![]() ![]() Kayla is struggling to fit in, discouraged by the classmates she cyberstalks, some of whom she even approaches in person. Sadly, she’s nothing like her YouTube persona at school. She posts self-recorded inspirational videos on YouTube, encouraging viewers to do things like be themselves, choose confidence, and put themselves out there to improve their lot in life. Young teenager Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), who’s finishing her final week of eighth grade, leads a double life. He swiftly takes it somewhere else, though, allowing Eighth Grade to tell its own story. With Eighth Grade, writer/director Bo Burnham traverses the same treacherous terrain - he even starts down a similar, cynical path as Solondz. Dawn Wiener is a hero of sorts to me (really). It’s probably no big shock then that my favorite movie taking on the horrors and inequities of middle school is Todd Solondz’s darkly hilarious and biting yet somehow sympathetic Welcome to the Dollhouse. “Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird.”Įighth grade was the worst year of my life - I hated everything about it: my shitty peers, my changing body, the high school application process. “The topic of today’s video is being yourself.” ![]()
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