Mean Girls

Mean Girls is a movie that is very popular. It exhibits an outsider entering the teenage sphere of high school. Cady, the main character, is from Africa where she was immersed in observing animals. When she comes to high school, she notices that the behavior the other student’s exhibit are much like those of wild animal’s. Through Cady’s perspective, the movie shows how animalistic and cruel high school can be. She compares the many social groups to herd of animals. High school, in reality, is not exactly like this. The exaggeration of how strict society is, however, reveals that there are, in fact, some rules that people think they must oblige to.Some of the satiric aspects in this movie are how “the plastics” act. They live according to strict rules such as wearing pink on Wednesdays, avoiding sweatpants, and avoiding hoop earrings (they are solely Regina’s thing). Adherence to these rules can buy one popularity while ignorance of these rules takes popularity away. Rules such as these seem comical at first glance but they are a hyperbole of modern societal rules. In reality, no one will be kicked out of the lunch table for not wearing pink on Wednesday (hopefully). By over exaggerating high school, this movie advocates for an escape from societal pressures to a more laid back culture where one’s appearance or popularity are not the determining factor for their personality. Similarly, with the plastics, the movie suggest a superficial aspect of society. The movie’s solution to this is to just be honest, as revealed in the end when all the girls gather in the gym. When muddled with pretenses and facades, the movie claims that, society becomes hostile. Also, the movie depicted high school as a jungle. When the animals, who were represented by the students, did not work with each other harmoniously, the jungle fell apart.

Clip from movie