" In general, we are faced with a general unwillingness to understand us. On the part of the parents, the kids, the college administration, I was just shocked. Your father and I decided I had to talk. For you. For others.” Nora Freiss.
In the last six months or a year, there have been quite a few projects on suicides, including Christine, 13 Reasons Why, and others. Suicide is a rather burning topic not only for filmmakers, but for all people, especially when it is a child suicide.
What in a person’s life can be the worst? What could be worse than meeting a serial killer in a dark alley? What could be worse than death in a horrific terrorist attack?
I'll tell you kids.
Yes, that's right, ordinary children, our children! What makes them kill themselves? Why do they become monsters? Why is school increasingly turning from the most beautiful time in a person’s life to almost a prison? Millennials of evolution, centuries of revolutions, decades of social movements in support of human rights, all to become free, equal and social, for what purpose, what did they lead? To the fact that children like wild animals flock and hunt down their own kind, not because someone is worse or better, but simply because they wanted to!
You can't hide from them anymore, you can't hide under Mom's warm wing. They're everywhere, at school, even in your home via cell phone and the Internet. One little envy, one little evil word, one little evil look, and the mechanism of annihilation is already set in motion, wrapped in ridicule, pokes, and kicks. We, as parents, put weapons in the hands of our children, as usual, without suspecting or thinking about the bad. The worst part is that it's not a gun, not a knife, not a bomb, it's a small phone. We hide ourselves from them behind the same phones, jobs, daily worries. Not wanting to see, hear or know. We used to think that “our” life only emerges when school is over, but the cruel truth is that children often live their own “secret” lives that parents don’t even know about. Too often, parents and school act like divorced spouses, trying to pin the responsibility on another, and the child suffers as always. The story of Marion, her family, her mother, is certainly striking with cruelty, coldness, cynicism. From the ridicule and caustic remarks of classmates, to almost sexual aggression from classmates, in just six months they managed to humiliate, break, trample the delicate vulnerable girl. One can only imagine what humiliations Marion endured day by day, endured steadfastly, but still not to the end. Marion will always be 13 now, but let her story allow other children to grow up.
10 out of 10