8th Grade (2018) is a must see film for anyone who has ever been in 8th grade or is there now

8th Grade is a realistic adult level perception of just how awful 8th grade is for everyone. The only grade worse than 8th grade is likely 7th grade (this was my experience when entering Junior high school in 1960).

So, I highly recommend seeing this movie even if only to have more compassion for people going through this hell of puberty and adolescence like most of us already did. It's easy to forget through the years just how awful it really was going through all this and not really knowing (WTF) was going on most of the time. It's easy to see after watching this film why so many don't survive 8th grade or their teens at all either psychologically or physically.

This film teaches us all compassion for ourselves and all others who have or will go through this.

It wouldn't have worked if it were a boy going through this by the way. Boys are even worse off than girls going through the 8th grade. Besides, girls are always about 3 years ahead of boys so this is important to understand too. Boys in the 8th grade are sort of children with adult feelings that don't know what to do with them. That's why a movie about an 8th grade boy likely wouldn't work (at least done in this way).

It might work if you portrayed an 8th grade boy as a juvenile delinquent who came of age and stopped hurting people (and himself) and became a good citizen because this can happen about 25% of the time where a boy can stop being a criminal and find a way not to either die or spend the rest of his life in jail or in and out of jail.

I'm not sure showing this film to someone younger than 8th grade is very useful, however. It might just scare the hell out of them or scar them for life. This likely is why it has an R rating in the first place.