Best movie ever!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This movie showed how it really feels to be the victim and the bully. Hoping this would change how some people treat other people. Superb on how emotions were shown as they really suffered something like that. Most of us have... One of the movies that will never be forgotten. From beginning til the end it felt so real that as if I was there as well. 10/10 for everything.

I came across this film just by accident on Netflix and decided to watch it not really expecting or sure what it was about. However,I felt it was truly eye opening how bullying can affect young people today and how over looked it can be due to cliques and the norms in school. The different angles that it captured,not only Jessica but Avery too really showed the dark side and even though I can't say I feel sorry for Avery,I still understand her issues. The scenes at times got me choked up because you can only imagine what Jessica was going through that brought her to do such a sad thing. This needs to be shown and regonised more to show awareness of the affects and the aftermath of bullying. Must see!

This is the best bully drama I've seen. Instead of it being a generic bland story about unbelievable characters this film was beautifully directed and the actors truly make it a heart wrenching tale.Instead of focusing on the victim, is also dives further to discover the bullied and the bully, covering why bullies do what they do. Not since Breakfast Club has a film reminded its audience that there are often 2 victims in cases of bullying.But it also doesn't diminish the fear and horror of the effects of bullying, it truly makes your eyes tear each time you hear the doctor talk to the parents, each time her parents and Brian blame themselves, and remind victims of the consequences of suicide itself on their family and friends.

First of all I have to say that the performances of the young actors in this low budget production are pretty good, and they are absolutely capable of making you feel with them every step of the way.Secondly the POV shots are a good idea regarding the topic, letting the audience experience the real terror of a bully.Unfortunately that's about it for me when it comes to the positive things about this movie.To me shooting it as a fake documentary didn't give it enough emotional depth, as the flow of the story line, and especially the victim's story was interrupted too much. This way the educational (or awareness) part was pretty dominant, which is my real problem with this movie, because it clearly fails in this category.The movie portrays a stereotype of a bully that doesn't really reflect reality, but much more how bullying was received back in the day. Somenone from a troubled family, or with personal problems that copes with his or her frustration by bullying the victim. So kind of the classic "give me your lunch money", just on a higher level.Not only is bullying clearly in most all of the cases a social behavior, that has a lot of group dynamics involved, which means a terror on the level that leads to suicide attempts is very often the result of active bullying from several people or a larger group. But bullying is not necessarily connected to personal problems of the bully himself.I would even go as far as to say that the bully in the movie is not even a real bully, but would rather qualify as a psychopath, or someone with a personality disorder. She is almost obsessed with her victim, writing her hundreds of text massages online and via mobile, threatening to kill her, or suggesting her to kill herself multiple times, almost every day. That would be very unusual and alarming, and can never never be explained with some minor problems at home as in the movie, where the bully has a sudden crisis of conscience in the end, suggesting she is also just a troubled girl with the need for love.Also they obviously throw in online bullying, but fail to really address the problem. Text massages or mails can be avoided, you can get a new phone number or mail address. What we didn't see was online shaming and harassment, often in connection with social media, almost always, again, a group thing. Often sexual orientation of the victim is involved, often pictures and videos of victims are used.A whole movie from the perspective of the victim, no fake documentary, maybe with a lot of POV shots would have been better, showing how it comes to such a thing as a suicide attempt in more depth, in that case I wouldn't even have bothered so much with the educational part.