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This is just gross. Not sure what the point they were trying to make but honestly very creeped out and to have the kid say what he said is even worse. Who let their child act in this and say that?

I see a lot of outrage toward this film, but do people realize that this is happening in schools allover the country? It was very thought-provoking. The teacher, in her sick mind, felt that she was in a relationship with the boy. Watch your kids close, and be careful who you let them go places with. That's what I got from this. And yes, overall the message was very serious, but Wes Bentley's awkwardness was funny to me, hence the comedy part.

How many times have you turned in the news and seen a teacher arrested for this very thing? I can recall many cases of this happening. If you've never heard anything like that, you must live under a rock somewhere. Afterschool specials are meant to mirror reality and be thought-inducing, and this is both.

The award-nominated "After-School Special" is an American 9-minute live action short film from 2011, so this one had its 5th anniversary last year. It was directed by Jacob Chase, who is not too famous, but perhaps you have come across another effort by writer Neil LaBute already. The stars here, however, are of course the two grown-up actors Sarah Paulson and Wes Bentley who have been enjoying prolific and successful careers for a long time now. They also have nice chemistry together and in the first half, this film is at its best when it is these two on the screen. When the son of Paulson's character enters the picture, it gets south quickly because the child actor really wasn't particularly good, but also because there felt very little to the story as they were basically just talking about the first half of the film and what happened. So maybe a 6-minute film with Paulson having a short solo ending when Bentley is leaving would have been the better choice for this film. I like the actor, but the film's decrease in quality from okay to weak was just too decisive for me to recommend the watch here. I give it a thumbs-down and suggest you skip this one unless you are a huge fan of either Paulson or Bentley.

Lets get one thing straight, this short is very disgusting, not a Comedy. But it still has relevant and important message. Predators are all around us. It's not always the creepy dude on the playground.. sometimes it's someone close, someone "normal", a family member, an uncle, a teacher, a women.

We often forget that women can be predators too.

We really get to see this, in this short. She seems nice. She takes care of a child with a rough background. She's the kindhearted hero. Or at least we think so.

Then the kid enters, he's a bully, he's rude, obnoxious, dominant. And we feel sorry for her, seeing her as the victim. But then the kid says that line, that creepy disturbing line that makes us all realize she's a creep, a predator.

The kid is the victim, not her.

If you know anything about how grooming works, you'd know that the boy's behavior is normal. Groomers are masters in making the kid think it's their own idea.

They pray of kids from broken homes, kid who don't have anybody else, which is exactly what she is doing.

I have a hard time rating this. Cant give it 10 because it makes me sick. But can't give it 1 either because the very important message in it.