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Struck by Lightning (2012)
Awful film with a personal agenda
Like many of the professional reviews have pointed out, this script is obnoxious, arrogant and one-sided with a personal agenda.
The main character Carson is the most unlikable protagonist I've ever seen in a movie (and that includes Bella from Twilight).
Carson is a bully. Pure and simple. He think's he's better than everyone else around him, and thinks he's justified in telling his classmates that they "look like *beep*" and are going to be nothing but "future farmers and inmates".
Considering Colfer claims to want to inspire people to live their dreams in this movie, that seems like an odd method for Carson to use.
He blackmails people, slut-shaming them and using two gay boys sexuality against them. Considering Colfer is a some-what role model for LGBT rights and he's admitted this is based on real events, I find this is very worrying.
This film is nothing but a self-indulgent, arrogant shame-fest which Colfer wrote to shame and insult his home town of Clovis.
There is no real story to it, and none of the other students are developed as characters.
The only good parts of this film are Alison Janey and Christina Hendrix, who understand the art of acting and transforming a one-dimensional character into something more. Well done ladies!
Colfer's acting is so cringe-worthy and proves that he's only playing himself one again, just like on Glee.
The only people I can see liking this movie are teenage sociopaths like Carson who feel the world owes them something and think they are better than everyone else.
I seriously question the sanity and morality of anyone who likes this movie or takes it seriously.