Ok I'm going to repeat myself when I say that I really thought this was going to be a split personality movie. I think that would have been a great ending to this movie, finding out that that kid never really existed and it was her second personality instead. So i was kind of disapointed in the ending becuase I was all excited for it to end like that
I also loved the idea of the red scrunchy being the "symbol" of the bitch of the school. Who ever wore that scrunchy was the leader of this mini society.
I also wanted to say that I thought JD was kind of the hero. I know that sounds kind of sedistic but oh well. I mean thinking back into my highschool there were a lot of snobby rich girls that I would have loved to just knock off. But of course I didn't. I just thought that he took all the normal kids dreams and mad them a reality. I know that sounds terrile but have you ever thought to your self oh man what I would give to get rid of this person... I just always hoped they'd move, but he took it a step further.
Also, I loved how they added the little girl crying at the funeral. That really made my heart melt. Because no matter how much I hated someone and thought it would be great if they were just gone, I always thought of their family. We had a few kids die in our highschool, and the overwhelming sense of sadness of their family and close friends was always too much to bare. I felt so bad for that little girl who was probably the little sister of one of the boys. I couldn't imagine if my older brother died in highschool. I would have never gotten over it.
They also made the suicides sort of heroized. They got the day off of school they had parties and school rallys. It wasn't sad at all.
I also wish that in the end she would have killed him instead of him killing himself. It would have also been a better ending to the one that they had I think. His dad had a lot of problems and you almost wish the mom would have killed him so the son didn't have to deal with the father his whole life. I felt bad for JD because of how he was raised because without his father in his life I don't think he would have turned out like that.
Thats all for now!
Yes! In a way JD could be the hero because he's simply doing what everyone is too sane to do. Yeah, there were some girls in highschool that I wish I could get at but I settled at pushing them into mud puddles whenever we played flag football in gym. Or putting ugly or unflattering pictures of them in the yearbook, since I was on the editing committee. Yay! See, but that's a normal way to go about it, I think. Wanting to hurt someone and actually taking their life are two totally different things!
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah when we saw that little girl crying at the funeral, I think that was one of the few (or only?) moments of real emotion in the whole film.
The suicides were certainly not sad. They turned them into big statements, rather than sad moments. I loved the scene in class when they were talking about the importance of the situation and Veronica started laughing knowing that it was all a bunch of crap and when everyone turned to look at her, she turned her laughter into tears.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned in another blog reply that I thought JD started out with some heroic type qualities for trying to right some wrongs in the system, but in the end, fell rather short of being a full hero because he was a nut-job. Sure it might be a testament to how bad he thought things were, but taking that kind of power into your own hands is too much for anyone (granted he did kill before, so that goes against my original heroic details of JD).
I'm just letting everyone know that I am not crazy. I would NEVER hurt anyone. Not that I haven't wanted to do it, but I WOULD NEVER! I hope it's normal to think bad things about people, but know that not in a million years would you ever have it in you to do anything with them.
ReplyDeleteJust to be pedantic, the line is "fuck me gently with a chainsaw." Which is even more warped, when you think about it. And don't ever say that in front of your parents or other impressionable relatives.
ReplyDeleteI think the real point of the movie though, isn't who the real heroes are but rather what our expectations from teen movies are, and how this movie plays with those stereotypes.