![]() But at the same time it is an annotation on top of that, an annotation that blows holes in every element of it. It is a real teen movie made up of bits of what went before just like all teen movies. They demand "folded" entertainment, movies that simultaneously engage them at the manipulative level and at the same time step outside the game and make fun of it. But modern kids (some of them anyway) and movie audiences are much more intelligent than in the past. So then they go to the movies and see those same roles displayed and shaken a bit but ever so gently. ![]() Every kid is playing a role they have to because no kid has the raw material to build a life, so they copy one. That world, though populated by human kids, is completely artificial. High school movies efficiently transport us in the first couple minutes to another world because it is not only a world defined by movies, but one that we experienced ourselves. Slasher movies and their ilk are really high school movies. This one movie gives me double the pleasure of that investment. The simplest one is that I have spend a thousand dollars and hundreds of hours or so watching all the movies that are made fun of here. "Scary Movie" is one I recommend and now this one as well.
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