Bama Rush

Unless you have absolutely no idea what Greek life is this documentary is worthless. Half of it was about the director and her personal struggles with alopecia that she (poorly) attempted to relate to Greek life. Focuses mostly on the girls lives way before they're even on campus. Did not document the girls during the rush process and most of the girls ended up dropping out. Shout out to the one active member that said her house was bottom tier lol. The girls that they chose to interview seemed nice but they were generally not the typical girls seen on rush tik tok that most people were hoping for.

Would have been a good documentary if it weren't for the director making the entire thing about herself.

Sucks you have alopecia but it has absolutely nothing to do with joining a sorority in the state of Alabama.

Trying to compare your struggles with your subject at every turn has single handedly ruined your film and left your audience feeling click baited.

If every scene with the director in it was cut from this film I would have probably rated it an 8 out of 10.

Seeing what these girls put themselves through is absolutely crazy.

Next time keep your issues in check and you might make a decent film.

I was highly anticipating this film. I felt it lacked a little depth - there was such room to dive deeper into the exclusive nature of sororities and fraternities and there are way more secrets to be shared (coming from a former sorority girl). I felt there needed to be more concersation about how intense the actual rush process is - how expensive, how time consuming, how emotionally intensive it really is. Hugeeeee miss here. Also could have dove deeper about how the sorority girls rank those PNMs. There's a lot of undercover discrimination that goes on there, too. Overall, I think this documentary focuses too much on mental health and what it takes to look like a sorority girl than exposing the truth of what rush is. This was a bit disappointing, lacked focus and was extremely underwhelming.

This is marketed as a window into Greek life at Alabama, but I have no idea what is happening here. There is virtually nothing about fraternities and sororities, and a lot of scenes of the director re-saying information that's already been said, more or less verbatim. For example, first they tell you what a NY Times article says, and then they'll pan to the director saying, "There was a New York Times article..." This is when she's not talking about alopecia, begging the question: Why didn't you make a movie about alopecia? It seems to be what she actually wants to talk about, and uses a handful of awkward people pursuing sorority life to talk a lot about her trauma from wearing wigs. Honestly, it's baffling.

What a weird documentary. The director made herself a major figure in the documentary with a very tenuous connection to her own insecurity about having alopecia. I mean that's a worthy story to tell, which a lot of young people would surely benefit from, but it was strange to include in this film. The director takes up a lot of time talking verrrrry slowly with this weird affect to her voice, to talk about things that happened during filming - but she could've been covered it all in 1/4 the time, and spent more time on actually covering the subject at hand. It was very off-putting. As a result, the whole documentary only scratches the surface of what it claimed to be analyzing.