Analysis Of If You Really Knew Me

In some moments watching a few of the episodes included in the series, If You Really Knew Me was a little tear jerking. There are several themes present throughout. One of the themes present is forgiveness, a specific example of this was in episode “102: Anthony Wayne High School,” there were two best friends, Emily and Karlee. In the end of the episode they have forgiven each other. Bullying is a huge theme throughout each episode, in episode “102 Anthony Wayne High School” cyberbullying is a huge problem. There is even a motto, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it online.” It spreads fast like wild fire. There are even students who partook in Challenge Day at their school that were classified as Bullies. There was Aaron from Anthony Wayne High school and Stephanie from The Denver School

There were some students that went through daily abuse, mainly verbal. For example, there was Brittney from episode “103: Riverside High School.” Her dad is a drug addict and verbally abused her while she lived with him. If You Really Knew Me was shot as a documentary style of film also a partial anthology. The only different items were the schools that the Challenge Day crew shot in and the students that participated in Challenge Day.

The show If You Really Knew Me was interesting and seeing teenagers reveal their private life to their peers in front of a camera was shocking, but it does not seem real. How serious can something like this be taken by teenagers? Some of them may seem true, but really how many students are doing this for the chance to talk for real and how many are doing this simply for attention. Another factor that made this show not seem “real” was that the cameras would follow the students with the saddest stories, the stories that the audience would feel the most sympathetic towards. When showing the international sign language symbol for peace, how true are the students being. In episode “101: Freedom High School,” the