1. 1. in order to live happy
2. that we have to behave in the appropriate way
3. tried to teach lessons in an aggressive way
4. At the end everyone realizes that what they have
been doing in life is not completely right and should
do something about it.
5. In the case of Elias it is quite the opposite because
he is being bullied at school; this is another issue that
is still happening in every school
6. the parents of Elias
7. Nowadays many people treat others bad, but when
they need help they will run to them for help.
8. He is very aggressive, and I can say part of that
aggression comes from video games, because we
can see a scene showing the game, and it is about
guns, kill and something like that.
9. Elias is a guy that suffers bully in his school

2. 10. they don’t know how to behave in the society
and how confront different situations
11. The story is a common situation, because
students commonly are influenced by others at
school.
12. The title of the movie could speak by itself, it
shows us that we do not have to follow the same
behavior as violent people because it will not takes
us anywhere, but the opposite this only makes
human beings more rude and with desire of
revenge.
13. In this film we can see two different situations
that families can go through, one in which the
mother is death and there is an absence of the
father, and other one that even though the father
is not always at home, he keep in touch with his
children

3. 14. This for me is one of the biggest reasons of
violence that we have to watched every day and
we need to be aware of because usually people
are the result of what they had been gone through.
One of the most important things and harder to
understand is that in this world is that answering with
violence it will only lead us to more violence but
how powerless do we feel sometimes about an
specific situation in which we do not know how to
react because we do not want to be a part of that
endless chain.
15. The movie In a Better World are focus on offer a
clear example of the reality of many people that
live depend on the lives of other people. Teenagers
were faced on bullying so they looked for to be
accepted in the school. The issue involved in this film

4. is not believing the capacity to solve a problem and
learning to accept or not a situation.
16. Unfortunately, many people turn aroundin a
world full of doubts; fears, manipulation; violence;
isolation. The main concern is the audacity of the
teenagers to act in a wrong way and they want to
look for the revenge of their enemies
17. the only way to avoid violence is to construct a
peacefully communication. The adolescents require
of attention, the chance to break the bound of the
own identity. It illustrates that everyone has the
opportunity to accept or not something that can
endanger his/her reputation.
18. The human being is not perfect, therefore,
each moment of his/her life, commit they make
many errors, but the important achieve is learning of
them having the force to be overcome and to

5. continue ahead. The life will always present
opportunities to amend mistakes, but alone each
person make them the best teaching for not
tripping with the same stone again.
19. I read that for a movie to be successful, it
needs to appeal to one emotion every ten minutes,
because of this I think they achieved on me and I
think the producers achieved this on me.
20. After that, due to the demise of the mother of
one of the characters named Christian, it caused
the relationship with his father broke up; in addition,
Christian blamed his father for his mother’s death. In
many houses of our society, there are several
instances where kids attributing the loss of one of
their parents to another one, having a rebellion

6. behavior against them. This sort of behavior is
reflected in all the aspects of their lives such as: in
their schools, at home, or in the relationship with
other people around them. For instance, in most of
the cases when a kid lost a relative, they act a
wrong way showing signs of bulling, vandalism, or
violence.
21. On the other hand, if a child observe violence
near him/her, he or she would act in the same way
because they learned this kind of conduct. It is very
important for parents to teach their sons that
violence does not produce anything positive
22. Thus, the biggest Christian´s father mistake
made was to lie, children need to hear the truth
even though it is painful.

7. 23. and when a man lives following rules everything
goes rightly.
24. Besides, Elias is affected because his parents
are living separate lives, he did not commit a
mistake but his father did
25. Finally, the negligible Big man is a murder and
he rapes women without showing regret. And evil
man who does not have values and uses his power
just with the purpose of being miserable.
26. This (referent?) show how relationships can
influence a person’s life and how strong or weaker a
person can become with or without a sincere
relationship. These(what?) are few things that
people, and society in general, lack today.
27. School bullying is a common incident that
occurs in American society and
majority(overgeneralization) of children are bullied

8. by their seniors. These children become so afraid of
their tormenters that they hardly tell their parents
about the bullying incidents. It is at this point where
the absence of the father figure is more noticeable.
28. To avoid misfortunes like all before mentioned,
people deserve respect consideration, never be
humiliated, and of course we have the obligation to
live as brothers and sisters “in a better world”.
29. Every action has a consequence in lifethen we
must try to do our best in every choice that we take
because, as Christian, it can end up terribly wrong
(or the other way around if we do the opposite.)
30. In a better world moviepresents two
completely different worlds. . One is in Africa and
the other one is in Europe, but both share something
in common, which is suffering and injustice and
wishes of revenges.

9. 31. From this part of the movie, I can’t understand
perfectly the men who killed him because I had
done the same thing luckily our world has laws that
punish these crimes and we don’t have to take the
law in our hands.
32. Most of the children suffer some kind of
problem behavior when they are facing this
situation and that is why parents have to look for
professional help that advise them how to deal with
it in order to make their children life happy and
easier.
33. At the moment he is alone, his father is not
attentive with him.
34. As a result, when there is not communication in
family, the children choose the bad way

10. 35. The American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry describes the conduct
disorder as a mental illness
36. and in the movie they have some fighting
37. Elias is affected by bullying at school such as
fighting with Sofus, his classmates' names him rat
face, the problem with his bicycle, and he doesn't
have friends in a school until Christian came, and it
obviously affects the life and his self-confidence
38. In the movie In a Better World we can see a lot
of problems in Elias and Christian, and some of
these are the aggression, the bomb that they
create to destroy the car, and more.

11. 39. Parents must be careful with thechildren, they
need to help them to avoid a bad situation as the
accident of Elias in the movie.
40. It is very unpleasant to see how revenge take
everythingover
41. The environment around us is hard and makes
everyone aware of what could happen if they do
not gain respect by the others by acting violent,
usually among human beings is very common to
have the idea that the strongest person is the most
strong,
42. understanding and molding their thoughts and
believes
43. Revenge is one of the most common uses of
violence every day, it could be for thousands of
reasons

12. 44. but in other cases it starts a chain or problems
and everyone got hurts or even death
45. Otherway that people use violence is for fun,
and a good example could be during the war,
people capture other people from the enemy side,
torture them, and finally kill them.
46. because kids are kids and they are not going
to understand the situation, parents should talk with
their kids about all the consequences that bulling
provokes,
47. thereexist other healthy ways to resolve
problems like being friendly or talking.
48. Also, short, skinny and weak children at school
are likely to be victims of bullies at schools and out
of them, but Christian does not accept Elias and
himself to be victims of it , that’s why he reacts

13. violently against the biggest bully in his school. The
last situation that’s is worth mentioning
49. First of all, the character of the film, Elias, was a
naïve boy who attemps a normal school in which
he was a victim of bullying by a group of students
whom were older than him. When Christian, the
friend of the character,
50. As a matter of fact, Christian took justice on his
hands hitting the boy who was committing bullying
against Elias. As a consequence of this act, this
young man was send to the hospital due to injures
in his body which were dangerous for his health.
51. Those criminal actions caused rage in the
habitants of a refugee
52. these women were injured hardly
53. Additionally, due to the constant
confrontations between the citizens of the refugee

14. camp and the members of the gang caused Big
Man was wounded needing to be taken to the
camp to be medicated
54. Finally, a father who hit Elias’ father on his face
because he thought that this boy was bothering his
son in a park while were playing.
55. For example, the strong friendship that has
Cristian and Elias fragment. Despite the fact tha
they have known each other for a short time
fragment . This shows the desire to be accepted by
another human being which leads us to have
friendships that can be very special but that can
lead to irreparable mistakes or acts in our life which
can affect other people around us. Good idea
56. Another emotion presented is the resentment
that blinds us to the reality of things and leads us to
blame others for everything bad is happening,

15. when in fact there are times in which no one is
guilty, as when facing the pain of the death of
someone close by a disease such as cancer.
57. Divorce is a usual issue in modern cultures
58. As mentioned before, the situations are not
done on purpose by anyone but we can’t avoid
them to be a traumatic event in youngster’s life.
59. Being able to control yourself in violent
situations tells a lot about the person you are, in the
case of the movie In a Better World, the father tries
to teach his boys a lesson; don’t resolve your
problems with violence, this could only cause more
violence and it turns into a snow ball, it grows and
grows until you can’t control it anymore. These
reflects the internal struggle men live on daily

16. basis,not only men struggles with this, in the case of
the film, boys are also dealing with their internal
thoughts. In the time when the two boys are
planning to get revenge on the man who hit Elia’s
father, there are two sides; the first boy wants to
explode the car with a bomb, he is not limiting
himself, he is letting power and anger control him,
and he is getting to a darker side by the other hand
the boy from Sweden is not sure if it is the correct
thing to do but at the end he got caught by every
internal power he had without thinking on the
consequences, that we all got to see in the film.