Note to all aspiring filmmakers, when your lead actress starts to recollect about her dead parents with the same amount of emotion and passion that one would use in reading out loud the cooking directions of a can of soup, (add one can of water, stir) you have problems.
This dialog is while on the back of a motorbike so what do you want her to do, jump off and fall to the ground crying in a ball. She almost got knocked down by a truck five minutes earlier. She may well have gotten a shock and feels numb, whatever, it really doesn't matter. YOU can't judge how SHE feels about what happened to her parents. WHEN it happened she may well have been crying curled up in a ball. This isn't that time.
I tried so hard to like this film
Oh that's good, so it must be the films fault not yours that you found issue with it.
but as soon as the teacher appears in khaki pants and a dress jacket, so hip (maybe in 1992) that he quotes David Bowie
The teacher looked fine the way he was dressed. Are you the Fashion Police as well now? And "Ground control to Major Tom" is so well known from Space Oddity who really has an issue with that? Oh you do, and you matter because you tried so hard to like this film. When the teacher, who was shockingly dressed like a teacher, made a statement taken from popular culture, well naturally, that was it for you.
If there was no teacher scene you would have liked the film perhaps? Maybe you liked the film up until you saw the teacher scene. It's all credible stuff you're writing because clearly that teacher scene was just ridiculous. It was so badly written and so badly acted that it was the clear turning point for you while you "tried so hard to like this film".
and the same lead actress warns the cool, outsider that french fries and other random greasy diner food will give him a heart attack (something all young people fret about)
Um? You're kidding, she's an athlete and she's a girl. There is nothing wrong with what she said about fries.
I gave up.
Two completely normal, completely well written and acted scenes caused you to "give up".
Well thankyou for your very informed and well reasoned opinions about this film. Someone from MENSA will be contacting you to act as your sponsor, as your truly unique mind should be shared with humanity for the betterment of mankind.
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