I made a horror film about my abuser and made him watch it in front of the whole class.
(Throwaway account)
So to be clear, I am not entirely proud of this moment, but wanted to get this out somewhere since nobody knows about it.
When I was younger, I had a situation with a classmate, and to keep it incredibly short and leaving a lot out, he stalked and manipulated me by threatening to kill himself for about a year. He told me to my face that he had lied about it to feel better, and that was when I decided to cut him off. He wouldn't quit tho, and continued to do weird and shady shit to me and my friends, and still does to this day. It was really obvious he didn't know what he did wrong, but trust me, I explained. All of this stuff affects me to this day, and I am currently going through long awaited counselling and PTS treatments.
Cut to 2 years later. I'm still in the same shitty school with him, he has continued doing weird creepy shit. After a long debate with the school, they ended up allowing him to be in one of my classes (we take 3-4 different courses at the level I study), which meant that my abuser was sat in the same room as me at least once a day. That didn't sit right with me, and it just so happened to be a film class. This is when I started thinking.
In this class, we can produce a film on whatever we want, and I already knew I wanted to make a film about my experience. This is where I think I took it too far. At the end of the year, the films are displayed in front of the whole class to have a group hurrah before any exams. So, I took actual quotes from what he had said to me, in person and online, and included them in the script. Nobody else in the class knew I was doing this, and only 2 or 3 people (out of a class of 11-12) knew about the situation.
Cut to when we're watching the films. I get up and leave before his film starts playing to "go to the bathroom" to calm myself down before this. My film plays immediately after.
I let it play out, and I feel eyes at the back of my head the whole time. I can feel something clicking in his head as the film plays out, but apparently I was wrong. I got the loudest applause that I had heard in that room so far, and I watched him storm out as the film came to a close.
One of my classmates ended up reaching out to me later that day and confirmed what I'd suspected: My abuser had cornered them in a room after the rolling of the films and asked what they knew about our situation, then lied his ass off about the entire thing, yelled, cried, denied he had done anything and claimed I was "making stuff up" to make him look bad. I most certainly wasn't telling people, most people disliked him because he was a generally dislikable person, but I digress. I told the school about him speaking about me this way, and was told to keep quiet and stop bringing him up to them.
He was clearly upset and had a lot of mental issues over the years, and this had clearly awoken something in him. To be clear, nobody picked up on his relation to the film, including the 3 actors I had. It was only something he had noticed, which didn't look great considering my film was about a massive monster stalking a kid and stealing his soul. And honestly, his bare minimum realisation hearing his own words played back at him from the voice of a monster was the best revenge I could've gotten.
I kinda feel like I took this too far, but I felt like reddit might appreciate. first time posting on a subreddit like this also so sorry if I'm breaking any like subconscious rules!