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Suburbia - Chick in the pink prom dress ...

posted 20 years ago by sceej65
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I know this is going to come off nasty but when the chick in the pink prom dress is stripped, I remember me and the people I saw it with thought it was hysterically funny. Yeah, Skinner showed her no respect with his come on ("I think I'd like to f*ck your brains out.") but she was so damn cocky the way she got up in his face and blew him off! And can someone explain to me WTF she was doing at the show in that get-up. Probably overanalyzing the thing but later one of the guys said he thought she was meant to represent disco music in general (the way she was dressed - all glamor) and the scene showed that she and her kind were no longer relevant. When I saw the DVD, the writer/director Spheeris was kind of mockign that character and what happened to her. I remember one of the girls in our group said that she was lucky it was only the guys who got their hands on her, she and her friends would have humiliated her even worse.

[–] ProtoClone 16 years ago

Sorry man but I don't feel this really represents us in the best of lights. Yes we have been known to give someone a real hard time and maybe get rough...but that was not cool. I think at any of the shows I went to you would've seen girls jumping up to help her...no matter who she was. Then guys attacking that guy for starting it.
I have to question the writer, and anyone, who felt this was what it was like to be punk during that time? Is that what it really was like?

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[–] I_Shall_Be_Released 13 years ago

Well she was in shock and completely surrounded. I don't think anybody knows how they would react in a situation as traumatic as that until you're actually in it. It would be pretty scary.

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[–] TheBrianLad (36) 6 years ago

Stripping the girl and then standing around in a circle taunting her is pretty f'd up. Seems to me that if the scene wasn't broken up, she was going to get raped.

But I don't agree when Sphreeris says the things like shooting dogs should have been left out of the movie. I think they work to get the viewer out of their comfort zone. Just when you think this is going to be a fun movie about some punk kids, something shocking happens that reminds you about the environment these kids are living in, and the consequences of their lifestyle and attitude.