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Don't get why some people find this movie funny...

posted 10 years ago by HalfBloodPrincess1967
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It's not! Granted, it's been a long time since I saw it, but many things are disturbing about this movie, not in a gory horror movie way, but I was a Dawn in middle school, so I totally feel her pain, and have never watched this movie since. I had a group of boys that targeted me a lot, and treated me like Dawn was treated. I almost fell down a flight of stairs because of those boys, and I'm sure that if I had been alone with them somewhere long enough, they would have tried something sexual. Are kids so desensitized, that they find bullying funny?

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[–] heather-nicole-t-ht 9 years ago

I agree. I actually thought this movie was pretty damned disturbing. People are *beep*

[–] paula-gein 9 years ago

Comedy is subjective. That said, Todd Solondz has always said his intent is to make black comedies. So if you don't find it funny and if you have to bad mouth people who do, maybe you just don't get it.

It rubs the butter on it's skin, y'all.

[–] TheHungryAndAngryShow 8 years ago

It is a dark dark BLACK comedy in the truest sense of the word. This movie is not Hollywood, not trying to teach you anything, not trying to make anyone better in the film. It is a slice of someone's crap life that is thrown in front of you. You can either throw up or laugh at the ridiculousness of it, some of us choose to laugh.

[–] Roddenhyzer 8 years ago

I find it pretty ignorant (not to say arrogant) to assume that only "desensitized kids" could possibly find this funny. For some people, laughing at this movie's caricatured bullying and human misery may very well be a means for coping with their own traumatic past.

[–] mls4182 8 years ago

I saw your post after I posted. Well put!

[–] mls4182 8 years ago

It is a dark comedy. Sometimes laughing at awful things can help you get over the past.

I think the point of this movie is to show most people go through an awkward phase and no one understands.

[–] ORGaSMOTRON 8 years ago

Thank God you posted, you're literally the only person who gave the kind of answer that I, were I the OP, would find acceptable.

This movie is pretty dark and mean, but it's also funny and cute. I had a horrible time in school (overall; I had some great times too) and a lot of people do. It's a cautionary tale of sorts that teaches us that once you reach adulthood, or even just your late teens/early twenties, the pains of your adolescence don't have to have meant anything. What I took from the film was that, because Dawn was able to keep it together in spite of all the terrible things she'd put up with, she was going to be a better, stronger person for it :)

[–] mls4182 8 years ago

You are probably a better and more interesting person because of what you went through. Bullying comes from insecurity and bitterness and often times the bull is in fact jealous of their target.

If you look back you will probably realize this and that those who were kind to you had it together while those who were cruel were blinded with unhappiness and frustration. Their abuse was about THEM, not YOU.

[–] super-staff 7 years ago

It's a cautionary tale of sorts that teaches us that once you reach adulthood, or even just your late teens/early twenties, the pains of your adolescence don't have to have meant anything.

Except...In Palindromes, it's revealed Dawn killed herself due to having had a lonely, crappy life. In the alternate 'take', Weiner Dog, Dawn is still an outcast and it's obvious her childhood did scar her.

[–] LadyLovie 7 years ago

took the sting out of the pain of getting bullied.

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