Bang You Re Dead Identity

The 2002 Film, Bang Bang You’re Dead, was about a boy, Trevor in high school who was bullied because of the false bomb threat he made, which took place a few months before the start of the film. Then one of his teachers, Mr. Val chose him to star in a play called “Bang Bang You’re Dead”, in which he was the character who killed his parents and several students at his school, despite the bomb threat he made to his actual school. Many people of the community, students, and school staff and faculty were very alert of Trevor and were completely against the play with him playing the role as a killer. Hence, wanting it to be cancelled. Trevor had started to experience bullying at Rivervale High School since a year before the film takes place. Eventually,

According to Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, since Trevor is a high school student, he falls under the psychosocial crisis of Identity vs. Role Confusion. Throughout the film, Trevor began to find himself by discovering who he really was, and that was through the play he was chosen to star in and through events that occurred with his family, the community, friends, and peers. Trevor struggled with his identity development because he had students bully him, questioned by the police, in and out of the principal’s office, pressure from the community, and becoming part of a group of boys who were planning a school shooting (The Troggs). The role the parents play in the film are protective and cautious parents, whenever Jenny would be on the phone with Trevor, her father would pick up the phone and tell Jenny to hang up and not associate with a kid like him. Other parents were completely repulsive of him and wanted him out of the school as well as the play. Jenny was pretty much his only friend that was there for him in a positive way, unlike the Troggs who wanted him to join in on the school shooting. Jenny didn’t care what other people thought