Review of A Girl Like Her (2015) by Scottgun00 — 03 Jun 2016

Well, here it is even though you would never have thunk it possible: A modern, anti-bullying version of Refer Madness. Between the unlikely things people would say knowing full well the camera is rolling and the lousy emo warbler music, we get a film that takes a serious subject and turns it into easily-dismissed after-school special.

The movie however does accidently raise a point the makers probably wouldn't care for: when the faculty are having a public forum with the parents and the parents ask what the school is doing to prevent bullying, the administration hems and haws.

You will never hear anyone say "nothing that will actually work" even though that is the correct answer. It helps to think of school like a prison. All the inmates are fully trained in and have mastered the times and places the guards aren't looking.

So instead what we see today is anti-bullying theater full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.