Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Visions of Teen hood
I found this post to be a little easier to relate to since I'm currently a teenager myself. One of the best movies to compare to Teen hood (and also one of my all time favorites) is called Sixteen Candles. This movie is about a young girl, and it is her sixteenth birthday. Unfortunately, her older sister's wedding is also on the same day. She wakes up in the morning, and couldn't be more thrilled to be one year older. It's her Sweet Sixteen!! Instead of walking downstairs and getting greeted by a chorus of "Happy Birthday", or maybe even a birthday pancake, she is completely ignored. Everyone is so absorbed into the chaos of the wedding they completely forget the date. She's traumatized. It's actually a few days before anyone besides her close friends remember it was her birthday at all. I think this is a great representation (in a comedy) of how tragic something can be in a teenager's eyes. Through the rest of the film she partakes in many other teen like events, such as prom, finding a boyfriend, and being dramatic as hell. The movie does a great job showing the drama in teenager's lives, and is also incredibly easy to relate to. I recommend it to everyone!
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First of all, I love Sixteen Candles. Second of all, I completely agree. this movie is an excellent representation of how something so little can be something so HUGE through a teenager's eyes. This movie overdramatizes some of it, but that is only to make it funnier.
ReplyDeleteI feel ya there kate! I am definately an overdramatic teenager. We do tend to blow things way out of proportion and are able to expand every story. I feel like teenagers are all searching for someone to know EVERY thought and every wish we have, but at the same time we want to "be independent and free".
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