Bullied (2021)

An Asian Australian family is portrayed as loving and cohesive, but the parents seem clueless about the bullying their daughter is experiencing. An Asian middle schooler is bullied, called racist epithets by a White middle schooler. A child sexual predator is a White male. Although the child doing the bullying sometimes uses racist epithets, she seems like a cruel person who might intimidate anyone she doesn't like -- i.e., the bullied girl's Asian heritage doesn't seem to be the main reason she's being attacked. It requires a close, slow-motion look at a crowd of students egging on the bully to notice that the victim is the only Asian child. The writer-director is Singaporian but grew up in Australia, where she faced bullying.

A student takes a photo of a 12-year-old on the toilet, threatens to post it on social media. A 12-year-old girl is mercilessly bullied by a peer at school, then blamed by the school while the bully is praised. A girl beats up another girl. A boy is beaten, kicked, called names by a group of schoolboys. A girl threatens another with a weapon. The two wrestle and one falls, hitting her head. A man is kicked in the face, knocked down. He bleeds profusely. An angry father punches a man in the face. A sexual predator attacks two adolescent girls. He starts to unzip his pants but is stopped when someone assaults him. Intruder hit over the head and knocked out. While a girl is publicly bullied and mocked in the schoolyard, a crowd of middle school students gather to watch and cheer; no one steps in to stop the fight. A 12-year-old girl goes missing but is later found.

Infrequent use of "f--k," "s--t," "bitch," "f-g," "piss," "dipstick," and racial epithets "chink" and "ching-chang."

Adults drink alcohol to excess. They tout it so highly that a 12-year-old steals whiskey and drinks too much. An adult smokes cigarettes in secret. A teenaged girl smokes a cigarette.