How To Write An Essay About The Movie Suicide Room

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As a sophomore in high school, I had made enough bad decisions to cast myself into crippling depression and self loathing. On top of that, I was still coming to terms with the fact that while my very religious family had been drilling into my head for years that the gays were bad, I was just as much attracted to girls as I was boys. Between the abusive relationship I had gotten myself into with a boy who showed me a world of drugs, alcohol, and sex, battling with myself over whether to tell my family that their seemingly perfect little girl was actually bisexual and was probably going to hell, and self harm because of it all, it seemed nothing could help. Nothing could bring me back to the happy, naive little freshman with an overly optimistic …show more content…
I guess it just sounded like something that would speak to me. The movie opens up to silence, zoomed in quite close to a very severe, very pale man’s face. After about 30 seconds, he starts singing, and the camera pans out to show the man standing on an immense stage in a large theater. As the opera goes on, a very bored looking teen, the main character, is seen with his parents, both equally as severe as the man singing on stage. As the movie continues, you see that the main character, a boy named Dominik, is just a normal teenage boy trying to get through high school. He goes to a party with friends, where he is dared to kiss one of the other boys in the group. After he does, he realizes that he has romantic feelings towards the friend he kissed. When his school finds out, they humiliate him with homophobic slurs both in school and online, driving him into a deep depression. I related to Dominik on so many levels, seeing as I had to listen to my family speak ill of any queer person they knew, and had to pretend to agree with them in fear of being found out. This had been eating away at me since eighth grade, but somehow this movie gave me some relief. Maybe it was seeing that other people were going through the same kind of pain I was that made the pain more