Abbie Chatfield
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Like that sort of makes it more interesting to me.
I don't think it's fully justified, just to be clear.
I'm not going, yeah, that makes it worth it.
But what you're saying where it's like the bullying doesn't seem that bad, I agree.
It's just kind of normal schoolyard, you know, clicky, oh, there's the popular girl and Zendaya is a bit, her character is a bit weird and a bit kooky and a bit of a loner and so she gets bullied because of it.
Yeah, and I think it's a really interesting commentary as well.
Obviously the whole point of it is this.
Yeah.
On the fact that it is so prevalent is the threshold for what constitutes bullying that is โ if you're a kid in high school and you're seeing all these kids do school shootings because they are being bullied, you then think that that's a justification for doing a school shooting.
Like it is a huge cultural issue.
to think that and the way that her character describes it is she's like, well, yeah, I was really badly bullied.
I was pushed into a puddle once and another time someone called me ugly or something or called me something about her looks.
Yeah.
And that obviously nothing justifies a school shooting or a shooting, but it's an interesting insight into there would be a lot of people who would
Who have thought about doing it.
And that's the question is, does a thought equal, are you as bad as someone who went through with it?
And now that I'm talking about it, I would dump Adam.
Now that I have this conversation, I'm going, hang on actually, because that's really fucking psycho.
Yeah.
Like I think the level that she went to, it's not just like I thought about it.