I tried to find the one word. I considered: “Wow.” “Exhausting.” “Epic.” Maybe “lovely” would have done the trick. Because it was a lovely movie, only slightly marred by the fact that the 20-something lady in the seat immediately to my right kept shouting “yes!” at unexpected moments. “Yes!” she shouted, wearing an inappropriately fancy red dress. Very disturbing.
The third in a trio, this one — American Graffiti,Dazed and Confused, and now Super Bad. Three slices of poetry. A story told overnight about childhood’s super goodbye.
Afterthought: D&C and SB were primarily from the guy’s perspective. Are we due for the 17-year-old girl’s take on the last day of school? Or has that been done and it just didn’t hit my radar?
Hmm, I’m thinking about movies like Heathers, Clueless, and Mean Girls, but of course those are not sweet and benign takes on girls’ experience of high school.
heathers–good call. and farther out the angst continuum, there’s thirteen (not for little vorteci!).
a decent corollary to those mentioned in the post is the tv show “my so-called life”; good cast (claire danes was the central character plus jared leto, etc.). i think it only ran a season, but it was much better than that.
Heathers, Clueless, Mean Girls — all awesome HS flicks from the female perspective, but I’m still looking for the female equivalent of the one-night-at-the-end-of-HS-just-before-the-big-leap flick . Is it out there?
-Cecil
you’re thinking of pride and prejudice. although, elizabeth is 20, having been held back in h.s. for humduggery.
Hmm, I’m thinking about movies like Heathers, Clueless, and Mean Girls, but of course those are not sweet and benign takes on girls’ experience of high school.
heathers–good call. and farther out the angst continuum, there’s thirteen (not for little vorteci!).
a decent corollary to those mentioned in the post is the tv show “my so-called life”; good cast (claire danes was the central character plus jared leto, etc.). i think it only ran a season, but it was much better than that.
Heathers, Clueless, Mean Girls — all awesome HS flicks from the female perspective, but I’m still looking for the female equivalent of the one-night-at-the-end-of-HS-just-before-the-big-leap flick . Is it out there?
-Cecil