These bullies were completely unaware that the new transfer student was a brutal fighter

I grew up in a small town. Because I was (at the time) small for my age and my family attended the "wrong" church I was bullied relentlessly. I turned the other cheek for (9) years until the day I fought back. The leader of the 'Bully Squad' sat in front of me in health class. He loved to lift the front of my desk up and dump me out of it. One day I had enough. I stood up, confronted him and labeled him with a roundhouse that knocked him cold. I was almost expelled from school but a lot of students said that they had watched the kid torment me since First Grade and wondered when I would finally hit back. It's needless to say that the bullying stopped--completely. Cost me a dislocated knuckle and a cracked wrist but justice was done. I might add that I understand why some kids bring a gun to school; the thought occured to me a couple of times. I was reminded of it some years later when a kid in a town that I eventually settled down in, about 50 miles away, brought a gun to school and shot and killed the bully. He served his complete sentence because every parole hearing he said that he had no remorse other than he didn't do it soon enough, and the only regrets he had was the pain that the bully's family had to go through...

“Then Erik kicked him out of the house”. 😂 What Erik did was to turn the tables. He beat the living shit out of his stepdad after a lifetime on the receiving end.

The bully who I dealt with repeatedly in high school picked one fight too many with me and one day when he slammed a basketball in my face, I waited until he turned his back and made a running leap and hit him with a left hook so hard I nearly broke my hand. He beat the living hell out of me and knocked me out, but he got into trouble for it and never laid a hand on me again. He finally found someone who hit back... I never would talk to him through the years and he died recently. While all of his friends sat around lauding what a great guy he was, I remembered all the people he beat up with the school principals covering for him. His soul can rot in hell. I am satisfied knowing I gave that SOB a nearly broken jaw for his unending reign of terror - It was worth the beating I took. People started to not pick fights with me after that incident, although one more fight happened where I took one more bully out and after that, I had the most peaceful year of high school ever. I was glad to escape that hell hole when I graduated.

This is a Swedish movie from 2003, and one of the best I’ve seen. Good recap. But in the end, Erik went in to the room with his stepdad and beat the living shit out of him. 🇸🇪🇳🇴

My father went to high school in the '70s. When he was a freshman, there was another kid who had failed several grades. He was basically a senior+ with the freshman. He would bully many people and had been doing so for years. He could get away with it because he was basically an adult man amongst teenagers. One day he beat up one of my dad's friends before school, so my dad went to the pull-up bars, slid one of the bars out (it was designed so that the height could be changed), and hit the bully in the back of the knees with the iron bar, dropping him to the ground. The bully turned his head and said my dad was a dead man when he got up. My dad raised the iron bar over his head and said, "You're not getting up, you son of a bitch." Luckily for me (lol), one of the coaches had seen what was going on and rushed over to grab the iron bar out of my dad's hands before he could kill the bully. Later, the entire varsity football team heard the story, and they all beat the crap out of the bully with promise of more retribution if he bullied anyone else again (my dad was on the JV team at the time and was friends with a lot of the older players). The bully quit school and was never seen by my dad again.

Their reaction to dirt makes me think it’s not dirt lol

I was bullied mercilessly at school. Once I was beaten to the point of needing a 2 week hospital stay. To the day she died my mother believed my injuries were due to the sport's field. There was no way I was going to report the bullies; this would only result in far worse reprisals. My principal bully was well off, better off than his peers who, like myself, came from working class families. It used to baffle me as to why this kid who had everything was only happy when he was beating the snot out of me. Years later I met his sister in a shopping center and she told me he was in prison. Apparently he did an armed robbery, this kid who had everything.

The moral of the story, never let a woman give you advice about how to deal with other men.

I taught my son how to deal with this sort of thing. We, as parents, are never sure our lessons were effective until our children show us that they were. I pulled up at school to pick my son up (he was in 4th grade), and the principal escorted my son over to the car. I thought "Oh, no - what has he done?" When they got to the car the principal told me "Daniel was just in a fight - I saw the entire thing - the other boy started it and Daniel finished it." I said "Thank you, sir" and we left. As we pulled out of the parking lot, Daniel said "Hey, we're going the wrong way" and I said "We're going to Wendy's and you're getting a Frosty."

Great story of anti-bulling. I started getting bullied in 5ith grade, and a popular kid at our school convinced me to fight back, so I did in 6th grade. Between 6th and 8th grade, I had 4 bullies and ended up beating them out up, By 9th grade a was an advocate of anti-bullying. Yes, I became a bully for a day in th grade. It's a circle. Great story!!!!!! A LOT of people all around the world, have been bullied or were bullies! UNFORTUNATATELY!

As the school season began I watched our school bully harass and harm my mates over the first few days. Knowing eventually he would come at me. I was prepared mentally for it so when it indeed happened I immediately challenged him to an after hours meeting to settle our differences. He of course accepted. We met. He lost and lost quickly with a severe beating. It changed him completely and he not only never bothered me again, but ceased from bullying everyone. Every bully is a coward looking for someone to stop him. When you meet one, oblige him. My bully never bullied anyone else again. It's the only lesson they can learn from.

I saw this movie. It was all that you described and much more. It showed the evil that devlopes in children who lack guidance, discipline, loving parents and motivational goals and objectives in life. Extraordinary film. Thank you for posting it.

I was bullied by a gang of 5 in high school. The ringleader was the star of the basketball team, and could do no wrong. So I graduated and later attended our 25th class reunion. I was dreading that the gang would show up again and p;pick up where they left off. One of the girls (now a young woman with family) in my class took me aside and gave an update. After graduation, one of the bullies disappeared, never to be seen again. Three others were dead before they turned 21 years old. The ringleader sat in his mother's basement, unemployed and unemployable, with numerous violent felonies on his record. The state law enforcement promised him the next felony he committed, he would be in prison until the day he died.

The algorithm is weird.

To my surprise bullying was allowed and encouraged at most of the 11 public schools I attended, and, to my knowledge, still is. The irony is bullies are alway cowards. I was warned that a bully terrorized the school as I was walking to school in 2nd grade. I listened to "the monster" and the things he did. We got to school, had class and then it was first recess. Second recess was after lunch. Anyway, I was speaking to the same kids when "the monster came along" and to me surprise he was a small little kid. He'd go up to one child and torment him, then another and another. No one fought back, and the teachers did nothing to stop him. I couldn't believe it. They told me once he reached us just put my head down and avoid his thrashing, instead I threw him to the ground and beat the crap out of him. There wasn't a thing he could do as I held him down with my left arm and beat him with my right. He was completely unable to fight back. Immediately the teachers, who had been watching, came out to rescue the "monster". I was hailed a hero by the other kids, but anyone could have done it. They were so terrified by what a "monster" he was they were afraid to do anything. I had no training at that time. We never saw him again, and I didn't get into trouble. This has been my experience with bullies again, and again. Freshman year, first days at lunch I was sitting with a lot of other boys my age when a confident JV Football player challenged all the freshman boys to a fight one by one. He had girls with him and was showing off. The very last person he challenged happened to be me and I casually said, "sure". By then I had a lot of training in boxing, but he didn't know that. He did sense something was wrong and quickly said, "Only a slap fight" and I said sure. I just stuck a jab in his face and turned him to my left. He was slapped so much he became afraid to move his arms, and I quickly realized he had no experience with fighting. I kept my hands open and didn't hurt him, but made him think twice about pulling that crap again. His confidence was gone in his voice and body language. After school while walking my dog and talking to my bro on the phone, some big old dude, at night said his place had been robbed and asked if I knew anything about it. I said I didn't. He said he thought I was lying and threatened to blow my brains out. This was not in school, and this was a grown up outside, and I was scared. My first thought was to run. He kept talking and again said that he was going to blow my brains out. I was frozen with fear. The third time he said it I dropped my phone, dropped my dogs leash and ran at him and shook him like a rag doll, swore at him and had planned to beat him but he didn't even try to fight back. He didn't even speak. Another coward. I threw him to the ground and told him to never threaten me again. He called the police on me, but, apparently, didn't tell them I had shook and thrown him to the ground after he threatened to "blow my brains out". They asked me if I knew anything about his stolen stuff. I told them I'd never stolen anything in my life and invited them to search my room. They declined and left me alone. The big mouth coward left me alone too. That was stupid on my part because I had no idea if that coward had a gun or not, and cowards like that would use it instead of fighting. I also could have gone to jail on assault, but I was outraged because I did not steal anything, and didn't want to be his victim. I'll say it again; it's been my experience that bullies are always cowards.

I'd honestly say that there's a lot of things in this recap that are not exactly correct, but with them still being "close enough" I think it will actually make for a better experience if people decide that they wanna watch it. Ondskan, or "Evil" is a Swedish masterpiece imho and the book is even better!

The only way to deal properly with a bully is to hurt them to such an extent that they fear ever messing with you again. I threw my bully face first into a urinal and then later pinned him against the wall after he kept kicking the backs of my knees. My exact words were "What am I going to have to do to you to make you stop?". He never bullied me again.

How in the world did I stumble across this gem! I didn't even know this movie existed and now I'm desperate to watch it. Thanks for these wonderful cliff notes!

I went to a public school and barely graduated because of poor grades and a happy-go-lucky attitude. It wasn’t until later that I buckled down, earned my degrees, and was a college professor. Education is important, but it’s not where you go to school, it’s what you make of it that matters.

Havent seen the film, but loved the book. about 30 years ago I read it. The painting taken down from the wall, was sold so Erik could go to that school. Wasent there swimming, that keept him from much of the violence? And a younger brother? That Erik saw got the same beating as he had before? Must read it once more. 🙂 and the Hamilton series, were Erik Ponti is a part. 🙂