Bang Bang You're Dead?

Question

Am I the only person who has seen this movie or what? It seems like anybody that I talk to about this movie have never heard nor seen it before. It was definatly one of my favorite movies, I wonder why nobody has seen it. If you have seen it, don't you agree that it was a wonderful movie?

It's a movie about a high school where the main character (Trevor) threatens to blow up the school football team and the next year he comes back to school and is bullied. He is in a school play that is about a kid bringing a gun to school. He becomes friends with a group of outcasts at school and soon the group decides they are going to bring guns to school. Trevor isn't going to stop them at first but then stops them and is the hero. Bad explanation, I know, but it is sort of like that.

For the most part it's a tale of a kid, Trevor, who gets picked on a lot a school. Not as much as he used to, because the year before he called in a phony bomb threat complete with a working bomb (minus anything that would actually explode). Because of this parents and teachers are afraid of him, and kids generally avoid him except for a group of outcasts called the "Trogs". As violence by the Jocks against the Trogs escalates, Trevor is the suspect for anything gone wrong, even though he didn't necessarily do anything. One teacher is willing to give Trevor the benefit of the doubt and casts him in a highly contraversial play about, what else? School shootings. It all comes to a head as some other students create a plan to bring guns to school and kill everyone in the cafeteria. Written by Lady Lamia

Answer 1

I saw this movie about a year or so ago. I too thought it was very well done, and very thought provoking. I also thought that it has been fairly underrated and underpublicized. I think it sheds well-needed light onto the harmful culture of bullying and hazing in high schools, and the effect that it can have on sensitive teens. For those who have been victims of bullying, it also shows an alternative way of speaking out (i.e. the play that the lead character participates in) instead of propagating more violence. The reason it probably never made a big splash is a lack of "A list" actors/actresses - though I frankly am a fan of both Tom Cavanagh and Janel Moloney.

Answer 2

It's a very good movie.It is a prime example of the cycles of physical and psychological harm that make bullies out of kids who don't have (or at least don't think they have) the strength to break such cycles I think anyone who works or wants to work a teacher should watch it, because it really captures the anguish of being caught up in the afore mentioned cycle.

Answer 3

I didn't see it.

Answer 4

The title sounds familiar but I can't remember what it was about. By the way, I can't remember alot of things!

Answer 5

that's a movie