'Booksmart' is a funny, messy love letter to teenage girls.
When I was starting college, a high school friend who was at Yale told me that one of her fellow freshmen had hooked up with so many different guys in her first weeks on campus that she'd been given the nickname"Turbo." I was naturally aghast: I hadn't gotten into Yale or been promiscuous. How come Turbo got to do both?
Molly, up to now, has probably thought that personality works like character attributes in a role-playing game, with a fixed, equal amount of points distributed over different traits: You can be good at soccer, math and drawing, but also dyslexic and acne-prone, say; everyone will acknowledge that you're the best actor and singer in your grade, but they'll also always remember how you threw up in your own purse the first time you got drunk.
In this case, the aspect of teen life that's being heightened and romanticized is the way in which kids use lofty ideals, uncompromised principles, and big ambitions to cover for the things they perceive as awkward or unformed about themselves. Molly and Amy's interactions are always mutually supportive—the two have a bit where they gag at each other's fashion choices , delivered by Feldstein and Dever with a rapport that makes it clear this is a running joke in their friendship.
When they do get to the party, it may remind viewers of a very specific age of the video for Jimmy Eat World's"The Middle": a teen house party, filled with perfect young bodies in pale, wet-looking flesh tones , where everyone who isn't the protagonist seems to already be making out , until two scared, withholding kids find each other having retreated into an empty room. And why not? Because, listen.
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