Netflix's The Luckiest Girl Alive

"My anger is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. It’s completely toxic.”

She had every right to be angry. Every, single, right.

Firstly, before you go any further, I would like to state a trigger warning. If you would like to continue reading, you can. However, if you have been through any type of sexual trauma I would like to give you a fair warning.

Photo by Netflix The Luckiest Girl Alive

The different layers of a school shooting.

There have been a handful of films that have been made about school shootings. Most of them start out the same way, someone is being bullied or having a hard time with some aspect in life and unfortunately decides to take it out on their classmates. The victims are usually the good ones, students that were nice to everyone, and brought a smile into every room that they walked in.

With the "Luckiest Girl Alive" that is not the case, in fact, it's pretty much the opposite.

Different layers of trauma.

This film depicts trauma in a way that helps the viewer step into someone else's shoes. With that being said there are some things that a person cannot fully understand unless they have gone through it. It covers three:

  • School shootings

  • Sexual Assault

  • Toxic Parental Relationships

Describing the anger that comes from either of those situations as "odorless, tasteless, colorless, and completely toxic, but only to me," is one of the best ways I've heard the way that I feel, the way that many people feel, described.

Handled with delicate hands.

Netflix did an incredible job with the source material about a topic that happens to way more people than you may realize.