Meet Audrie Pott. A high school student in California who loved life, but was also very insecure. One night her and her friends decided to go to a party. Little did they know that this party would be a major factor in the decision Audrie made to end her life.
Meet Daisy Coleman. A recent high school graduate of the class of 2015 from a small town in Missouri. She received a scholarship to play sports in college which she made good on. Little did her college friends know that four years prior, Daisy met up with some friends one night. A night that she will never forget and haunted her for years to come.
These two teenagers were separated by more then a thousand miles, yet their stories are very similar. Audrie, went to a party with her friends, drank a little too much and passed out in a room. Woke up the next day to find out that three boys drew on her entire body. There were lewd remarks including very sexual language towards her private parts. Audire then came to find out that she was sexually assaulted that night by those three boys because a marker was stuck inside of her. One week later, Audrie committed suicide because of the treatment of her classmates and the boys at her high school.
Daisy and her friend Paige were 14 years old and drinking in Daisy's bedroom. One night, one of Daisy's older brothers friends invited the two girls over. The boy and his friends at the time were 17 years old. The girls went over, drank some more, and Daisy was taken into one room and Paige into another. Daisy was then raped by her older brothers friend, while Paige was unsure of what happened to her. The boys then brought the two girls back to Daisy's house. They told Paige to go inside and they would bring in Daisy. But instead of bringing her into the house, the boys left her outside on the side of the house, in the grass, in below freezing temperatures. Daisy's mother found her in the morning, half frozen to the grass. In the coming years, Daisy attempted to commit suicide multiple times.
Two sexual assault cases with almost the same outcome. Victim shaming and a slap on the wrists for the perpetrators. This Netflix documentary is one of a kind. It explores both the girl's stories as well as the immediate society they were brought up in. Netflix explores the injustices against Daisy that comes along with growing up in a small town. Netflix explores the lack of care and believability that the police had for her story.
This documentary brings to light the true stereotypes and feelings when dealing with a sexual assault case in 2016. The documentary shows all angles as well; victim, perpetrator, police, and attorney. This document takes you deeper into a case then any episode of Law and Order SVU will ever take you.
Audrie and Daisy is more than just a documentary. Its a powerful, brutally honest, story of two teenage girls, whose lives were compromised at the selfishness of their peers. It is the story of he victims, clear cut, and shameless on their part. This hour and a half movie, will take viewers on a journey that they have NEVER been on before.
The next time your just laying around and need something to watch, or the next time you hear about a sexual assault, put on Audrie and Daisy. Learn their personalities, their stories and how there lives were changed because of someone else's decision.
So meet Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman, and form your own opinion. Did these girls asked to be assaulted or is our society based off of victim blaming rather than victim empowerment? You be the judge of that.
