Movie certainly not reflective of my life as a teen, nor my peers.
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ndsopranorocker — 10 years ago(December 14, 2015 05:57 AM)
Sex and drugs were prominent in my middle school, but I never got involved in either one. I was violently ill when I was a teen, and I didn't want to risk mixing illegal drugs with drugs I was prescribed. On top of that, teenage boys are horrible to people who are sick, even their own.
The cutting? That I saw every day. A lot of my friends cut themselvesone to the point where she was repeatedly hospitalized for it. Probably, I would have done it if I had not needed surgery every year (my teenage tagline: 'I don't need to cut myself. I can pay a surgeon to do it for me.') -
HalfBloodPrincess1967 — 10 years ago(January 11, 2016 07:40 PM)
I agree. I never saw any cutting, or cut myself. There were drugs and sex going on, but not by me.
Kids that age can be horrible-PERIOD, sometimes. My life in Jr High was more like Welcome to the Dollhouse, except my home life wasn't like Dawns, but I got bullied A LOT. I was very protected and isolated as a kid, and was rather nave as a result, but I would have seen through Evie right away.
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thenmadewild — 9 years ago(April 06, 2016 08:38 PM)
I was very protected and isolated as a kid, and was rather nave as a result, but I would have seen through Evie right away.
This sentence resonates with me. I was the same, (and also bullied) and for a while, when I thought of how I wasn't cool in middle/ high school, I just explained it in my head like "well, the cool kids never offered that to me". I thought that if someone as 'cool' as Evie had wanted to be friends, of course I would have gone along. But later, in my 20s, I developed a better perspective on things and realized that actually, there WERE times when I had those opportunities, but I never followed them. I didn't think those offers were sincere, or at the very least I didn't think I could fully trust those people, and so I kept myself at a distance. Now that I look back on it I realize that not everyone would have reacted the way I did. A lot of teen girls would have jumped at such opportunities, even if it meant the risk of being made a laughingstock or ending up in some worse situation, because they were that desperate to be accepted. I didn't actually want that as badly as I thought I did at the time. Not badly enough to take that risk. So yea, I guess if an Evie had come into my life I would not have done what Tracy did. No matter how much I identified with Tracy when I first saw this film, I've come to realize that I wasn't really that much like her. My lack of dangerous teen rebellion wasn't just a fluke, as I'd previously thought it to be.
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SerDarioTaranFulci — 10 years ago(March 08, 2016 03:31 PM)
I'm surprised there are people who have led such terrible lives in first-world nations.I suppose all the terrible adults I see in the world had similar upbringing as Nikki.
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MaharishiBibo — 10 years ago(March 24, 2016 07:08 PM)
Even if you grow up in a loving and caring environment, things can get pretty bad especially as a teenager, and don't think parents or other adults will notice, especially if they haven't made similar experiences on their own.
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roraio — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 01:17 PM)
I was thirteen when I first watched this movie (the irony!) with my then best friend, who was also thirteen. I am from Europe and not from a first-world country, born in a good family, attended public schools, both me and my best friend. While most of the things depicted in this movie seemed a bit exaggerated to me, some of those things do happen if you lead them. My best friend started dyeing her hair at the age of fourteen; she had an older sister who started smoking, getting tattoos and piercings before flying out the nest for college, so my friend followed her path, getting her tongue and belly and upper ears pierced before she finished high-school. I had been in the same class with her since kindergarten until we both graduated high-school. But we stopped being friends in, like, seventh grade, because she became the popular girl - the 'Evie' of my school, everyone wanted to hang out with her, she started dating older guys that she'd met in the neighborhood or through her sister, she made an image for herself. And I did not follow her
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. I remained the geeky girl, who didn't smoke or get piercings or tattoos. Hell, I didn't even have boyfriends. Because of the obvious recent differences between us, I just let her be, and she let me be too, although on occasions she'd voluntarily come to my rescue if I was bullied, which I silently appreciated. We haven't spoken in almost ten years now, but we keep track of each other on facebook. Her parents had a nasty divorce and she moved to a different country with her mother. She'd been through a lot, but she also got rid of her piercings and bad habits when she hit coming of age. We both graduated from college with top marks this year and I wish her the best. So I think seemingly bad people can change too, especially if they display rebellious behavior at a fairly young age, with or without counselling/coaching. -
kristinepunktum — 9 years ago(July 20, 2016 06:01 PM)
I can sadly identity with this movie. It came out after I was 13 myself, and was given to me by a girl in my high school class because I used to be depressed and act out in anger and self destruction.
I started drinking and smoking at 13, and there were definitely Evie Zamoras all over my school when I was a kid.. They even dressed like the girls in the movie, some came from well respected families who never suspected that their dear children could do any wrong, while the worst ones came from broken homes witg addict parents who had partners come and go every month. I'm from Norway, Europe - and the stuff depicted in the movie is still true to this day. It's even been used as a scare tactic for kids who are in that age group.
Some call this movie a clich and overrated, but for many it's their life. Tracy is clearly resentful at her parents, her dad for abandoning her, and her mother Melanie for being a pushover and letting her crackhead boyfriend back into their lives. I recommend watching the 10-year anniversary clip on YouTube by Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Woods. -
ndsopranorocker — 9 years ago(November 23, 2016 11:32 AM)
There were definitely people in my class having sex, doing drugs, and stealing when I was thirteen. I wasn't exposed to any of those things directly. What I did see firsthand, however, was when my best friend at thirteen cut herselfand quite deeply I might add. Cutting, unfortunately, was a big part of my friends' lives at that age. The only reason I was not a cutter was because I had surgery almost every year in my adolescence and cutting myself was too much of a trigger. My joke among my friends was "Why cut myself when I can pay a surgeon to do it for me?"