Sometimes, even the best teen movies can have murky underlying messages.
Message:that man offering you sweets isnt creepy, hes just eccentric.
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Willy Wonka is a man with some issues.
Message:pregnancy is just a minor inconvenience with no long lasting consequences.
This is all very lovely and heart warming, but just a tiny bit unrealistic.
And all I have to do is get pregnant at 15?
Count me in!)
Then again, writer Diablo Cody may have been hedging her bets for a sequel in about 18 years….
Reality Bitesis about the period of adjustment between the end of your education and the beginning of your career.
Sounds riveting, doesnt it?
This makes him the hero of the movie.
Or the man who has sold his soul to a corporation, ie, has a job?
Message:being a pimp equals success.
Pimping makes Joel popular and rich.
Not only that, but he gets some free sex from Lana because hes just so cute.
See guys, bag a prostitute and shell make money for you and give you freebies.
Message:If you care about your job, youre a big fat sell out.
Oh, and if youre female and the boss, forget about having a husband.
This is a story about a young woman who has a mean, horrible boss.
Its a little bit likeSwimming With Sharks,in which Kevin Spacey is a mean, horrible movie producer.
(Is this really such a challenge?
Or is Andy just a numskull?)
Message:house-trashing parties are awesome.
Now, it will be the whole town, and possibly everyone on Craigslist.
In the classics, woman are forever flouncing away from their suitors and occasionally slapping them.
You will always end up falling in love.
(Luckily, by the time he realises this, she has always fallen in love with him too.
So, let me get this straight.
Message:someday your prince will come.
Hollywoods thinly veiled obsession with beautiful hookers continues with the movie that launched Julia Roberts to superstardom.
Naturally, they fall in love.
Well, he lets her go shopping on his credit card, and then they fall in love.
Its the more insidious anti-work ethic which is more harmful.
So dont, yknow, venture to make it out of there on your own or anything.
(Didnt Cinderella already cover this?)
Whats the most horrendous part of this film?
Theres so much to choose from.
Girls will think youre weird if you do this).
There are some very strange people working as screenwriters…
Message:dress like a slut and boys will like you.
We all know the story, right?
Watch and learn, girls.
