Bullied to Death (2016)

• 72%
• 2016
• Giovanni Coda

The movie is centered on the life of a 14-year-old boy who commits in a careless, inadequate society which is confused, cruel, and unable to solve the increasing violence that deviates towards pathology especially when gender-related matters are at stake. The movie is without a precise place identification, thus representing all the possible places where these tragedies can happen. Actually, the whole world represents the ideal stage to set the film. Bullied to Death is an independent Italian-American Feature Film, aimed at developing new communication routes intertwining cinema, photography and performing arts and striking an emotional chord with the audience. It is a story of solitude and denied redemption. The director adopts atypical narrative schemes while representing an overall universality. He uses different languages and genres, thus creating a sensorial, yet not didactic, movie that can be experienced through our visual senses. Thanks to the universality of the emotions experienced in the events pertaining to the young boy, the director has set the story in an undefined space-time frame, thus working with actors/performers who speak alternately as the voice-over.