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I am not a movie critic, but I don't need to be to give this film 5 stars. As a twenty year educator and now a school counselor, I well-know there is a enough accuracy in this presentation that any condensing or exaggerating done by Hollywood is done for the purpose of getting this despicable message into a very narrow time limit, in order to educate as many people as possible. Regardless how different the story or the girls, the pain is the same. Consider, too, how much more painful for those young people who are not so pretty, not so athletic, not supported by a healthy family. As I watched this film just this last Saturday, I could not back up from it enough to judge the acting, for I had to exert all my efforts in not crying in front of the other seminar attendees.
In my childhood I was sister of the town "bad boy," and was a constant target for teasing and harassment, even though I was nothing at all like my brother. Cyber-bullying was not an issue for me, but had we had computers, I am certain the harassment would have included that venue. I wasn't pretty. I didn't wear nice clothes. A very nasty little girl in our class was the Queen Bee from 2nd grade clear through high school; and when it was just the two of us she was decent to me, but when her group was with her she was merciless. A new boy came in the 6th grade, and she decided he looked like a character from one of our literature pieces, so she nicknamed him "Icabod." I was one of a few who refused to call him that, but, a victim myself, I never had the courage to confront Queen Bee and her gang of heartless friends.
Had I experienced a more positive childhood I am certain my life would have been different. I am a mother and grandmother and my family is peopled with caring, intelligent folks, but it was a long hard journey to stop settling for whatever crumbs came my way. When young people are bullied they come to see themselves as unworthy, and enter into marriages that should not be, jobs that should not be, and lives that do not optimize their talents and gifts.
It isn't just girls who struggle with this. One of my sons was bullied by his former "best friend." On Sunday this boy was the upstanding Christian, but during the school week there were no limits to the pain he could inflict.
The foolish person who, in his/her narrow and shallow review, suggested that teasing is simply a manifestation of our right to "free speech" is incapable of empathy for the teenage psyche. OR, more likely, has lived as a bully and hasn't faced the trail of broken spirits s/he has behind.
Please watch this film and raise better people for a better world.
Odd Girl Out Overview
A MOTHER & HER DAUGHTER CONFRONT THE INTIMIDATION OF TEEN PEERPRESSURE & THE EMOTIONALLY BRUTALIZING SOCIAL RITUALS OF HIGH SCHOOL.
My daughter loved it! - M. Buttram - Alexandria, VA United States
My daughter & I watched this movie togehter and she loved it. We had recently watched the Chrissa movie, similar theme but much more in-touch with middle school-aged girls. Just be aware that there is a little bit of profanity, a few words that your daughter hears every day in middle school!
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