nammage I was bullied from four years old until I was 17 years old. The only reason it stopped was because I grew to be 6'4" and weighed 220 lbs. I contemplated suicide at 10 or 11 years old because of the bullying I received. I grew up in a small town on the outskirts of a big city. I wasn't a bad looking kid, and I was athletic but stopped playing sports in Junior High. It was difficult playing sports with your tormentors also on the team. I started fighting back physically when I was 14. Probably because I was 6'1" at 14, and taller and bigger than everyone else. Why was I bullied? I was sensitive which to my bullies equated to me being a homosexual. I am not gay. Never was but they were taught that sensitive boys are gay, apparently. And being gay in a small town with a Christian church on every corner (literally) teaching the sins of everything they disagree with and they should fight against; that's their excuse for spreading their beliefs. At least where I grew up. Also, I lived in a primary white town where the majority of whites were racists. I wasn't racist. Also, another reason as to why I was bullied and not just by other kids but adults, too. It was worse from adults because they were the ones I should have been able to go to but wasn't. I have Dyscalculia. They barely even knew what dyslexia was where I grew up. All I ever heard was "You're not trying hard enough". Even though I excelled in other subjects they took me out of those classes and put me into a "special" class for unruly children who just couldn't behave. Since I wasn't trying hard enough in math that equated to me being "unruly". Junior High was a bit different: they just didn't care. I skipped three months of eighth grade and still was passed onto the next grade. The educational system I went through produced an education not worth learning, anyway.I do have happy memories of my childhood. Those days that were good, I remember them. The problem with films like this is they only show one side of the person. Oh, they did add a girl role, a love interest, but while I had those in my youth, it wasn't a catalyst if they didn't work out. I found that to be nonsense. Especially since she wasn't an integral part of my life. Also, a kid shooting up a school, well...he must be mentally ill, like schizophrenic as the kid in this obviously is. I think society is schizophrenic. I mean it preaches good morals yet at the same time promotes and instigates hatred of others different than the majority. I survived, if one calls it survival. I don't show much affection toward others unless in private. I don't like to be touched, by anyone, and if I allow it I have to give one consent to do so. I remember recently last year a cousin of mine died and one of our aunts' came up to hug me and I stepped back. And everyone is looking at me in dusgust; I'm the bad guy even though she and everyone else knows I don't like to be touched; especially hugged. I've only hugged my mother once in my adult life. We're seen as the bad guy; and some of us turn out that way but we're all not bad. The mentality of "No one gave me a break so why should I give you one?" but we're not all like that. Some of us actually grow up to talk about, share, and even be productive but films like this just say that the person must have been mentally ill. Or, it was his poor upbringing, or his mother and/or father had something to do with it, or it was this one particular kid at school...etc., etc., I had more than one childhood bully, and some of them were adults; some were well respected in the community. The people who don't recognize who the bully is: it's probably them. Even those standing on the sidelines and doing nothing: that's a type of bullying.While, fictionally speaking, this film was good for what it was, I felt it was just one of those films about someone who read about bullying and then took the bullies perspective rather than the one being bullied.I wonder if the makers of films like this were one of three people growing up: 1. The bullied 2. The bully or 3. The ones who watched from the sidelines and did nothing? I'm thinking the latter.

maat-33737 A strong story that touches some very delicate and striking points: the fragility of children and how something, like the bullying, can trigger a terrible action when it is combined with a mental impairment in progress.While it is true that the bullying is not the cause of the final action in the film, this is largely a catalyst and, in the end, what turns out to be the trigger is a heartbreak. But bullying and a broken heart is not enough to turn you into a killer, there is something deeper in the mind. A childhood with huge emotional conflicts; as underestimation, frustration, anger and helplessness and loneliness, can lead a fragile person, and with a broken psyche, to a total detachment to others with a fatal outcome.In the end, the vulnerability of the girl (the character portrayed by Britt Robertson) and the memory of having acted unfairly and without any real motivation in its infancy, make him reassess their actions and, fortunately for her, gives to policemen enough time to act and finish the attack. That is why, we can see the final scene where he, as a child, is seen releasing the rabbit instead of kill it. It is an allegory about redemption you get when you forgive someone innocent (the "White Rabbit" is the helpless girl). And the rabbit in his mind, is the representation of his own guilt, and the inner voice who, at the end, says him that it's time to leave, the indication that he is dying and this is the end... without being able to fix the things that he has made.

Tss5078 Coming of Age films are among my favorite types of movies, but if you're a fan of the genre, you know there are often a lot of strange stories out there, perhaps none stranger than White Rabbit. This film follows Harlon Mckay (Nick Krause), who is a very strange kid, one that is often bullied. Harlon is very easily influenced by other people, as is evident by the scenes with his co-stars. When he's with his best friend, whose immature, they do kid things, and when he meets a bad girl, who doesn't stay in on place very long, Harlon gets into some trouble himself. There's no doubt that Harlon is strange, but so are the circumstances surrounding him. Newcomer Nick Krause plays the troubled lead and he really was terrific. In ninety minutes, this kid must of changed personalities a dozen times, and all of them were tremendous. White Rabbit is very weird, a little creepy, and nothing special until a shocking ending changes everything. Sometimes how you see a film can be changed by an ending that just blows the mind and answers a million questions at once. That is what happens here, and that is the only reason I recommend watching this film. As I've been saying, it's really strange and some parts are hard to sit through, but in the end, you'll be left thinking about what you just saw and wondering about each and every scene. Honestly, it's the kind of film you really need to see more than once if you're hoping to catch everything.

paolabrambi The story of a terribly introverted boy who lives mostly in his head,since reality is too hard for him. He has really too few things that made his life barely acceptable, and he loses them one after the other. He is left with his distressing memories and his loneliness; his only escape valve- his comics- are taken away from him by a a father that try too late to regain his parental function. The settings perfectly highlight Harlon's life and falling into desolation. Especially great scenes were shot at the abandoned warehouse: a rusty, run-down and deserted place where Harlon in some way can be himself and can be together with his newborn love. To be watched.