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A strong film about bullying in schools. A denunciation of what is happening more and more in Italian schools, where bullying is becoming a trend to impose the ideas of some on the majority. The director has been able to describe this phenomenon not with a documentary but with a feature film, with actors who have acted in a very natural way, making the spectator perceive this sad reality. An intense film that transmits emotions, which pushes us to rebel to maintain our freedom to exist and to carry forward our ideas beyond what others want to impose on us. The protagonist - excellent interpretation of Elisabetta Mercadante - struggles to affirm her thirst for freedom from the conditioning of society. She wants to be and feel free, even if this will bring her great suffering. The film is also a complaint against the institutions, which sometimes, as in this film, accuse the victim and his parents of not having protected the minor daughter, so the victim's protagonist becomes a scapegoat, and the parents with her. Excellent interpretation of the protagonist's mother's interpreter: Flora Febraro. But all the very good actors should be mentioned, even those who have tried for the first time in the cinema. The director Davide Guida demonstrates, with this film made at no cost, that you can make good films even with few means, when you do it "with passion". It recalls a little bit of the first films of neo-realism, like those of Vittorio De Sica ("Bicycle Thieves") even though the environment is not post-war misery but the misery of the lives of many, who obey the bullies for fear of being trampled. Excellent direction, excellent actors, excellent shots, a very good job of independent cinema.