That was the point, though, I think. It’s a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that
Maybe.
I’d like to think that.
But it seems a rather generous, to me.
It would need to spend more time on flashbacks for that. Show us more about how shitty kids were to her. Show us her parents were always too busy. Really hammer in the idea that her life was painful and lonley. Then, when we see nobody today cares to even try understand any of that, it would mean more.
But all it gives is one breif scene with a girl shoulder bumping her between classes. That little, feels like it was added as a small justification for herself. Not something that would make it understandable by most people.
That was the point, though, I think. It’s a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that
Maybe.
I’d like to think that.
But it seems a rather generous, to me.
It would need to spend more time on flashbacks for that. Show us more about how shitty kids were to her. Show us her parents were always too busy. Really hammer in the idea that her life was painful and lonley. Then, when we see nobody today cares to even try understand any of that, it would mean more.
But all it gives is one breif scene with a girl shoulder bumping her between classes. That little, feels like it was added as a small justification for herself. Not something that would make it understandable by most people.