Since last weekend, this year's college entrance examination results have been announced one after another. I believe that the high school family at this moment must be laughing and crying.
Marnie still remembers that after my college entrance examination, my mind was almost in a state of "reloading the system", and the only expectation was to organize the first graduation trip of my life with my former comrades in arms.
I don't worry about grades, don't think about college, I just want to be reckless and make up for all the youth I missed in three years of high school in the next two months.
I believe that there are many graduates who have this kind of idea. No, two sisters in the United States have similar ideas——
"Top Student"
Always bend, perfect girlfriend
Molly and Amy are two very ordinary female students in a college in the United States.
Molly, the fat girl, is a typical academic bully . She ranks among the best in the school. She also serves as the president of the student council, leading the whole grade.
Molly pursues excellence and perfection in her life. She planned her life early and was admitted to Yale University before graduation.
Molly looks strong and cold on the surface, but she is actually inferior. She secretly has a crush on Nick, the vice president of the student union, an embroidered pillow full of blond hair and blue eyes.
The cowardly Molly didn't dare to express herself, but forced herself to look like she despised Nick, which is also a typical example of disgusting uprightness.
Generally speaking, the friends of a scholar will only be a scholar, and Molly is no exception.
A good friend, Amy, is a top student with excellent academic performance. Her future is bright, she was accepted to Columbia University before she graduated, and her parents made travel plans for her during the holidays.
Amy is introverted and gentle, and the most outrageous thing she has ever done in her life is to come out publicly - Amy has always fantasized about applauding her love with cool girl Ryan, but because she is too shy, she can only rely on pandas at home alone Toys are hilarious.
Molly and Amy are well-known schoolmates in school, because they study as hard, as boring as they are, and as arrogant as they do things.
As top students, they are not the kind of "geniuses" who say they never study, but they spend all their energy and time studying hard.
They refuse extracurricular activities and give up all entertainment in adolescence. Other classmates are in love, skateboarding, stage plays, and parties, but they dedicate all their time to study. The tangled issue is never what to wear today, but Should I go to Harvard or Cambridge?
Their only pastime is doing video crosswords on weekends. Wow, that's really entertaining!
Gradually, they became more and more out of tune with the classmates around them, and they were chasing the domestic third-tier city colleges and universities in the degree of slenderness.
Molly and Amy naturally despised these idle half-assed people.
From Molly's point of view, these classmates who spend their time on dressing up and parting will inevitably become losers in society in the end, and this moment is the pinnacle of their lives. And her and Amy's bright future is just beginning.
Molly and Amy's sense of superiority persisted throughout their high school careers. It wasn't until the day before graduation that Molly overheard her classmates making fun of her outfit behind her back.
Molly, who was used to being the boss, naturally wouldn't be cowardly, she walked up to the three classmates with a look of disdain, and boasted: "It's okay, you can continue to joke, but when you speak ill of others and study yourself, My mother is busy studying hard and getting into Yale."
Molly thought that she could step on the other side with full-point pretense this time, but who knew that the words of the three classmates "Loser" made her completely refresh her three views:
The simple-minded and well-developed little brother Tanner entered Stanford University as a sports student.
The angry Special Olympics, although the grades were repeated twice, but because of his excellent programming skills, he received an offer from Google, and he can sit on a generous salary without going to college.
As for the bad girl Anna, who is rumored to be unruly in her private life, she was admitted to Yale with a high SAT score of 1560 (SAT score of 1600), which means that the two old enemies will continue to love and kill each other at Yale.
Molly can't believe that these classmates who are usually despised by her have been admitted to prestigious schools and have bright futures.
This sudden stimulation made Molly frantically ask the whereabouts of each classmate, followed by a large wave of serial injuries:
Embroidered pillow Nick has received an admission letter from Georgetown University, and Gigi, a rich lady who is babbling about, is about to go to Harvard University.
Standing in the carnival crowd, Molly's long-standing worldview completely collapsed:
Why do these people get admitted to a good university even though they never work hard?
Why do you have to work so hard to get the results that others can easily enjoy without any effort?
why?
- "Because it's not that we don't care about schoolwork, it's just that we don't only care about schoolwork."
Molly was so unwilling. She was unwilling to devote herself to studying hard for many years, and refused to return to all entertainment. It turned out to be the same as Loser, who she looked down on.
And now, there is only one last night left until the graduation ceremony. In order to seize the last chance to escape, Amy decides to go to Nick's graduation party with Molly.
On this night, they have to indulge and get back their lost youth...
Nerds can be fun too
This youth film from the United States has actually taken on the atmosphere of Chinese students, which is what surprised Marnie the most.
After watching a lot of American youth films, I always feel that American high school students do not need to study. Their high school life is spent in various parties, extracurricular activities, and extracurricular adventures.
It turns out that it wasn't quite like that. American high schools also have "nerd top students" who study hard and are taciturn.
The group of "nerd top students" is obviously huge, but it is the most taciturn in youth films. Their existence is very embarrassing, and they appear in various youth films as background boards and negative representatives.
In this group, it seems that there is nothing to save except good grades. They are self-disciplined and immersed in their studies. They are not like rebellious teenagers (females) who are very romantic. They have a lot of bloody youth stories to write; they are not like profligate Rich second generation, there are enough exciting topics.
So no one will pay special attention to this group and make a movie for them.
This is the most unique aspect of this film. This different perspective has made the strict film critics give a high score of 84 on MTC, and even listed it as a "must-see film of the year".
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 97% freshness rating. It can be said to be applauded and applauded.
Although the two protagonists in the film are both rookie actors, their acting skills are a little immature, but their faces are full of collagen and youthful vitality, which is just right for a comedy.
And the director of this film must be someone you can't think of - Olivia Wilde , who has starred in "Doctor House" and "The Fastest Love" in the American sexy actress.
As the debut film, this film is not the kind of day-to-day campus comedy that you can see and forget. On the one hand, it points out that learning and entertainment are not opposed to each other. On the other hand, it also tries to explore the problems behind education. It is the helplessness of ordinary students.
This is also the place where Marnie feels the most about the film.
The first slap in the face of reality
I believe that many people have experienced a psychological gap like Molly. Whether teachers or parents, teach you to give every cent from childhood. When others are busy in love, you are crazy in the study room, and when others are in love. When you are partying, you are staying up all night and studying hard.
Until the moment you get your report card, you still believe in trying to make you the best person you can be.
However, when you look up, you find that those who are addicted to fun have stood at the end early. When you finally stand on the road of life leading to Rome, you will know that some people were born in Rome.
The opportunity that you strive for with all your might can be easily obtained by others by simply writing a letter of recommendation from a famous person, and proudly admiring your face full of consternation and unwillingness at the finish line.
Anna proudly told Molly that "we just didn't care about schoolwork" because she had better conditions. Gigi, who is full of makeup and dressing up, can enter Harvard University without any effort, which is only her fifth choice.
And Molly, who came from an ordinary family, can't do it. She has to grit her teeth and persevere in order to break out of the army.
Is it fair? Certainly not fair.
There is also Brown, the principal of Molly and Amy's high school. Although he is the principal, he has to get off work part-time as a Didi driver to make a living;
On the contrary, the second-generation rich Gerd, the travel tool is a retro sports car, the graduation party is held on a private yacht, massage, casino... What he has at this moment may be something that Principal Brown cannot enjoy in his life.
Some people say that the college entrance examination is by far the fairest way to compete in this society.
Of course not! When you have worked hard for three years to enter the university, and found that those old classmates who never took classes seriously are sitting in the same classroom as you, you will know that the college entrance examination is never absolutely fair.
It's fair, limited to ordinary students like Molly and Amy. They who lost at the starting line can only catch up with the "Romans" by putting in more effort.
So, if you're a top student like Molly and Amy, don't be ashamed or regretful for "missing high school."
Because only when you "waste your youth" on the desk and study hard day after day, can you finally enjoy the lost youth at the graduation party with no regrets...
As for whether Molly and Nick can successfully hold hands, and whether Amy's journey to escape is realized, it is up to you to see for yourself.
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