Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Cortechba Overrated

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Tss5078 Bang Bang You're Dead is a film based on the high school production by the same name and it is easily one of the most powerful and life-changing movie I've ever seen. This film is 11 years old and talks about bullying in schools, how it's a huge problem instead of harmless fun, and how it changes students lives forever. Some students become withdrawn, others depressed, some suicidal, and in the rare cases homicidal. This film follows a bullied student, named Trevor, who is on the edge of becoming all four when his drama teachers asks him to be in the play, Bang Bang You're Dead. It is a play inspired by Columbine, that takes place inside the mind of a school shooter, who is haunted by those he killed. This leads to the main point of this film, will the teacher and play save Trevor or push him over the edge? On a personal note, I was pretty small and got bullied at school, until I hit puberty. This is the first film that was actually able to express all the emotions I've had inside of me for so long. Trevor expresses every feeling and emotion that comes along with being a victim and feeling helpless. By the end of this film, I was crying like a baby. It is honestly one of the most powerful and important films I've ever seen and I only wish that someone would have shown it to me when I was in school.

hump_flump I rented this movie the other night, not knowing at all what the plot was about. All i knew was that it was a film with Ben Foster in it, and i figured from the title that it would be an action movie. Of course I was completely wrong, and after i finished the film i sat on my couch for 15 minutes completely dumbfounded and speechless. The way it portrayed the high school system was so realistic, it gave me the goosebumps. I went to high school in Tokyo Japan and the schools there are almost worse than what was portrayed in the movie. In the movie you just feel for Trevor so much, and the things he has to go thru. All in All i wouldn't say that this film was depressing. I think the ending was a triumphant tale about how love and compassion can change any heart, and bring people back to happiness. So don't watch it when you want to kick back and have some beers, but do see it when you want a life lesson. It will be worth your time!

Ze_Costa_7 Trash Can! Retard! Weirdo! Loser! Freak! Spazz! Pizza Face! Those are just some of the names that can change your life forever... and it all starts in high school!Bang Bang You're Dead, when you watch it you don't think that you're gonna like it... but you're gonna love it and it's gonna change your mind and your life!It just shows how mentally dangerous and disturbing High School really is and how mean kids can really be!To me, this movie is EXCELLENT, one of the best movies I've ever seen! It really changed me... I love it and every time I have the chance I watch it over and over and over again!Great cast, great plot, great play! Gotta love it!!!

stef_nijssen What Fast Times was to the 80s, Bang Bang may be to 2002. Entirely different films tone-wise, these two titles may, nevertheless, present each decade's primary concerns revealingly.Bang, Bang, You're Dead gets its title from a play of the same name. That play examines the conscience of a fictional high school boy who went on a killing rampage not dissimilar to the fairly recent all to real ones.Bang, Bang, the movie provides us with a reason to believe that the play is a necessary one. Trevor, the main character, seems to be (to have been) on the brink of the kind of meltdown that could lead to columbine type violence. We encounter Trevor in the middle of his story, as the previous year saw him in trouble for a threat of violence. As a result of this outburst, Trevor is looked upon with suspicion by almost all of the other members of his community. Instead of receiving support from those tasked with being concerned about his welfare, he instead is objectified into a certain kind of _character_ whose options are limited.Mr. Cavanagh gives us a fine performance of what is more or less his TV character, Ed, thrust into the well-meaning and perhaps wiser than the rest of the community, theatre teacher who believes in Trevor's fitness for high school. Despite the outrage of the community, he wants to cast Trevor as the lead character in the play Bang Bang, You're Dead. Unfortunately, the folks in the town only know the basic elements of the play, as is indicated by their systematic failure to correctly recite the title.A study of the tenuous connections that hold a community together, and how those connections can lead to tension that pushes the breaking point, Bang, Bang shows us that we are not always as free from responsibility of our outcasts as we might suppose.Where the film "Bully" gave us a fairly unsympathetic case of teenage power dynamics and the explosive results, Bang Bang takes an intensive (and realistic) look into the conditioning done within high school halls. In the present mood of paranoia about the threats from outside of US culture, it's important for us to see that even in what might seem to be the most protected of our inner sanctums, we may force some elements of ourselves into an almost violent desperation. That this could occur to a middle class white male in a most similarly raced and classed environment, hopefully gives us pause when we think about the marginalization we force on those further from the so-called center.