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More About FRAGILE.COM: A teenage girl, Mara, who more than anything wants to be told she's special is approached by a charming man who promises her fame, fortune, and affectionâif she agrees to livestream herself crying for his niche website, Fragile.com.
As she delves deeper into the world of the site, Mara begins to lose touch with herself as well as reality. Her biggest fears start seeping into her everyday life until eventually the horrors of reality and those in her head are completely intertwined.
She'll have to get a grip on what's really important, otherwise she'll risk losing what really made her special in the first place.
Director: Alison-Eve Hammersley
Writer: Brittany Menjivar
Executive Producer: Lena Waithe
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Producer: Ruth Du
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PD: Ariel Vida
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Composer: Marcus Thorne Bagala
Starring: Carly Stewart & Colin Woodell
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A lot of people really looking at the horror aspect being the crying/fetish side and hardly anyone is pointing out how this is a clear story on grooming. She's in high school and a 30 year old man is manipulating her as entertainment for other, mostly older, men.
In the end when she can't cry a lot of comments seem to be talking about how it's empowering for her and worked as a twisted way of therapy, but in reality it was taken away from her. A human response to let out emotions was twisted and manipulated to be pleasure for others that she feels she can't even have a private cry to herself because crying is no longer for her. It's for others.
This is one of the best horror shorts I've ever seen. A near perfect depiction of manipulation, underage grooming and touching on a part of cyberbullying. I hope this actress will be going places.
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I loved how she acted when she was clearly trying not to cry in front of her friends, it was so accurate! How she avoided eye contact, even avoided talking because she knew she'd cry. Great actress :)
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the way i, as a girl, knew the second he said he was a director looking for people to cast that it was going to be bad. casting directors don't just get a person off of their looks, NEVER go with someone who randomly approaches you talking about casting you to an "audition", its not safe
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What is really scary is that you KNOW that there are people that have fetishes like this...the internet has something for everyone, no matter how weird or creepy....
Very well acted!
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She really said âAinât got no tears left to cryâ
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This short film is great commentary on how older men prey on younger impressionable girls and manipulate and exploit them. Based on the comment section people seem to be taking the crying website too literally.
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I'm surprised some people are taking the ending positively. Sometimes you should cry. Sometimes you need to cry. If you can't do it at those times, it's not a good thing.
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That moment...she can't cry... Thats the real horror!!
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Me at the end: This would be a good time to go full Carrie on them, Mara.
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I feel like thereâs a meaning behind this, almost like a deep, hidden thing lying behind what horror the film is. Itâs not scary because of monsters or jump-scares, itâs scary because of the way we canât find the meaning, but we know itâs there, and we are scared of what we canât see, or what we donât know.
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What's weird is how this actress kind of was crying for a job. And it's amazing how she can both cry and have trouble crying--really good acting.
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Imagine how much she had to cry for the audition as well.đ¤§
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While it has a premise of being sold as a fetish, I don't necessarily think it's a sexual transaction between her and the men watching her. For example, the tear ratings and them wanting the emotion to be authentic; in a growing society where we get more and more emotionally calloused, we crave intimate emotions. Hypothetically, we could get to a point where we don't even remember what those emotions looked like or felt like. Certainly everyone Mara runs into acts this way due to the consistent cruelty. She is marketing an emotion and eventually runs out just like those who view her
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This is the only short film in a while that has genuinely terrified me. Just the idea of a 30 year old man manipulating a vulnerable teen into sex work is SO SCARY. And the fact that it keeps her from having healthy and normal reactions to things? Brilliant writing. Absolutely devastating.
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"he's almost as hot as Edgar Allan Poe" whatđđ
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The director was ingenious in naming the girl Mara. The name âMaraâ comes from a Hebrew word meaning âbitterâ
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The school is just cool with a 30 year old as a prom date?
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My theory behind what the clients get from seeing her cry is confidence. If someone who is deemed pretty or beautiful by your own standards is crying and you manage to console them, then I imagine that could be a big ego boost. Of course, different people may get gratification from the same thing for different reasons; the school friend who saw her just thrived on the idea of someone experiencing emotional pain.
Reading into the scene where Duco makes her eyes bleed, that's effectively the pretext for what happens; she's bled dry of tears and emotion in exchange for his money. "Selling your soul" as it were.
The paradigm of being "the centre of humiliation in front of the whole school" is generally the worst nightmare of most teenage girls that would result in endless tears. The shock on her face when she realises not even that could make her cry was palatable. The attempt to burn herself under the water was cherry on the cake.
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Horror isn't all about ghouls, poltergeists, or any other spirits you can think of. Sometimes the real horror lies in the reality and truth of life. Not being able to feel a certain emotion can ruin someone's life mentally, and eventually lead the person to harming one's self physically. Now that's the true horror.
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3 years ago
Alter would be dangerous with a bigger budget đ
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