I was commuting to work while listening to NPR's The Takeaway.
This morning they aired a segment on Olivia Wilde's directorial debut, the new movie Booksmart.
Here's the trailer for the movie.
The guests/host during the segment referred to the movie as "the female Superbad" in that the two main characters are lower in the social order and want to move up the chain.
Though IMO it diverges from Superbad in that the ladies' journey is decidedly more "Comp Lit Gilmore Girls tumblr gal" POV and less "D&D 4Chan gamerboy" POV.
Funny, but insightful clip from trailer:
Molly: We didn't party because we wanted to "focus on school" and "get into good colleges."
Amy: And it WORKED.
Molly: Irresponsible people who party ALSO GOT INTO THOSE COLLEGES.
Cut to next scene where a "popular girl" quips:
I'm INCREDIBLE at hand jobs but I also got a 1560 on the SATs.
I chuckled because it reminded me of a chick in high school who was was in the top 2% of our class and literally only studied and did nothing else. She was pissed this other kid who threw every major party /was in top 10% of our class, also got into Harvard.
I have to say I related to Molly and Amy circa 1st through 7th grades. I was the overly precocious and studious child. But by mid 7th grade I leaned more, "well yeah I'm on Honor Roll and yeah I love nerdy summer programs, but that doesn't mean I don't want to throw the most badass sleepover this middle school has ever seen."
I'm assuming PPD is filled with a bunch of ppl who are more "higher IQ" than not, pumped into "gifted" / "advanced" curriculum in primary school, and fellow nerds as kids, so!
Q4All:
When did you realize you could have fun and be high achievers?
Or are you currently in process of figuring that out?
Or do you not care?
If you don't care, explain why and how that affects your ease obtaining any type of relationship -- romantic or platonic.
If you do care, explain why and how that affects your ease obtaining any type of relationship -- romantic or platonic .
In both movies the protagonists are conveniently outgoing and seemingly self-assured "outcasts." (I'm not upset at this representation because from what I remember from school folks like this made up a large part of the middle.)
Q4All:
Would you agree that being an "outcast" isn't the "death knell" to why ppl don't win at aiming friends/romantic admirers, but being intentionally anti-social and/or diffident is? (For this hypothetical imagine the outcasts who aren't anti social look exactly the same as the outcasts who are anti-social).
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