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Directed By
Jessica Sharzer
Written By:
Jessica Sharzer, Annie Young Frisbie, Laurie Halse Anderson
Cast:
Kristen Stewart, Michael Angarano, Robert John Burke, Hallee Hirsh, Eric Lively, Leslie Lyles, Elizabeth Perkins, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Zahn, Megan Pillar, Susan Gardner, Arron Kinser, Annie Young Frisbie
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Speak (2004)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 24th, 2009
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Pretty well directed drama about a junior high school girl who starts her freshmen year with a lingering trauma that she doesn't want to talk about. As time goes past in the movie, she eventually comes around and you begin to read the story even before it's happened. And while this could easily be called just plain predictable, sometimes seeing the same thing done a different way can make it happen.
It's a little hard to explain how I liked this movie and how I disliked it. I will say that I found it fascinating the way they chose to portray her parents and how they went about in their lives, never really explaining what was wrong with them. While for every serious moment in the movie there is an inexplicably silly moment which can negate the worries for a short while.
I don't want to give away what the trauma was that occurred, but it should be pretty easy to figure out. The story is not told as a victim and predator one but the human's choice to persevere through trauma, to survive, and which lane it chooses to go down to do so. Which makes something predictable rather interesting.
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