Sunday, April 25, 2010

Heathers

The movie Heather's is your typical high school drama film made to appeal to high schoolers social politics. Veronica is a not so popular girl who is trying to fit in and to do so she is hanging out with the Heathers 1, 2, 3 even though she hates them. This is typical highschool, timeless. Every student is familiar with this story in one way or another. Popular kids being evil and the "losers" being treated like dirt, one student in particular treated so bad that it brought them to attempted suicide.
Not so much a popular subject but the film pokes fun at teen suicide event the song of the film is Suicide don't do it. It respect for Columbine this movie would not be so widely expressed and viewed as a comedy. Today's politics are a little more sensetive then that. The rebel "tricks" Veronica into murdering four popular students to try and change school supposidly for the better but much like Veronica found out once one particular evil is gone a new one arises and the vicious cycle just continues on till the next person needs to take over. Veronica seemingly has good interests at heart but is hypocritical. You can not cause one great evil to fix another.
I also believe that this film pokes fun at the legal system as well. You see the police officers smoking marijuana in their police car and in uniform just before they find the bodies of the two football players. And even more so then that there really is not justice for the deceased they just assumed that they were suicides and there was no criminal investigations. This film makes a mockery of the schooling system as well as our legal system. Look at the way the board of education dealt with the deaths of the students. The principal just said lets just look the other way while the hippie teacher wanted to hold hands for peace and love but only when the cameras were around. Only to shed good light apon the schools image.

1 comment:

  1. Only partial credit for this, as it's pretty late. But it's better than a sharp stick in the eye, as me old mammy used to say.

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