Heathers

Heathers was one of my favorite movies we have watched all semester. It was surprising to see all the violence included in the film in that context because it isn't that way today. Back then, suicide wasn't a reoccurring thing and a movie like this wouldn't do so well today because suicide has touched so many people. Too many bad things have happened in today's society that movies like this making a comedy out of something horrible wouldn't do well. I was surprised at how raw and honest the film was and it was one of the things I enjoyed most about it.

Comparing the film to Mean Girls is interesting because they are very similar yet very different. Besides the suicide, Mean Girls is more realistic to what happens today in high schools. Yet Heathers tackled issues in a similar way that Hollywood Shuffle did. Is it truly okay to laugh at the things in this movie? Because they actually are horrible things that everyone deals with, especially bullying and suicide and the struggle to fit in/be popular. When the very fat girl, Martha I believe, tried to kill herself because it is what the popular kids were doing, I was so mortified because it is very sad in reality to think that someone might think that way. The reading states "It’s the superficially flip manner with which it treats those subjects that really stands out. Heathers doesn’t do heartwarming messages." The film didn't do heartwarming messages, but showed the audience them in a different light, same as Hollywood Shuffle did with racism. 

I think Heathers is smart and original and it is a film that I would watch again. It kept me entertained the entire time wondering what was going to happen next because it is a movie that doesn't hold back.