"Mean Girls"

Movie Analysis:
(rough)

There were some good points to this movie. It was right. Girls are really mean. And those who are passing through adolscence now have the advantage of scheming with 3-way calling. People can talk on AIM & save conversations to show later. It's different from how my life was like, but similiar to what Anne Barkow told me about her time in middle & high school.

The problem was that the idea was that it could all be fixed. All that was needed was for the girls to be put in one place where they could admit to back-stabbing each other & such. It isn't that easy to fix! It is ignoring some of the main causes for such subversive behaviour. The problem is that girls don't feel like they can be openly irritated since everyone is always telling girls to be "nice." This would be fixed just through apologies. Cliques & rifts don't disappear that easily. And the humour that is scattered throughout tends to undermine the point that was trying to be made. It was almost hard to tell if the movie was supposed to be sarcastic, but Tina Fey was actually trying to convey the idea from the book Queen Bees.... Serious idea by SNL. It didn't really work in the end. The start was okay, but didn't go where it should've.

(Additionally, I wrote this a couple years ago. Since then, I have been working in an inner city school in Minneapolis. I want to abridge some of the ideas that I wrote, and that have been written: this suppression of open irritation is more true for suburban middle & upper class white girls. While some parts may apply still, it is not as wholly true for lower class minority girls.)