I did. You know, the scene whenever Beth looks around and realizes it's all over for her.
# MARK MY WORDS, I MIGHT BE SOMETHING SOMEDAY
I cried at the locker room scene.
I was zipping up my pants and pinched myself.
"What the f-ck is the internet?" -Jay, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
It was sad because it was true. As was her speech when they were watching the sun rise. People like her only have High School to hold on to, their lives will probably never top that experience. The stereotype that the popular girls or jocks end up pregnant or working at a fast food restaurant are more times truth than fiction, especially if they're mainly concerned with their social lives and couldn't care less for their grades. I used to be like that in junior high and my grades really screwed me over for when applications for the good High Schools came around.
shareWhile the movie itself could have been better, there were some interesting themes that presented themselves about the alternate realities between life in high school and life after high school. My only problem with the way it was presented is that I know very few 17-18 year old kids who are introspective enough at that point in time to understand that everything can (and usually does) change after high school.
In my own experience, I come from a small Midwest town where local HS sports were everything. I chose not to go that route, choosing music over athletics, and was socially ostracized because of it. However, 20 years later, after having had a 10 year career as military bandsman where I was regularly at the White House doing ceremonies, and still playing and gigging on two different instruments, things have come full circle. Many of those popular jocks who got all the girls are now fat, living lives that are quite boring compared to the life that I lead. The other major plus is that my kids think their rockin' Dad is cool.
Having said all of that, I didn't know back then that things would turn out this way, and it took me a while to realize that having artistic or intellectual gifts actually made people popular among their adult peers.
What does that have to do with Beth crying?
"I'm not educated, but I'm a lot of fun!" - Sam Puckett.
I guess my rambling was my way of saying that while her glory days of high school were over, most real high school kids are not that introspective or aware that they are at the end of an era. I.e., her crying was interesting, but not that realistic.
I added my own story to illustrate that it does in fact happen - that for many of the popular kids, jocks, cheerleaders, it's all downhill after graduation, but that for others (myself included) like Denis Cooverman, while HS might not have been the greatest, they will move forward to successn and a much better life.
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I come from a town of less than 2000 people, so yeah, a lot of those people are my facebook friends, and it's pretty easy to keep tabs on who is doing what - not tough when your graduating class was about 50 students.
I'm merely trying to point out that there is life after high school, but a lot of those who are the stars of their school don't seem to realize that, and their glory days were all prior to age 19. Once they get out of being the football superstar or the head cheerleader, they migrate into very normal things, and people who were otherwise ignored or ridiculed wind up leading lives that many would argue to be more rewarding.
I agree.
I too was nerd. ( I am still a nerd, but anyway.)
Skinny, bullied, unpopular and mocked.
But I loved music and arts. Now I am 31, and music is becoming my way of life, I have a band, another personnal music project, I am a sound engineer and not skinny anymore. I still love nerd glasses though.I Wear them on stage while playing and singing hard rock, until they slip because of the sweat on my nose LOL!
I would NEVER trade my life , talent and existence with any of these buttholes.
just in case, here is our myspace
www.myspace.com/leadstonerocks
"Suck my b*tch,D*ck!"
It's true though.
shareYou cried?!? Wow
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I cried throughout the whole movie!
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