opinion fits here -- tedious with the emphasis on himself. Their perspective plus stock footage of other boys doesn't really illuminate much. You needed "Dick" to lay it all out, b/c you know he didn't forget a thing. And I don't know how it got nominated unless the field was extremely thin.
shareGlad someone else commented on this movie.
I saw this on the HBOmax lineup and carefully decided to take a look at it.
It's kind of nauseating how someone can make a movie about something like this and presumably in some way profit from it.
It was hard to watch, but I agree about what the teacher said, the whole class were animals.
I am not sure I can watch the whole thing. Did they make any effort to get Dick's input, because, yeah, I bet he remembers the whole thing, and what if he had real major problems in life, or even killed himself or something.
Yes, they acted like animals, but I was referring to the other comment from the teacher, about his film being "tedious." I'm sure the intended climax was to have Dick appear at the end, but he ghosted them after initially being in touch, and I was happy that he did. Instead, he wrote Dick an apology letter, to which he didn't respond. So, "I'm sorry" was the big climax.
But docs are no different in the attempt to profit financially or from prestige. It's always as much about theater as any issue they're exploring. They all lie to be more entertaining. They all add/subtract from reality to make the piece more compelling.
Also, I think most of the class had to be lying in their recollections. They all remember this mob surrounding Dick, but most of them talk as if they observed at a distance rather than participated. If that were true, there could not have been enough kids to make a mob. Most remembrance seemed to imply, "The others did this to him, but not me."
Could you guys explain the bullying incident in this documentary? I do not have HBO. Was the incident ethnic in any way? What did the guy who was bullied behave like and what did the bully actually behave like? What was the specific ethnicity of the class of animals?
shareJewish victim, Jewish bullies, Jewish teacher -- in a Jewish school in Brooklyn. And no, the incident wasn't ethnic. It was a kid who happened to be a little different, and that made him an easy target. A silly thing based on kids with the same first name blew up into an ugly incident. A pack of kids romping on one, with the premise being that there's something innate in kids that makes them sniff out and attack what they sense is weakness in a way adults don't understand.
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