Movie Analysis Movie Cyberbully - 1062 Words

For my developmental paper, I chose the movie Cyberbully. The movies main character is Taylor Hillridge who is a teenage girl who lives at home with her mother and younger brother. For her 17th birthday, her mother gives her a laptop. Shortly after, her crush, Scott, asks her to the school dance approaching and she says yes. Her best friend Samantha is happy for her, But Samantha doesn’t like Scott because her and his friend dated and she ended up getting dumped by him. Once Taylor joins a social website named Cliquesters, Things start to get difficult. Students at school started to write mean comments about her and she starts to have issues at school. While on social media, Taylor meets a new guy named James online and thinks he is just†¦show more content†¦Taylor finds out about what Samantha is going through this and tells her about her support group she’s in and forgives Samantha for everything, fixing their friendship. After everything, Taylor, Samantha, Cheyenne, Caleb, and Scott all stand up against the school bully Lindsay and Other classmates witnessing Taylor standing up and realize how bullying is terrible, and antagonize Lindsay for her abuse toward Taylor and whoever else she may have bullied. Most adults can remember being teased or bullied when they were younger. It may be regarded as a regular part of growing up, but research has shown that bullying has far-reaching negative effects on adolescents. This all-too-common experience can lead to serious problems for young people at a critical time in their development, including poor mental health and dropping out of school. Bullying can involve direct attacks, hitting, threatening or intimidating, maliciously teasing and taunting, name-calling, making sexual remarks, sexual assault, and stealing or damaging belongings. Bullying can also involve the subtler, indirect attacks of rumor-mongering or encouraging others to snub someone. New technology, such as text messaging, instant messaging, social networking websites, and the easy filming and online posting of videos, has introduced a new form of intimidation, cyberbullying, which is widespread on the Internet. The life stage portrayed in the movie Cyberbully is adolescence. The movie itself takesShow MoreRelatedImplementing Bullying Awareness Programs: A Bright Change for the Future1740 Words   |  7 Pagesto look that person in the eye, a cowardly action. Also, in cyberbullying it is usually done by more than one person. In the 2011 TV movie Cyberbully, seventeen year old Taylor Hillridge began to be cyberbullied by many students at her school after one began. Its usually done in groups of people, and has the ability to have serious consequences. Later in the movie, Taylor went on to attempt and take her own life because of the constant harassment and neglegance. Although this was not a true story