Girls can be so mean
I finally got around to watching Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan, this weekend. In this movie, unaware Cady (Lohan) who has been home-schooled in Africa, is plunked down in a suburban high school because her parents think she may benefit from "socialization." Cady is quickly adopted by a clique of girls known as The Plastics, some of the most beautiful and popular girls in school. The group's leader, Regina George (Rachel McAdams), is a rich, gorgeous, and vengeful teenager. When Cady expresses interest in hunky Aaron, who happens to be Regina's ex-boyfriend, Regina immediately renews her relationship with him. With the help of some of her other friends, Cady immediately decides to retaliate.
I liked this film for its unflinching look at high school politics and popularity. The girls are obsessed with weight gain, clothing, gossip, and what their peers think of them, which doesn't sound too far off from my own high school experience. Mean Girls also explores the hierarchy of high school, with Regina lording power over her clique, and other students looking up to her because of her beauty, wealth, and position. Primarily, the movie tries to show how cruel girls can be to each other. Cady's mean friends turn out to be her own worst enemies.
Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live fame wrote the screenplay for the movie, based on Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. She also stars as the school's divorced, overworked math teacher Ms. Norbury. Fellow SNL cast members Amy Poehler (as Regina's youth-obesessed mother) and Tim Meadows (as the school's beleaguered principal) also add spice.
I liked this film for its unflinching look at high school politics and popularity. The girls are obsessed with weight gain, clothing, gossip, and what their peers think of them, which doesn't sound too far off from my own high school experience. Mean Girls also explores the hierarchy of high school, with Regina lording power over her clique, and other students looking up to her because of her beauty, wealth, and position. Primarily, the movie tries to show how cruel girls can be to each other. Cady's mean friends turn out to be her own worst enemies.
Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live fame wrote the screenplay for the movie, based on Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. She also stars as the school's divorced, overworked math teacher Ms. Norbury. Fellow SNL cast members Amy Poehler (as Regina's youth-obesessed mother) and Tim Meadows (as the school's beleaguered principal) also add spice.
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