(also on my livejournal, as my write-everyday thing for July 3rd.)
I just watched a wonderful documentary film called American Teen.
And it's really quite amazing, how similar and how different I am with them, how my school is with theirs, how my parents are with theirs. I could compare for ages, but that's not really the reason I wanted to write about the movie, and the people in it.
It was just that they so fit into their stereotypes it made me wonder if I did too, but then at moments they so transcended or ran out of their stereotypes it made me understand better why it's pointless to stereotype in the first place. Like Hannah, the rebel, was sometimes just as lovesick and dramatic as princess Megan, who was nearly bipolar from her switches from vagaries of vengeance, often incredibly vindictive and very vexing to the victims, to an anticipatory anxiety about acceptance or lack thereof. And then there was Colin, who wasn't just the "nice jock," he was the nice jock who needed a scholarship for which he'd abandon some of his niceness and rationality. And Mitch, his teammate, who was the heartthrob who could be a sweetheart except when his friends pushed him to be otherwise. And lastly Jake, the boy nobody noticed, the boy who wanted a girlfriend but was too unlucky in love, the awkward but undeniably sweetest of the bunch.
And even when I see them doing horrible things for their own gain, things that make me hate them, at the end of the day I still wanted them to get what they wanted, simply because they were main characters in this story that felt so real and yet so much like a movie at the same time. Which makes me feel shallow, because I obviously would feel ire at these people in real life, if I had known some of the things they had done, and yet just because they feel like movie characters I wish them happiness. Does this mean the filmmaker did her job or does this mean I'm a horrible person?
Oh I can't wait for college.
Jamie
who wishes she weren't so shallow. And is not sure if that was grammatically correct.