Mean Girls Film Critique - 1288 Words

Austin Ruggieri May 2, 2012 Adolescence Mean Girls The movie Mean Girls is about a girl who has grown up in Africa and was homeschooled all of her life, named Cady. She is a 16-year-old white girl who has to learn how to adapt and change to her new environment, which is in a suburban area and a new completely average high school. Cady already knows that the laws of the jungle and the survival of the fittest but must now understand how to play in this brand new urban jungle. When she arrives in school she befriends an unpopular girl named Janis and her homosexual friend Damian, who quickly become Cady’s new best friends. Cady starts to have feelings for Regina’s ex boyfriend Aaron Samuels. When Regina finds out, she decided to†¦show more content†¦Secondly I will be discussing the idea of peer conformity. The adolescent peer group can be seen as both a problem and a necessity. In the movie whatever Regina says, her friends do. Regina believes that keeping these particularistic norms are created like only b eing able to wear certain types of clothing on certain days, and allowing only certain types of jewelry. Regina keeps her friends in formation in order to create a social status to show that her clique is better than the rest. (Pg. 157) However, after Cady takes a new role as second in command in the clique the changes in the structure begin. Cady creates a participant observation (Pg. 158) in order to infiltrate the â€Å"Plastics† so that she can take down Regina, but because Cady starts to fall for Aaron, the changes in the clique start again. Studies show that young people indicate that there are important changes in the structures of cliques and crowds during the adolescent years, primarily driven by the increased importance of romantic relationships. (Pg. 159) Cady began to engage herself in her quest to achieve a relationship with Aaron more than she did taking down the â€Å"Plastics†. 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