Movie Analysis Summative

Heathers


In this specific movie, a clique of girls who dominate the school experience a different sort of friendship. Out of the four girls, three of the girls' names are Heather while the other girl is Veronica. Being the most popular girls at school comes with a lot of pressure, which is why Veronica wants out. Soon, her interest in a new boy, J.D. spikes as she sees potential in his bad boy rep to help her out of the group. Soon, she realizes that JD pushes her to the extremes, such to as killing her best friend and other acts she never thought she would have done.

The first layer of the story is what is obvious, Veronica being tricked to kill her friends, but then taking on a new persona with this new desire and letting it grow by itself. By going out with JD, this new desire and hunger settles as her relationship with him helps that desire and hunger grow and take a life on its own.


The next layer would be why Veronica wanted out of the clique and why Veronica wants JD to be the one to help her as she seeks for a response. This layer will include not only her own opinions, but the opinions of other people around her, who have an influencing factor on her. Such as having JD, such a dark character that does not look at the bright side of things beside her, will strongly influence her decisions. Besides, it isn't just any kind of relationship, but it is a girlfriend/boyfriend scenario where they are likely to listen to one another more than a casual friendship.


The third and final layer includes her history, how she was brought up and her place in society which has serious influence on Veronica and how she grew up. It seems that Veronica has had a normal childhood, but what is untold can say a lot. Maybe in her past, there were some events that led her down this path. As well, choosing JD as her love interest is also another influencing factor since she has never been into his type. Why she chose him and why she had such a change in taste greatly influence her in every way.


Even if none of these layers show any sign of darkness, darkness can always be conveyed through the characters. When Veronica use the fire of the explosion to light her cigarette, it revealed the dark nature of her as having the guts to cause an explosion that cost a life and using it to light her cigarette which revealed her cruel nature. Such an event perfectly conveys darkness in the movie.


A character is able to represent darkness by how they choose to express themselves as in what kind of clothes they wear or what their taste in music is. A story or the writer is able to convey darkness through the setting as well because it sets the mood and tone of that scene or the whole story. Such as in Harry Potter, the whole movie seems eerie and gloomy because the movie is about the fight between the good and the evil. 


A text to world connection can be made to every girl, or even guy, that wanted to leave the group they are currently attending and trying to find different ways to do that. Although the measures taken will definitely be less extreme than those that Veronica took, it can still relate as the desperateness to be anything but a part of something that is happening at the moment. 


The EQ of choice that I chose to answer is : Are we implicated in injustice and what can we do about it? This specific EQ relates very well with the character of Veronica as she finds herself in the middle of injustice against her best friends and instead of stopping it, she goes along with it. JD is the root of the problem along with her desperate need to escape the group, but as her relationship with JD grows, she finds that he feeds her desperate need with his knowledge of things that are beyond her expertise. What Veronica could have done was put her foot down and decide that this was not the way that she wanted to carry out her plan, but instead, she was taken over the desperate need and heavily influenced by JD's knowledge of darkness. 


I improved my piece by adding onto each idea and really identifying it as well as putting in more examples to justify myself. I also expanded the piece and full developed each idea.