Bully the Movie: Essay Example

Do you ever feel like no one will listen to you? Even if you try to tell them the truth. For young kids Alex, Ja’Maya, and Kelby this has become one of the largest problems they have ever faced in their innocent lives. In the film Bully a heart wrenching tone is established by writer and director Lee Hirsch through the use of childhood flashbacks, and intense pathos to prove that bullying is a major problem all around the United States. This film begins with the story of Tyler Long who tragically took his own life after months of intense bullying in school. His father appears and begins to talk with images of home movies of Tyler on the screen. It was a time for Tyler when life was simple and people did not get beat up and taunted just for going to school. Innocence was a refuge for him, and his family soon realized this when they found his lifeless body hanging in that closet. Tyler knew he was being bullied but there was nothing he felt he could do about It any longer. Who was going to listen to his pleas for help? Certainly not anyone around him and defiantly not the school that has harbored his bullying all this time. After his death his family fought the school board for justice of what happened to their son. To this day they are still fighting against the terrors of bullying, a nationwide epidemic. Throughout the film three students are chronicled in the life they face of bullying. One student Ja’Maya began getting bullied on the school bus by other kids. Soon it became too much for her and she pulled a gun on her fellow students not with the intention to fire it but to scare the kids out of harassing her. Unfortunately this only made matters worse. For myself this story made me angry and it made me very sad for the young girl. When the sheriff came on screen and said “This girl had no right to do what she did unless she was physically getting the crap beat out of her every day on that bus” I wanted to beat the crap out of him. She wanted nothing more