This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A documentary about bullying in school. It deals with some very delicate issues. Some stuff simply makes you want to punch those bullies, or the teachers/officers/principal who let this happen - they can easily stop the bullying (by punishing them), but instead they do nothing.The film shows you how far the results can go - up the the point of little kids killings themselves. At one point I told myself that someone like that, who is being bulled for years, can crack and commit a mass murder - and then will be seen as a monster (actually, a similar case like that is discussed in the film).I have no idea how the filmmaker managed to get some of his footage - it doesn't look like a candid camera, so maybe the bullies simply don't care being filmed bullying? Amazing.The cinematography is pretty annoying - the filmmaker used a very short length of field and the image is constantly getting in and out of focus. But that's a technical issue.I highly recommend watching this important documentary.

May contain spoilers.This was a movie/documentary/running commentary on bullying. Many issues were NEVER addressed.I was bullied as a kid, so I can totally identify with these kids. This "movie" (for lack of a better term) was made by autism speaks.I am on the Autism Spectrum. First let me say, that autism speaks DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME! I have several issues with the organisation, not the least is the fact that there is NO one with Autism/Aspergers on the board of directors for this organisation.While autismspeaks is "responsible" for the movie, it completely misses the elephant in the room. Autism/Aspergers. If you purport to make a movie about being Autistic and the subsequent bullying, then it only seems reasonable that at some juncture, the issue(s) of the Autism is discussed. Wrong! A lot of the playground bullying I experienced as a child, WAS indeed related to Aspergers. I still struggle with relationships in my 6th decade on this rotating ball of boredom. Yet, they never discuss that.You cannot in good conscious, remove the causation factour in the bullying. Being Autistic sucks at times. But it also is responsible for my excellent computer programming skills.If you are autismspeaks, and you are making a film about bullying, then you need to address the cause. Autism. Once again the organisation fails to properly represent those of us on the spectrum.Yes -- this film deserves an F-.Wayno

'Bully' is a depressing viewing experience. It's not just the frustration and grief of the victims' parents, or the reflexive meanness of these kids' tormentors, or the detestable apathy of teachers and school officials--it's the whole picture of moral coarseness, sloth, stupidity, and degradation. The U.S. is not tops in bullying worldwide--we're actually right in the middle of the rankings, between the worst behaved (i.e., most brutal) societies of eastern Europe and the best behaved, in northern Europe. Cold comfort. This documentary is a revealing glimpse, not just of bullying, but of a culture that's impoverished in every way imaginable. If this society were economically and politically just, had a preponderance of decent schools, good jobs, loving families, and happy, empowered people, there would still be bullying but suffice to say, it would be radically diminished. Bullying is not just "human nature"; it stems from real conditions of oppression, ignorance, and neglect--an ugly symptom of the alienation of lonely, angry kids, turned outward, upon the weak and vulnerable. William Blake put it well: "Cruelty has a human heart."

Today kids are killing themselves and each other at an alarming rate. The one thing all these cases seem to have in common is bullying. There was bullying when I was a kid, but 3 PM meant the end of the trouble. We had the rest of the day, the weekend, and the summer to recover. The advent of social media and cell phones has made the respite obsolete, as now, bullies can torture their victims 24/7. Bully is an award winning documentary that looks at the problems of bullying and shows the effects it has on children's lives. What I like about this film is that it showed a whole group of students from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds. What I took away is that anyone who is even slightly different in anyway, could be a target. What I didn't like was the solutions the film offers. Their solution is to tell someone and to stand up for kids you see being bullied, but anyone who has been bullied will tell you that those are not good ideas. Often times telling someone will anger the bully and make it worse, and as for standing up for other kids, often times that makes someone who wasn't previous bullied, a target. I think the answer is two-fold, in that first, parents need to tell their kids, from a very earlier age, that being unique, different, and even weird are admirable qualities in a person. I also believe the schools need to be tougher, because honestly, does anyone really think that giving a bully detention, telling them they're not nice, and that their hurting other kids really does anything? I think bullies need a taste of their own medicine, to feel those powerful emotions for even for just one day. You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you don't really know what something is like until you've experienced it for yourself.