The voices of the two boys convicted of sexually assaulting their high school classmate Audrie Pott, after defacing her passed-out body with crudely written messages in green marker and then sharing said photos on social media, are flat, dull, and sometimes hesitant as they describe what happened that night. Their words are inadvertently revealing about the mindset of people who think that this behavior is in any way okay. The boys are in big trouble but they are slightly confused as to why. Shown in animation to hide their identities, the boys’ interviews with Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, husband-and-wife co-directors of the documentary “Audrie & Daisy,” were part of the boys’ plea bargain, and so the boys are strangely passive, submitting to the questioning in a calm and clueless way that is extremely unnerving.Audrie & Daisy 2016 Movie Download.
The entire documentary is unnerving. Focusing on four separate rape cases with eerie similarities, “Audrie & Daisy” is a stark portrait of a problem which is not in any way local, aberrant, or random. The problem is systemic.Audrie Pott had no memory of what happened the night of the assault, but she heard rumors about it, and rumors that pictures of her naked body were everywhere. She experienced nonstop harassment on Facebook and everywhere else. Audrie sent increasingly pleading texts to one of the boys involved, a boy she thought was her friend, begging him to tell her what happened: “U have no idea what it’s like to be a girl.” The bullying was so relentless that Audrie Pott committed suicide eight days after the assault.
Another girl interviewed, Delaney Henderson, had a similar thing happen to her, and expresses regret that she hadn’t reached out to Audrie when she first heard about it. Maybe it would have helped Audrie to know that this had happened to someone else.