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The way she acted after the party?

posted 15 years ago by MoviePhAnaTic
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I understand that Alexa Vega's character was bullied, but i don't understand why she freaked out so bad when she went to go to the party and there was no one there? Why be embarrased? No one was there. She cares so much about what other people think, as almost everyone in high school does, but to freak out so bad after this, when nothing even happened? I can see freaking out over the other stuff.
Wouldn't OD'ing and not doing it well enough be more embarrassing?
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[–] XoluvpinkXo 15 years ago

She freaked out because she believed their lies again, she put her trust in those girls once more and again they broke it. She realized all they wanted to do was hurt her.

[–] Munequita_xx 15 years ago

It was a build up of all the things that happened. I was in a similar situation about a year ago, except I didn't overdose on pills. But like Vanessa, I put my trust in a group of girls that I thought were my friends, and after all the things they did, there was just that one thing that just set me off, and I had a hysterical crying episode much like Vanessa.

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[–] kphilpttop 15 years ago

What those girls were doing was horrible, but her biggest flaw was to be so codependent on those girls, she just gave them the weapon to hurt her. Her own victimization and weakness. Basic therapeutic analysis 101.

[–] deem_bastille 10 years ago

I know this thread is five years old but you have to understand....

nessa is a young teenager. 14ish. FOURTEEN YEAR OLD GIRLS ARE EASILLY VICTIMIZED ONCE THEY ARE THE VICTIM. she is weak, she is supposed to be, she's a little girl!

if teenagers were supposed to handle these things like adults would then they would be allowed to live outside of their parent's homes.

OH THANK YOU GOD! THANK YOU SO BLOODY MUCH!!! Basil Fawlty

[–] whitespirit26 15 years ago

Very profound, k, now try miraculously curing all girls of that age who rely on their friends for validity with that wisdom.

[–] whitespirit26 15 years ago

Because it was the ultimate betrayal, Movie. The last and final way of her best friend telling her she didn't give a damn about her. Doesn't matter if she was alone; she'd spent all that time being happy, getting ready, and that in itself was devastating to her. Plus, she knew perfectly well that Stacy's crone bitches knew all about it and would be endlessly mocking her pain.

[–] Catnip86 15 years ago

But then she took her so-called best friend back again, only to have her print out the private e-mails and show them to her friends.

[–] whitespirit26 14 years ago

Yes, to which she exposed and dropped her. Quite obviously.

[–] rosek102 11 years ago

Yeah, I do wish they'd left out the whole part where Vanessa let down her guard with Stacey AGAIN, and she printed out the text messages. I'd like to believe that Vanessa learned a little something from everything that happened prior to that. It would have made more sense if she just kind of ignored Stacey up until the end, and then Stacey maybe showed the other girls an email that Vanessa wrote long before.

As for her breakdown after the party...as others have mentioned, it was a final emotional breakdown after pretty much holding everything in up until that point. She knew she had put her trust in Stacey yet again, only to be betrayed again. When she's on her bed screaming, right before they cut to her mother in the kitchen, you can hear Vanessa say out loud, "God, I'm so stupid," or something to that effect. She had been foolish, and she knew it. Again, her trusting Stacey again near the end was a bit of an overkill, though, and the movie would have been better if they re-wrote a bunch of stuff for that ending. Among other things, I think Vanessa telling Stacey off didn't necessarily have to happen in front of the whole school.

[–] whitespirit26 10 years ago

I think, though, that that was why Nessa wasn't that hurt at the end; part of her wasn't that surprised, and she was ready by then to drop Stacy if she proved to be an unworthy friend.

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