I actually think this movie was great, but I wasn't a rich kid. And why do the characters in this movie, much less the people who liked it, need to be PSEUDO-artistic types? Can't some just be ACTUAL artistic types? Can't non-artistic types like it too? How do you happen to know just how artistic, pseudo-artistic or non-artistic the posters are who are defending this movie? I was a middle-class to lower-middle-class kid who was in high school in the mid-90's and I was and am a musician, which I guess would qualify as an actual artistic type, and this movie definitely resonated with me.
As for the Paul Rudd type of teacher, it's a shame you never had one like that. I had three of them in high school, to varying degrees. I had a great history teacher, music teacher and another teacher that taught different subjects during different semesters. I actually bonded with all of them over music mostly. While my friendship with the history teacher was limited to my high school years, my connections to the other two continued afterwards.
The one that taught the various courses, by some fluke, ended up related to me by marriage (he married my wife's older cousin, who it happened taught at my high school, though I never had her or knew her at the time). One day we were at my wife's grandmother's house and I just happened to look at some pictures sitting on the shelf and was shocked to see my teacher in one of them, and that's when I found out the connection. We see each other at family reunions and it's always great catching up.
With the music teacher, he asked me to sing for the school band, and all the guys I played with in a separate band joined the school band too. We got to know the music teacher really well and after I graduated and the teacher moved out of town, the group of us guys would go up to visit him for the weekend occasionally and play music with him in his home studio. And after I got married, my wife and I would sometimes go visit him for dinner when we were in his area. This summer will be 15 years since I graduated high school and I still sometimes keep in touch with him when I have time. That music teacher had a huge formative influence on my life and my love of music. So there really are teachers like the one Paul Rudd played, and then some. Unfortunately, there are also terrible ones, and I had a lot of those too.
My wife and I both found that this movie did a really good job of capturing the emotional essence of our high school years and group of friends.
And, BTW, the main character, Charlie, was not from a rich family.
Take care
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dailyshampoo48
11 years ago
Pseudo-artistic types call themselves artists and yet make bad art, typically because they are too self-involved to make good art. I found the characters in wallflower to be pretty self-involved; the entire film was unbearably self-absorbed.
Charlie was definitely from a rich family; his house was two stories, full of stuff, and he had his own bedroom. He clearly lived in a very nice neighborhood. The kids at his school threw wild parties, wore new clothes, and bragged about college admissions results. That's rich.
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rek16803
11 years ago
Charlie was definitely from a rich family; his house was two stories, full of stuff, and he had his own bedroom. He clearly lived in a very nice neighborhood. The kids at his school threw wild parties, wore new clothes, and bragged about college admissions results. That's rich.
Most ghetto row houses are 2 stories. The are full of stuff too, sometimes full of Air Jordan sneakers, .45 Cal handguns, Plasma TV's . leather jackets, hoodies and more.There are wild parties in Ghettos too,where kids wear new clothes bought with welfare checks and drug profits. They get admitted to college with affirmative action quotas as well.
Guess Ghetto thugs are rich people too. Who wouldda thunk?
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dailyshampoo48
11 years ago
I lived in the ghetto, did not party, and did not own a flatscreen tv, although I do receive welfare. Unfortunately my checks are so small that if I had to survive on them alone I'd be forced to choose between food and heat. Fortunately, I have family.
And yeah, sometimes I buy new clothes. Like, when my old ones wear out.
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