No One Would Tell Movie Analysis

The movie “No One Would Tell”, is about a young highschool girl named Stacy. She had a single mother who dated men that never treated her well, she was a girl who kept to herself, she wasn’t well known at school and had a few close girl friends, but like any good movie, she was in love with the most popular jock in school, Bobby. He was the wrestling team's star athlete, one of their high school wrestling matches Stacy and all her friends went and they all talked about how dreamy Bobby was, they continuously teased Stacy about him and when Bobby’s match was over they all screamed for him and quickly hid their faces to make him look at Stacy. Ever since then they were the hot new item in school. Everything was going amazing until Stacy and Bobby
were sitting in the library when a guy came up to Stacy and Bobby blurts out “we are kind of busy here”. Then soon after a few girls came up to talk to Stacy and Bobby was so upset he got up and stormed off, so Stacy chased after him and he grabbed her and shoved her up against the books and screamed, “you said you would be alone”. This is an example of Intimate Terrorism, when one of the partner tries to dominate and control the other. When he could tell she was afraid of him he started to calm down and whispered, “I’m sorry I just only wanted to be with you”. The first sign of abuse should be taken very seriously, one violent act can lead to others. The next couple days Bobby showered her with gifts, he brought her a necklace and flowers and was the perfect boyfriend. But that didn’t last long he came up to talk to her at her locker and was looking at the pictures she had and freaked out about her having a picture of her and her guy best friend with his arm around her. Then apologizes and writes her a poem. She was at the beach with him and a big group of people when she was sitting with the girls she was telling them how he wrote her this sweet poem and when he over heard he got upset and stormed off, so Stacy chased after him and fell while chasing him, he screamed at her for having the poem and showing it to other people and then blames all of his anger on jealousy because he loves her so much. The next day Stacy was on the phone talking to Bobby and he went on about how they need “rules” he said, “you should be home when I call you, you shouldn’t be out in big groups when I am not there anyway”. Then Stacy and her best friend went shopping for new clothes to please Bobby, she explained her to friend, “he’s just so different, he promised me and he made me promise that we would be together forever”. The next day at school she wore her new clothes for Bobby, and a guy in the locker room with Bobby compliments how good she looks, Bobby ran out of the locker room looking for Stacy and when he found her he told her that she needs to change and how she looks like a slut. Stacy said, “I wore this for you, don’t you like it?” Bobby replied with “no one else wants you or cares about you” and stormed off. He then feels bad and showers her with roses, which he ends up slamming the locker on her and storms off once again. Stacy goes to his wrestling practice and crying and begging, “Bobby please don’t be mad”, and then yells at her for crying and embarrassing him, he grabs her and throws her at the gym wall which is an example of situational couple violence where is usually taken place in an argument and does not result in serious injury. The coach steps in and and asks if she's alright, Stacy looked at him and said, “yes I’m fine, it was my fault I slipped”. Her mom sat down and talked with her about how she thinks she’s hanging out with Bobby too much and Stacy got defensive and told her mom that she’s just jealous and that it was all her fault. The school dance was coming up and her friends asked if she was going, she replied with, “Bobby said no he just wants to talk instead”. Stacy’s friend found bruises on her and she just made up excuses.
Bobby shows up with gifts, so Stacy apologizes for fighting she was just being “stupid and jealous”. While walking into the parking lot Stacy found Bobby’s mother in his truck, so she went up and introduced herself. The conversation was going great until Bobby came back and started screaming at Stacy, “get out of the truck!” He grabbed her and pushed her against another car then got back into his truck. She screamed, “Stay away from me, don't ever talk to me again!” Stacy was in her room that night brushing her hair when her mom walked in behind her, Stacy nonchalantly showed her mom the bruise on her head, so her mom asked her what it was from and Stacy again made up an excuse, “me and Bobby were just goofing around”. In chapter 12 it talks about how most women that are abused hide the evidence and cover up the marks that are
visible. She then got in the shower and when she came back into her room Bobby was sitting on her bed, he confessed to her about his family, how his dad is a drunk and he beat his mom which is a common trait for the abuser to be a substance abuser and also for the abuser to be raised by violent parents.
He said to Stacy, “but that’s not us, we are different, no one will ever understand us”. They ended up going to the dance together and had a great time, they danced and laughed until he caught Stacy talking to her guy friend, he grabbed her and brought her outside to yell at her. Then he slapped her and her friends saw the entire thing and told her not to go, but she insisted on going with Bobby, she said “it was my fault and it didn’t even hurt” her friends tried and tried to get her to come with them, but she screamed “you don’t give up on someone you love”. Stacy was at her friends house and he called asking for her, she said “he always knows where I am”. She ended up breaking up with Bobby, he kept saying “but you are my life”. Stacy went bowling with her friends and he called the bowling alley looking for her, she picked up the phone and ended up waiting outside for him and Vince to pick her
up. Once he picked her up they went back to his house, he ended up pulling her to the side and yelled at her then hit her for being out which is an example of Intimate Partner Violence, which is all violence among intimate partners. Stacy left the house and Vince chased after her. Vince convinced her into letting them bring her home. Bobby decided he wanted to bring her to their special place before, he makes Vince stay in the car as him and Stacy go on a walk. On their walk he talked to Stacy about how she previously told them that they would be together forever. She stood her ground and told Bobby that they couldn’t be together, so he pulled a knife on Stacy which is one of the many examples of battering, it’s when slapping, punching, knocking down, choking, kicking, hitting with objects threatening with weapons, stabbing, and shooting. Stacy’s family and friends have no idea where she went she never ended up coming home. Her best friend went to Bobby, he lied to her and told her that Stacy ran away. All of Stacy’s friends get talking and they all tell each other what they have seen Bobby do to her, they eventually confess to the adults. Cops get an anonymous call, from Vince, telling them to check the lake for Stacy. Vince ends up confessing that Bobby killed Stacy and Bobby ends up going to jail for life.