The movie Mean Girls shows how girls interact with one another. The girls in the movie are very mean, especially to one another. It also is a good example of cliques, and how girls can be very backstabbing. In Mean Girls, there is a burn book which has bad things about every girl in the school. Most of the things are not even true. No one should write mean things about anyone, whether they are true or not. Mean Girls also has a lot of cliques. A girl is not allowed to talk to someone who is not in her clique. The Plastics, Jocks, Nerds, Cool Asians, and Band Geeks are just some examples of the cliques in the movie. In the movie, Katy sabotages Regina. She gives her food to make her gain weight, foot cream as face wash and many more. Although, I hate to admit it, I think this movie does portray how girls act. I know there have been times when I have talked behind someone’s back or done hurtful things to them. It is really sad to think that girls are so mean to each other. Do you agree that girls act how they are portrayed in the movie? Are there Cliques in our school? Do you have a personal experience where you have been mean or when someone was mean to you? Do you think there is a way to change this type of behavior?
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Mean Girls is a really good movie, and I really enjoyed watching it again. Watching this movie in class made me see it in a different way. It made me realize some of the truth behind the movie and how girls really act in the real world. I think the movie did accurately portray the way girls act in real life. For example when Cady talk about “word vomit”. I know I have experienced that before. You blurt something out before you have time to think about what you are going to say. Also, the Burn Book is an example of things that girls really do. I remember back in middle school when someone started a website that posted mean things about all the girls at the school; that is almost exactly what Regina and her clique did in the movie. To answer Allison’s question about cliques, I would say yes, we do have cliques at our school but I don’t think they are as extreme as they were in the movie. People at our school are not afraid to be friends with people in different cliques. I don’t think there is really a way to totally change the type of behavior that goes on between girls in middle school, and high school. It would be very difficult for everyone to get along. A lot of people have different views and personalities, and you can’t make them all get along with each other especially when they are teenagers. Eventually people grow up and tend to accept people’s differences just like they did in the end of the movie.
Like Claire said, watching this movie class was very different than from watching it outside of school. This movie is such a good example of how girls act. Also, like Claire I have experience word vomit too. It is so hard to think something but not to say it. I also remember when a website was started in middle school. It is terrible that people would do that to each other. It makes the person who is written about feel awful about themselves and the person who wrote it does not feel any better either. Caty experiences this when she is in the math competition and has to go against the other ugly girl. She realizes that hurting others is a waste of time and it will not let her win the competition. I am a girl and I know I have done something mean to a friend before, after watching this movie I began to reflect upon myself. It makes me really sad that girls would do this and to think I have done it myself makes me feel even worse.
I agree with Allison when she said that girls act just how they were portrayed in the movie. The burn book however I think took it a little to far. I doubt even if someone were to have a burn book. It wouldn’t cause the same reaction if the students found it. I think that the movie also may have taken all of the generalizations to the extreme. Our school does have cliques. This I think happens because people like to hang out with other people that have the same interests. I don’t think that the cliques are so extreme however. I think people mix more than just being the band geeks or just being the jocks. Everyone seems to somewhat get along. Mean girls did a great job of portraying high school girls and how they act but it could have done better with not going to the extremes.
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