{"id":3453,"date":"2016-06-19T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T12:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2024-01-27T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:38:19","slug":"bully-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Bully-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bully-2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Lee Hirsch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott\u2019s Review #419<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70181711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3454\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70181711-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70181711\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70181711-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70181711.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bully is an informative and topical 2011 documentary on the bullying problem that has plagued the United States in recent years and has thankfully received more attention as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, bullying has resulted in several suicides, which the documentary addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary\u00a0mainly deals with a handful of bullied students and tells their individual stories. Unfortunately, too often teachers and school administrators either do not take the issue seriously or attempt to squander the matter to avoid more attention, according to the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Bullying is a nationwide problem in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I only wish the producers had chosen to focus some attention on the actual bullies for accountability, but surprisingly they did not.<\/p>\n<p>This point was almost completely glossed over and only the victims were featured.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been interesting to hear the perspective from the bully&#8217;s standpoint. Do they have issues at home causing them to bully? Are they bullied by others?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of this flaw, Bully (2011) is a well-made documentary that should be seen by anyone with kids, especially all teachers and school administrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bully-2011 Director Lee Hirsch Scott\u2019s Review #419 Reviewed June 19, 2016 Grade: B+ Bully is an informative and topical 2011 documentary on the bullying problem that has plagued the United States in recent years and has thankfully received more attention as a result. Shockingly, bullying has resulted in several suicides, which the documentary addresses. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bully-2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,46,3326],"tags":[81,249,3327],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-films","category-documentaries","category-lee-hirsch","tag-2011-movie-reviews","tag-documentaries","tag-lee-hirsch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19885,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/19885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}