Paola Flores

Its not the most enjoyable movie. It’s not exactly funny. When you laugh you’re laughing at awkwardness. The characters lack development. Kayla hardly laughs even at the end when she’s feeling better. Even depressed people laugh more than she does. She was kind of a dull character. The only time she had emotion was when she was angry with her dad for absolutely no reason. She was so awful to him. And he was honestly a horrible father because, as he said, he did NOTHING! He let her do whatever the hell she wanted. And that never changed. He continued to be passive. He was supportive and very nice, but he was TOO nice. BUT even though the movie wasn’t the MOST entertaining, most likely it was because it isn’t over dramatized like other movies. The movie was VERY REALISTIC! Some of you are saying it’s completelt unrealistic and if you want to believe that, then it’s good for you that your middle school experience wasn’t like this, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t like this for others. Whether you want to accept it or not, the movie is VERY REALISTIC and brings up very important issues. If you don’t want to accept that phone addiction is a problem, then you’re just in denial. Maybe you don’t have it and your kid doesn’t have it but A LOT OF PEOPLE DO and it’s an INCREASING problem. Maybe you don’t think middle school pressures kids about sex BUT IN SOME SCHOOLS IT DOES! This Movie Is So Real And if it moves slow that’s cuz all of it was in the span of about one week. How many movie worthy things happen to you in one week? Does every movie have to be entertaining you the whole time? Why don’t you just sit back and make it through this movie. It will be hard trust me I watched it but you will learn something and it can be a good teaching moment for middle schoolers. Example: If someone wants you to do something you’re uncomfortable with, like something sexual, you don’t have to! You don’t owe them your body and you don’t owe them pleasure. And people will try to manipulate you to get you to do these things like that. They will try to make you feel bad so that you do it, so be aware of that and DONT APOLOGIZE for saying no, like Kayla did. You did nothing wrong by saying no. This is a sad situation but it is reality, and yes even in middle school it is reality for some. Edit: I’m 20 years old if you’re wondering. Middle school was a while ago for me but it was still similar to this and I still have family members in middle school who relate a lot to the movie.