Easy A

I got a pocket got a pocketful of sunshine! I loved that scene so much, I need one of those cards now. Olive singing and having that song stuck in her mind is literally me when I find a new song to obsess over, and leave it on repeat This was a really fun, yet meaningful watch. I honestly loved this film, the cast, the acting, and how it takes on very comical, yet we also see various serious scenes and ideas shown. Emma Stone. I could genuinely go on and on about her, her acting is so incredible, and whenever she steps into character she really becomes them. She plays Olive perfectly, we see her personality and the person that she is, her expression are so good and we really get a feel of her characters in each of her films. Olive starts turns into the person she never wanted to be just because of false rumours. This film really shows how fast rumours spread and how fast lies start to pile up. Everything starts off with a rumour that Olive’s friend Rhiannon spread, that she slept with someone, but he wasn’t really, she’d just makes him up to avoid going camping with her weird family. Olive quickly becomes consumed by these lies and rumours that she takes on this persona of someone she isn’t. She becomes known as a slut, a whore, that she’s basically slept with half the school, which all started because of a singular rumour. All these rumours have been spread about her, yet she doesn’t deny them, and she wonders is that’s wrong, maybe she had wanted this attention that she’d never gotten before, that she’d wanted to be seen, but this was the wrong way. Tons of people tart to hate her for what she never really did, and she starts to hate herself too. I also love how th film is sort of narrated, at parts with Olive’s webcast, each new part is another part of the story (with really long titles). It is told through her podcast, in which she unfold how far her lies went, and admits the consequences to her actions. She realized that it wasn’t right, to lie to all these people, even though some of those lies were to help people, like Brandon, who just didn’t want to get bullied anymore, and others, What really hurt me is that Olive started to believe these rumours, and though that even she knew they weren’t true, because of how much was constantly going around, she started to believe them. The first date she thought she’d finally gotten turned out to be just for sex, Anson thought she’d pay her to sleep with him, and when he started to kiss her and she refused, he began to throw himself at her. Olive becomes solely known as this person she really isn’t, and that her own best friend was no longer by her side. Rhiannon was never a good friend in my opinion, she’d never really treated Olive well, and she always sought out more attention, and just really wanted that. Though I do have to say, I was absolutely obsessed with her wardrobe, especially her tops, I need her entire closet. One person who’d always be there for her, and was there when she needed someone was Todd, the boy who’d she wanted to kiss since 8th grade. Despite all those years, he’d still remember how’d she’d been his “fake” kiss, it was the first lie she ever told, before the whole spiral downfall. She becomes known for her horrible reputation, and completely loses herself I’m these lies, but she eventually knows they have to stop. The scene with the unexpected musical sequence was an absolute blast, and unexpected way to get people to see her confession of her lies unfold. The soundtrack was also perfection, the mix of the different genres and sounds, I loved it. The end scene was so funny and beautiful, Todd and Olive riding out on the lawnmower, unexpected but really shows how love isn’t perfect, it has so many ways of showing itself. Overall, the message of this films is to shoe people how fast lies spread like wildfire, and the struggle to fit in, especially in high school. It also brings forth the idea that a women’s choices are nobody business, and it really shows many themes and conflict that exist in high school and throughout your teen years. I loved this movie, it’s really fun and light-hearted but also has a great message for the audience. “Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies”