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Going well until the end.


Damned mandatory happy ending to show that 'bullies don't win'.

Until that point it was actually quite good and certainly different from most other stuff on TV.

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Yeah, I really liked it overall, but the ending was a little bit disappointing seeing as we never found out who the hacker was.

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It's more of a realistic situation though, as many Hackers/Trolls are never caught.

Don't think I don't understand loyalty just because I have no one left to be loyal to.

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The hacker was most probably that Steerpike

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Thank you, Captain Obvious! ;D

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I was glad we never found out. Early on I was thinking it's a shame they will probably reveal who it is in the end, as it really doesn't matter, and then the main character says exactly that at the end. I was really happy with it.

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I quite liked the ending, to be honest. I mean, it was much more preferable than to have watched Casey overdose rather than have those pictures posted online. In reality, at the end of the day, the pictures were bad but them being posted isn't the end of the world. It might make things difficult for the rest of the time at school or a certain period of time but, it would've been forgotten in the end.

And the fact we never found out who the hacker was is a lot more realistic than if we had, to be honest. As someone rightly replied with, most trolls, etc online are anonymous and never caught. And, in this situation, it seems unlikely that the hacker actually knew Casey personally.

After the film, you can probably assume Casey either went to the police or somehow managed to track down who bluepike was anyway.

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See but I thought her overdosing was the better end. It has a far more hard hitting message about bullying that way.

Yes whilst it was sad the other girl had been driven to suicide, we didn't really know her and that mad world cards video wasn't enough. Casie though; we'd watched her realisation of who she was and what she'd done. To end with her overdose too....even the bully can be driven to end it all.

Plus the cycle doesn't end that way, maybe the next target is one of the people who made fun of Casie online.

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But I think the better message was Casey deciding not to give the hacker the power to take her own life, she realised her own wrongdoings and the affect that her comments had had on others and she learnt a valuable lesson from Jennifer Li's own tragic story, that her own life shouldn't be marred by the hate and vitriol of strangers and that she had many things that mattered more to her primarily her best friend and her parents, The only power that her tormentor had was her nude pics, but once Casey decided not to care about what was to be done with them, all power was stripped away.

The positive thing that the ending to "Cyberbully" preached was that there is a light at the end of the tunnel after such an ordeal, when Casey called out for her Dad and presumably told him the whole thing it may have reached out to someone watching whowho in turn might've done the same to their parents.

Anything that encourages people regardless of whether they themselves have perpetrated online abuse or been at the receiving end of it, in my eyes is a good thing.

Don't think I don't understand loyalty just because I have no one left to be loyal to.

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I hadn't thought of it that way, for people watching who may be victims themselves. Yeah considering the topic I agree this was a better end now looking at it that way.

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Really? Cause I read she hung herself!

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