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Voice #1: A kid in a cage
Voice #2: In a zoo of misfits
Voice #3: Even until your release
Voice #1: When you’re a stooped-- --
Voice #2: Broken-- --
Voice #3: Bitter and old
Voice #1: Full of scars
Voice #2: Scars on body and mind
Voice #3: Friendless
Voice #1: Hopeless
Voice #2: Mindless
Voice #3: Soul-less
Voice #1: So you make your face a mask
Voice #2: A mask that hides your face
Voice #3: A face that hides the pain
Voice #1: A pain that eats your heartVoice #2: A heart nobody knows
Synopsis
Alexis Wittenberg has it all. She is a straight A student, a proud prefect, rich, girlfriend to the school jock and a star among her school friends. The only problem is that she is also a bully. Pretty, popular, and well-adjusted, Alexis finds that her life turns upside down when a familiar face becomes the new girl at their school. We soon find that Alexis hides and suffers from a great depression beneath a mask she creates to conceal her true personality. She buries her deepest sorrows and feels helplessness and loneliness. Adding to the burden, she is endlessly haunted by her inner demons, voices in her head that mock and ridicule her everyday. Alexis is forced to relive her painful childhood memories all over again when she realizes that the new girl was the girl who bullied her in elementary school. Alexis is infuriated and seeks to take revenge on the girl who destroyed her childhood life. But when a prank goes too far, Alexis feels she is losing everything and sets on a path of self-destruction. She is brought to the point where she would do anything to eliminate her opponent from her life, including suicide. Finally her two friends and teacher rescue her from herself and explain that the new girl was not the person who bullied her in the past. Alexis feels great remorse and sadness but soon learns to open up to her friends and teacher. The help which she greatly needed was always just right in front of her, she only needed to ask for it.
Theme
Recent occurrences of bullying have been given increasing amounts of attention due to the surprising and sometimes violent results. However, bullying is not only limited to male students. Research has shown that girl bullies are in fact increasing. Girls are just as aggressive as boys, but they act out in much more subtle ways. In our culture, girls are taught to be nice, which means not being in conflict, and being everyone's friend. This need to please leads to the more under-handed forms of aggression, because girls know they don't have to take responsibility for their actions.But the more friends girls have, and the more they try to keep those friendships trouble-free, the more aggression builds up under the surface.The effect of this "hidden aggression" is devastating to millions of girls, but is often invisible to parents. Many girls intentionally perpetrate acts of aggression that go unseen by parents and teachers.
Voice #1: A kid in a cage
Voice #2: In a zoo of misfits
Voice #3: Even until your release
Voice #1: When you’re a stooped-- --
Voice #2: Broken-- --
Voice #3: Bitter and old
Voice #1: Full of scars
Voice #2: Scars on body and mind
Voice #3: Friendless
Voice #1: Hopeless
Voice #2: Mindless
Voice #3: Soul-less
Voice #1: So you make your face a mask
Voice #2: A mask that hides your face
Voice #3: A face that hides the pain
Voice #1: A pain that eats your heartVoice #2: A heart nobody knows
Synopsis
Alexis Wittenberg has it all. She is a straight A student, a proud prefect, rich, girlfriend to the school jock and a star among her school friends. The only problem is that she is also a bully. Pretty, popular, and well-adjusted, Alexis finds that her life turns upside down when a familiar face becomes the new girl at their school. We soon find that Alexis hides and suffers from a great depression beneath a mask she creates to conceal her true personality. She buries her deepest sorrows and feels helplessness and loneliness. Adding to the burden, she is endlessly haunted by her inner demons, voices in her head that mock and ridicule her everyday. Alexis is forced to relive her painful childhood memories all over again when she realizes that the new girl was the girl who bullied her in elementary school. Alexis is infuriated and seeks to take revenge on the girl who destroyed her childhood life. But when a prank goes too far, Alexis feels she is losing everything and sets on a path of self-destruction. She is brought to the point where she would do anything to eliminate her opponent from her life, including suicide. Finally her two friends and teacher rescue her from herself and explain that the new girl was not the person who bullied her in the past. Alexis feels great remorse and sadness but soon learns to open up to her friends and teacher. The help which she greatly needed was always just right in front of her, she only needed to ask for it.
Theme
Recent occurrences of bullying have been given increasing amounts of attention due to the surprising and sometimes violent results. However, bullying is not only limited to male students. Research has shown that girl bullies are in fact increasing. Girls are just as aggressive as boys, but they act out in much more subtle ways. In our culture, girls are taught to be nice, which means not being in conflict, and being everyone's friend. This need to please leads to the more under-handed forms of aggression, because girls know they don't have to take responsibility for their actions.But the more friends girls have, and the more they try to keep those friendships trouble-free, the more aggression builds up under the surface.The effect of this "hidden aggression" is devastating to millions of girls, but is often invisible to parents. Many girls intentionally perpetrate acts of aggression that go unseen by parents and teachers.
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