One of America's dominant ideologies is the belief that if your pretty or handsome, and rich you will be popular. The movie Mean Girls takes on the role of people in high school. Being popular can do alot not only in high school but in the actual world. For example movie stars who are rich and famous get special treatment over people who don't have those things. In Mean Girls many high school stereotypes are focused on and exploited.
Mean Girls is a movie about a home schooled girl who moves to the United States and goes to a public school for the first time. She makes friends with the artsy clique but then becomes friends with the popular girls because she is pretty. She leaves her artsy friends and then becomes one of the popular girls. But she finds herself trying to be the most popular and starts putting on alot of make up and buying different expensive clothes. She becomes popular but then realizes being popular isn't something she wants to be when the whole school turns against her.
Mean Girls is a portal into the world of high school life and many of the stereotypical ideologies expressed there. Mean Girls uses comedy with a sense of realism about the popular hierarchy that occurs in high school. When Cady, the lead, leaves her artsy friends to become popular it shows just how much it takes to become popular. Cady went from not being fake to putting on alot of makeup and looking different based on everyones opinion of her. In the end Cady is satisfied with being her regular self and not trying to be someone she's not.
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2 comments:
I agree with this. I don't think high school is really as dramatic as shows like Degrassi and and this movie make it out to be. I mean, do we really see cliques here? Do we see people being unnecessarily rude? Maybe a little, but it certainly isn't that bad.
I don't believe Mean Girls really portrays what high school is like. For example, I don't think schools are that "clique-y". We're not really divided by jocks, cheerleaders,"the girls who eat their feelings", "the girls who don't eat", or "the desperate wannabes". The movie, Mean Girls is really a spoof of high school. No one really competes to be the most popular.Although catty behavior does happen, it doesn't happen to that extreme.
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