Bully: Go to the Movies. Save a Life
You need to go to see the movie Bully.
You need to fill up the minivan, the truck, the car, the bus, walk, run, and just go to see the movie Bully.
You need to take your kids and your grand-kids and your nieces and nephews. You need to take the church groups and the Little League team and the chess club and the Gay-Straight Alliance club and the scout troop. You need to go if you’re a teacher or a parent or a coach or bus driver.
You need to go. It’s that important. Really. That important.
The movie will be one of the most wrenching, unsettling, powerful, important films you may ever see. The language in the movie is strong language. It is the language of hate. The situations are disturbing and not a manufactured creature of Hollywood.
The video is real made by an almost invisible photographer who simply follows the children and the adults in their lives with a small camera, capturing what is too often hidden.
Bully is game changing in the way we think about and act on childhood bullying. What changes is the belief that bullying is simply a case of Kids Will Be Kids. Children are dying, and this movie tells the truth we
You need to fill up the minivan, the truck, the car, the bus, walk, run, and just go to see the movie Bully.
You need to take your kids and your grand-kids and your nieces and nephews. You need to take the church groups and the Little League team and the chess club and the Gay-Straight Alliance club and the scout troop. You need to go if you’re a teacher or a parent or a coach or bus driver.
You need to go. It’s that important. Really. That important.
The movie will be one of the most wrenching, unsettling, powerful, important films you may ever see. The language in the movie is strong language. It is the language of hate. The situations are disturbing and not a manufactured creature of Hollywood.
The video is real made by an almost invisible photographer who simply follows the children and the adults in their lives with a small camera, capturing what is too often hidden.
Bully is game changing in the way we think about and act on childhood bullying. What changes is the belief that bullying is simply a case of Kids Will Be Kids. Children are dying, and this movie tells the truth we
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