Speak

The violence of women is a phenomenon very widespread in the society and it’s always increasing in a lot of places in spite of the law.

The biggest problem is that this phenomenon is recently starting to spread also between the adolescents, who are developing and who suffer violence from their schoolmates, contemporaries and friends too.

The film “Speak” talks about this problem; Melinda Sordino is the protagonist, she's a young girl that was raped by Andy Evans, a student of the same school she attends. She has a lot of problems with other students of school, with her parents and teachers, especially because she’s afraid to speak about his big problem with someone that can help her in some way and she hasn’t the courage to do it.

The film also speaks about the relationships between the protagonist, the parents and the teachers.

Her parents don’t know anything and they don’t worry about their daughter who has strange attitudes when she’s at school, at home, who every night has nightmares and she often gets bad grades in some subjects. Her mother is too busy with her work and her father is too indifferent because he’s unemployed and he’s always looking for a job; they don’t spend any time with Melinda so they can’t understand that she needs help.

The only teacher who understands that she has a serious problem, is the Art teacher (Mr. Neck); he helps her during his lessons and they became almost friends. The behaviour of the teacher of social studies is very different because he’s very indifferent to her.

That’s a very bad thing because I think that the teachers can help some students not only for the school but for some private problems too.