Watching the movie To Be Heard, made me see a different point of view in any teenagers life. The film follows three teenagers from the South Bronx and their participation in the writing program called Power Writes. It's something I have seen before, but not as many teenagers would speak up and say what's going on in their lives because no one needs to know what's really going on in their life. You speak when you feel like it's time to tell someone that you're being abused, being in a confused life, being in a family were you have no one to lean on, or to turn too. Watching these three teenagers become best friends and relating to what's going on in each others life, can make a huge impact in other teenagers life and create a wonderful friendship. The tone and the way the film was being made it was upsetting. The setting of the film took place where they lived, the school they went to, and what was going on around them. Watching Karina getting abused at home while trying to take care of her other siblings, watching Pearl fear of not getting into a good college, and Anthony who's trying to get out the life he's in and his only escape is by writing poems, that's his only freedom. They can and I believe that they will make a HUGE impact in any teenagers life, to see what they went through and have the same life as them will inspire to change their whole life around. This documentary film had sad tone to it, and the images made me believe as if I was there with them. I like the idea that both teachers Roland and Amy help them try to make something better out of their life and go on to doing something so much better with their lives.
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