I'm Here Too (2017) User Reviews

Starts strong, gets slightly worse

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 4 February 2019]

"I'm Here Too " is an Australian English-language short film from 2017 that runs for 15 minutes and was written and directed by Brendan Byrne with Marissa Kaye and Kayla Byrne. The photo/poster already makes obvious that it is a serious film. It is about a young woman suffering from depression and dark thoughts that lead her towards the idea of commiting suicide and taking her own life. I think the movie starts pretty interestingly with how she explains to us her family backkground, her life at school and all the other reasons why she could only be happy and lead a satisfied life. However, she is not and things get more serious by the minute for this short movie. Sadly, the high level from early on cannot be sustained for the entire film as a whole lot of its just crying and screaming later on and even if this feels accurate and appropriate for the situation, I still felt a decline in quality and that the film could/should have been 2 or 3 minutes shorter. The acting is solid, nothing groundbreaking but I felt like watching actually real people and not just characters. Same for the script, which also gets a thumbs-up as a whole from me and I think everybody working on this movie did a good job. Still, there is no way this film is a 9.9/10. I may not have the background of a person soffering from depression, but even those cannot say this is a perfect film, one of the best ever made. It is interesting yes, insightful too, but also here and there with some weaknesses because it does not entirely live up quality-wise to how seriously it takes itself. This refers for example to the monologue of the girl at the end when she says the film is about us, the ones living with people suffering from depression. Not really. It is about her symbolizing depression, even if the words that we should not blame ourselves or search fault in our actions do make sense and can also have a soothing effect on some viewers confronted with depression in somebody they know/knew. All in all, I give thifs film a thumbs-up, but not an enthusiastic one. Worth checking out.

Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, please monitor what your children are watching

[Brytannikp97 · 2/10 · 17 June 2021]

I first saw this "film" on Youtube a little over a year ago. I've thought about it a lot over the past year. It makes me very concerned for little girls who watch this and think, "the only way I can get the attention I need is to kill myself." There wasn't much to this "film" besides the romanticization of a girl killing herself causing her family turmoil. There is no depth provocation of thought sewed into this movie. It is only a cash grab disguised as some sick advocasy. Sure, the acting was good but as the other reviewer said, it did feel like I was watching real people. I'm not sure who should watch this film. I wish it would have shown why life is worth living at the end instead of implying that the only way a person will have love shown to them is when they're gone for good. "