Critical Approaches
Film Review
In this Film review, I will be discussing two different films in which there is a lot of stereotypical nature. The two films I will be discussing are ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’. The first film is an American film, which is a comedic film. It is about a group of ‘popular’ girls, facing problems as they are introduced to a new girl and attempt to try and get a new girl of different nature, to fit into their ‘popular’ group. The second film is also an American film and is about a group of students that have been put into detention all for different reasons and learn different things from each other as they misbehave in the detention. Both of these films are narrative structure as they include a beginning, middle and end. We are introduced to the characters in the beginning, we are faced with problems in the middle and we see the outcome of the problems in the end and how they manage to pull through the different situations.
In ‘Mean Girls’, we are introduced to the popular girls one by showing us the lifestyle that each one holds. This is a teen genre and don’t have scene that are of parental advisory. The society in ‘Mean Girls’ is more suburban America. All the character live an easy lifestyle surrounded with nice houses, cars and people. In ‘Mean Girls’, there is a lot of stereo typical behaviour. Not only are these ‘popular’ girls the ones with all the nice things, but as we go through the movie, which is based in a high school. We realise that they are not the only ones who have been stereotyped. In the high school, there are different categories. We see the ‘Emo’ group, the ‘Geeks’, the ‘Footballers’ and the ‘Cheerleaders’. The target audience for this film is mainly teenagers as it plays such a common ‘teenage lifestyle’. Like the teenagers of today, they all face problems with physical appearance, fitting in and friends. This film plays on that and includes as much of these problems in the film, as they can.
In ‘The Breakfast Club’, we are again, introduced to all the different characters that may have to put up with each other for a very long time during detention. Each character is introduced in a car as they are dropped off. However, we automatically have an idea in our heads of what kind of background the character may come from. This is another film in which we see a stereo typical nature. We have a ‘Bad Boy’ that doesn’t care about anything, The ‘Frigid’ girl that is popular, but innocent. The nerd who wants to be popular and the weird girl whom is trying to find herself. However, in the end we discover that they all have a common interest or relation which is their parents. They have all had to face obstacles in which they discuss at the very end and come together as one and confess. Throughout the film, we see the stereotypical behaviour of each character. The way in which they speak to each other, down to what they choose to eat for their break, defines their character in such a stereotypical way. The ‘popular footballer’ eats the most out of the group, the ‘popular girl’ eats the most rich food and the ‘Gothic girl’ combines several different types of food in a vile manor and downs with a fizzy drink.
Both these films that I have discussed, issue the topic of stereotype in teenagers in America. The films introduce us to the characters and we see each individual social group and how they deal with obstacles they may come across. Both of these films still have different genres. In ‘Mean Girls’, it is more comedy whereas in ‘The Breakfast Club’, it is more based around Drama.
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