Now and then a teen flick comes along that really works. Easy A is entrancing, witty, and fun.
Valerie and I have worked in schools, so we know how easily rumors abound. Playing on this theme, Easy A tells the story of a cute teen who, frustrated with the idle chatter of peers, plays a massive hoax: she claims to be the school slut when, in reality, she awaits her first real date with a young man!
No more info than that, dear readers, lest I spoil the story. Emma Stone is as cute as a pistol, and, like other starlets including Alicia Silverstone, Zooey Deschanel, and Amy Adams, worms her way into your heart.
Remember Ellen Page in Juno? Emma Stone is quite similar in character: witty, smart, sassy, pert, and clever. And she has liberal parents who charm in their own retro way.
The "A" theme? Seems our young upstart has become entranced with the theme of rejection in The Scarlet Letter. Thus the outrageous A on the dress.
Get ready to re-live all the joy and misery of your adolescent years! Thumbs up!
Oh, yes, way too familiar. I watched this recently. Wanted to see it because I had heard very good reviews on the Valley's own Emma Stone (Scottsdale, I believe). It was cute. But I must admit, I had to suspend my viewing for some reason and the next day I just was not sufficiently compelled get right back to it. Never did. But it was doing its job for its theme, and as an Eng. teach, I enjoyed the Hawthorne allusion.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I had to return a second time to this one. Forgot that young Emma is an AZ product. She was great in Zombieland. As former teachers, we tend to feel the pain of kids, don't we?
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