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mrtomtomman2000
CONTAINS SPOILERS10/10  3 years ago
**Such an emotional story with a beautiful message that we all need to hear**
Joe Bell is such an emotional story that I highly recommend everyone watching this as it really spreads across a key message. We first see that Jadin Bell was getting bullied for being gay as all he wants to do is get on in the world and the world to respect him for who he is. We see the impact that the bullying is taking on the whole family as shown in a particular scene where Joseph is concerned over what the kids are saying to Jadin, nevertheless Jadin is trying to stay strong by saying words cannot hurt me I am tougher than I look. Obviously we know that this is really getting to Jadin as all Jadin needed is support and people to speak up against these bullies before it was too late. Joseph and Jadin in this scene share a very deep emotional hug showing that the pain that they are both feeling about how Jadin is being bullied for his sexuality and being himself. You really feel it for the emotion that this is having especially by the facial expressions in both Joseph and Jadins faces. Throughout this film we see Joe walks across America in a self-reflecting journey in order to spread the word about the terrifying costs of bullying. Showing people that if we don’t speak up against bullying you can really be left in a catastrophic situation as the Bells were. Joe realises that he should have not cared so much about what other people thought, which we can see peoples negative comments about Jadin being his true self, therefore he wishes he would have just spoke up sooner instead of trying to avoid the situations as the comments and physical harassment was getting worse for Jadin. We see many flashbacks to what Jadin had to deal with, also seeing Jadin spirit leading Joe across this journey as Joe says to Lola on the phone. Overall I really found that Joe doing this in tribute for Jadin really touched so many lives and he really did dedicate everything to this as things are never the same again for Joe and his family. Please watch this film as it brings an emotional beautiful powerful message as there is plenty of good people in the world to speak up against bulling we should not tolerate it, therefore be more supportive to everyone especially our friends in the LGBTQ+ community as this is a daily struggle there really is not enough good people in the world. If you consider yourself to be a genuine good person please speak up and stand up against bullies as we should all stand together.
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Reply by mediacenterkodi
3 years ago
@mrtomtomman2000 you should add spoiler tags to the majority of this
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CinemaSerf
/10  2 years ago
Reid Miller is quite engaging here as the bullied gay youngster Jadin Bell. His time at school is torrid, and he seems unable to secure any help to protect him from the bigoted assholes he must face each day. His father (Mark Wahlberg) is supportive, but in a 'don't ask don't tell" sort of fashion, the appalling position also taken by the principal at his school. Eventually, the pressure all just proves too much and the young man takes his own life. This inspires his father to try to walk from their home to New York raising the issues of homophobia and bullying as he goes. Wahlberg's name is what will do the work here; his participation in highlighting these issues of both physical and psychological intimidation ought to resound with whomever watches this, reads about it, or sees any of his publicity blurb. As a piece of cinema, though, it's pretty mediocre. Barring a scene with the two leads doing a bit of a Lady Gaga routine, the drama and the acting are fairly sterile and it takes recourse to a few handsome, but cop-out, power ballads when the script runs out of anything meaningful to say. It's a shocking testament that this still goes on in 2022 in a nation that purports to be civilised - and though this film, in itself, is largely forgettable, let's hope the message isn't.
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