I think this movie is laden with heavyhanded irony; while a lot of it is
inexplicable, poorly edited and just plain strange, the main thing I
took away from it was that while these girls thought they were starting
a "revolution", they were only hurting themselves.
Case in point; the girls try to get back at Guy #1 by trying to force
sex on him at gunpoint. It fails, but they think it was a success. The
rest of the males in town think it's hot, and want it to happen to them.
A couple of more feeble attempts are made at controlling males at
gunpoint, but also fail miserably. Instead of realizing that they are
getting into these situations themselves, and allowing themselves to be
used by guys, they get even angrier at the men of the world.
The whole dynamic of the girls' lives seems to be that they are rich
prep-school stoners who dress flamboyantly and have rigid, antiseptic
relationships with their parents. The decor of their rooms and the decor
of the girls themselves is probably monstrously tacky on purpose; not
meant to be taken literally. It sort of shows you what's in their heads;
fluff, feathers, glitter and smoke.
In their desperate attempt to be feminist/radical/revolutionaries who
defend the honor of women everywhere, they take the completely wrong
path and wind up raped, messed up and worse. They allowed themselves to
be used, and then got furious at the men for using them. They handled
the whole thing in a childish, super-hero-wannabe way. And they paid for
it.
I think Thora Birch looked cute in those goofy getups. Even though her
character made little or no sense. I saw her as the ultimate
rich-kid-acting-out-against-parental-control archetype. And her
now-learned sister gives her a nice life lesson
inexplicable, poorly edited and just plain strange, the main thing I
took away from it was that while these girls thought they were starting
a "revolution", they were only hurting themselves.
Case in point; the girls try to get back at Guy #1 by trying to force
sex on him at gunpoint. It fails, but they think it was a success. The
rest of the males in town think it's hot, and want it to happen to them.
A couple of more feeble attempts are made at controlling males at
gunpoint, but also fail miserably. Instead of realizing that they are
getting into these situations themselves, and allowing themselves to be
used by guys, they get even angrier at the men of the world.
The whole dynamic of the girls' lives seems to be that they are rich
prep-school stoners who dress flamboyantly and have rigid, antiseptic
relationships with their parents. The decor of their rooms and the decor
of the girls themselves is probably monstrously tacky on purpose; not
meant to be taken literally. It sort of shows you what's in their heads;
fluff, feathers, glitter and smoke.
In their desperate attempt to be feminist/radical/revolutionaries who
defend the honor of women everywhere, they take the completely wrong
path and wind up raped, messed up and worse. They allowed themselves to
be used, and then got furious at the men for using them. They handled
the whole thing in a childish, super-hero-wannabe way. And they paid for
it.
I think Thora Birch looked cute in those goofy getups. Even though her
character made little or no sense. I saw her as the ultimate
rich-kid-acting-out-against-parental-control archetype. And her
now-learned sister gives her a nice life lesson