American movies typically fail when they want to be edgy and transformative about the subject matter. However, except for the rare film such as Kids (1995), these movies fail to have the courage to deliver on edginess and end up merely teasing edginess.
The positive aspects of the movie. Nadia Alexander plays the ultimate mean girl. I hope her career takes off from this point. Quinn Shepherd does great as a dowdy student who gains confidence gaining some degree of agency as the movie progresses.
If the movie hadn't advertised itself as edgy I would have liked it more. It did and then it didn't deliver. With European movies becoming more explicit, American movies are becoming more PG. Quinn Shepherd wrote and directed the movie and made the decision that she would not ask her actors do to anything more telling than appearing in a bra. Understandable after all the gratuitous scenes usually involving only women. However, the movie is advertised as edgy and transformative when neither the story nor its presentation is either. The top review says that this is an amazing debut film when it is only a very competent Lifetime movie. See it but understand going in what it is and is not.
The positive aspects of the movie. Nadia Alexander plays the ultimate mean girl. I hope her career takes off from this point. Quinn Shepherd does great as a dowdy student who gains confidence gaining some degree of agency as the movie progresses.
If the movie hadn't advertised itself as edgy I would have liked it more. It did and then it didn't deliver. With European movies becoming more explicit, American movies are becoming more PG. Quinn Shepherd wrote and directed the movie and made the decision that she would not ask her actors do to anything more telling than appearing in a bra. Understandable after all the gratuitous scenes usually involving only women. However, the movie is advertised as edgy and transformative when neither the story nor its presentation is either. The top review says that this is an amazing debut film when it is only a very competent Lifetime movie. See it but understand going in what it is and is not.