{"id":3891,"date":"2012-04-03T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sisterrose.wordpress.com\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2012-04-03T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:17:23","slug":"bully-will-break-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2012\/04\/bully-will-break-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"“Bully: will break your heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


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For Lent this year, my resolution was to look into the face of every person I encountered who was begging. If I could, I gave that person something, greeted them and said \u201cgood morning\u201d or \u201cgood afternoon.\u201d And I intentionally thought: \u201cThis is some mother\u2019s sweet baby.\u201d It makes it so much easier to love that person when you think of them as innocent and vulnerable children who gave joy to their parents before life set in.<\/p>\n

All I could think of when I was watching the documentary \u201cBully\u201d was that each of these bullied kids is some mother\u2019s sweet baby.<\/p>\n

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I went to see \u201cBully,\u201d which was filmed in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma during the 2009-2010 school year, thinking I would see a lot of physical violence and hear a lot of bad language. After all, the\u00a0MPAA<\/a>\u00a0gave the film a controversial \u201cR\u201d rating because of \u201cstrong violence, sexual content, drug use and language \u2013 all involving teens.\u201d The film\u2019s distributor, The Weinstein Company, decided to release the film without a rating, leaving it up to theaters \u2014 hence, parents \u2014 to decide to screen it or not.<\/p>\n

For the life of me, I don\u2019t recall seeing or hearing any \u201csexual content, drug use or strong violence.\u201d The few \u201cf-words\u201d came toward the beginning of the film, and then no more. Verbal threats from one bully were graphic and cruel, but explicit visuals? No. One teen girl is a lesbian; is this the \u201csexual content\u201d to which the MPAA refers? We see her with her girlfriend and other friends, but they are just hanging out. Why the MPAA says there is \u201cdrug use\u201d is beyond me; I did not see any.<\/p>\n

For the rest of Sr. Rose\u2019s review at the National Catholic Reporter\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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