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You know I'm fascinated by this movie. I think it is very provocative and has a lot more going on underneath the surface of it. I think there are a lot of religious metaphors in the movie. This is just my opinion but I think James Franco's Alien is suppose to be the devil. Now I know this sounds crazy but when he first introduced himself he says "I'm not from this world, I'm from outer space" (not verbatim and point being he is not from our world) also "y'all were praying in there, maybe I'm the answer to your prayers." Cut to a few minutes later when the girls are at that hangout with him Selena Gomez's Faith character gets very nervous and scared and starts crying how she wants to go home...alien talks with her seductively and tries convincing her to stay and she keeps saying "what do you want from us? I think you should leave me and my friends alone." She leaves. Near the beginning of the movie the preacher is talking about temptation and the girls outside at the meet/ccd/faith class tell faith "watch out for Candy and Brit, they have 'Demon Blood." Not a coincidence that they are the two girls the movie sees through. There so much more to it than that but rewatch again and apply some of this. I think it makes a lot of sense but to each their own. Just my opinion.

I missed the first five minutes-I definitely feel like this is one of those films you can watch several times and always gain insight regarding the story.

Without the first part, here's my first thoughts:

They seem to fly by the swat of their pants and aren't giving much credit to thinking things through, being realistic, and we see their sense of entitlement along with instant gratification being their downfall.

In everything they did, it was as though they "cross that bridge when they get to it." Each one eventually was showing a bridge to cross back into reality.

Provocative movie and very well done-even if Franco pulled off looking like Kevin Federline better than Federline does.

I can't sum it up in a sentence, but what I find interesting is that people take up gang-banging because they don't have other options. But these pampered middle-class, bored white girls, who DO have other options, are so hedonistic they get drawn into what is really a dead-end lifestyle because they relate to the sheer MATERIALISM of it. And they take to it like a fish to water. I agree that "Alien" is a devil-like figure.

Of course, the movie is SATIRICAL. In real-life even white middle-class BOYS may play gangsta, but they're not going to form a gang and successfully shoot it out with REAL gangstas. They would if they HAD TO, but they don't have to. But the American Dream is not entirely materialistic. It seems that way at times, but it isn't REALLY. But this is what might happen if it becomes totally materialistic.

"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"