FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

GazerRise Fantastic!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Cutting is a serious issue, I see it at school all the time. The problem is, there's too many adults who are outdated and think they know everything on the issue by watching movies like this, when really there's more going on than just kids being depressed.This film follows the typical pattern of self-help films, if it isn't cutting, it's drinking, drugs, smoking, anorexia or some other addictive behavior. A depressed kid cuts herself or himself, goes too far one day or gets caught, then a trusted and caring mental hospital gives them positive thoughts and BINGO! all their sadness is replaced with a love of life and excitement in school.Maybe adults should get the point of view of a kid before making a movie like this. Depression isn't the only motive for cutting, these days at my high school it's usually just for attention, and kids brag about their scars, show off bandages on their wrists, just to get pity and sympathy. It's just as wrong, yet accepted by kids and even adults these days. The serious kids, the ones who don't care if they go so far as to kill themselves, they hide it so much that they could be this straight A cheerleader one day, found bleeding to death the next because they went too far. It's never how films like this portray it to be, maybe in 2000 it was but certainly not in this day and age. Either Secrets Cutting is very outdated or very inaccurate.And that brings me to the idea of a mental hospital "rescuing" these hopeless cases as it so often depicts... yeah, a support group and some positive words aren't enough to stop somebody from cutting. The whole idea of making these hospitals look like caring and cheerful daycare centers is highly inaccurate. Kids with mental health issues, when it gets too severe, the last place they want to be is away from home being watched 24/7 by doctors and nurses, with positive quotes and reform therapy shoved at them.Cutting Secrets has lousy acting, boring soundtrack and a script that was obviously written by adult producers that knew very little of the issue from the perspective of a kid. Cutting is never the answer to any problem but there's two sides to every story and there are a lot of different stories, to try and generalize it hasn't helped anything. It's not really a movie worth watching unless you're incredibly bored, love seeing medical drama or want to think more about school than you are forced to, anyway.

scelestum This film shows the range of human emotions, the depths of depression the irrational urge to break free of the binds which hold us, and unlikely friendships.A great film, which deals with the issue of cutting in a way which is neither accusatory nor overly sympathetic. I thoroughly enjoyed the film. The acting performances are real, the film shows a depth of reality rarely found nowadays, refreshingly clear, the film transports the viewer to a place of observation where the emotions of the events are transferred.I highly recommend anyone to watch this film, it is also helpful in gaining perspective of your place in the world and your life.

xxblackrosexx Secret Cutting, also known as Painful Secrets, deals with a girl (Dawn) who self-injurers to cope. I'm a 'cutter' who is currently trying to stop, and I had this movie taped on my computer for awhile now.The beginning was okay--you met Dawn, and you learned that she liked wolves and was an artist. She had no friends, and she was being bullied by the 'popular' girls. She almost fit into what professional expect cutters to be--over-achieving, artistic, loners with no friends.The first time we see her cut is in the school's boiler room. She has a mini-orgasm, which was an exeration. I don't have orgasms when I cut myself--and if I did I'd do it more. More people would probably.She later meets a girl, who is a stoner. I don't know her name so I'll call her S-girl. S-girl is in therapy because the movie hinted at her father committing suicide by hanging himself.In the beginning of the movie her parents find out--and her Mom starts to ramble on and on about her childhood. The Mother goes to lengths to make her stop cutting--strip downs, and hiding all of the sharp objects. Heck, she can't even have a knife at the dinner table.There's her Father--a distant man who puts all of his time into work. Her younger brother acts uncaring and ignorant through the whole thing--even telling his own sister to kill herself.What bothered me is that during the first hospital scene they would of probably committed her, or at least bring her to the Hospital's Therapist. The second time they just let her say for a free days, and when she goes home her Father goes back to work. Her Mother--she left. Go figure.

BeckaM well.. now that i've refreshed my memory by reading some comments. i can say some things about this movie. but first.. i'd like to say.. cutting urself isn't really a disease or a syndrome, like some have said. instead i believe it is an addiction and a way of dealing with things. i think some people who have commented on this aren't thinking about how every situation is different. i think this is a typical situation. an unpopular girl is depressed and gets angry and tense and what not and calms herself by cutting herself.. not my situation in the least..i don't remember the acting too well, but probably it wasn't too good.. that is to be expected though i would think.. self-mutilation is not known very well. in fact when i started i did not even know people did that. and there are several ways to mutilate yourself. burning and branding yourself, hitting urself, gauging your ears for the purpose of inflicting pain upon yourself, digging things into your skin, or little things like scratching yourself are other ways to hurt yourself. that is not really shown in this film.on the whole this film is informative, but you really don't know the feeling of it unless you have experienced it. it may be scary to see fake cuts on people, buh seeing your skin open up a cm or more wide.. now thats something to be scared about.. i know that most people don't get why people cut themselves.. they don't understand. in this movie though, at least it gives information, situations, outlooks, behaviors, etc so that people may understand more.. buh really there is so much more to it. more situations.. like death and suicide and the inability to cope with things.. oh well, it was alright i guess. from what i remember..