To the best friends we've all had

Christiana 2021-12-17 08:01:15

Will there be a plot like the one depicted in the film in your life? You work hard, exercise enough restraint, and run towards the goal without any distractions. Even if you miss all the fun around you, you feel that it is worth the money, because the goal is in the front and the end is there. The ultimate beauty is teasing your finger. Until one day, when you find that "all roads lead to Rome", the cruel reality has been in front of you. When you stood at the fork in your life, those who have been laughed at in your heart for countless "stray people" quietly walked in front of you before your laughter died down. What's more, they face the full It's a dense forest of thorns, fiddling with the resources in your hand is like finding a shortcut, smiling at you at the end (the director simply mentioned the "entry fraud" in the United States through "Yale University"). Just like the heroine in the film faces, should she smile bitterly? Should be angry? Or continue to paralyze each other with mutual flattery like looking at others? Or try to walk into the "wrong way" she once despised and experience the beautiful scenery in the eyes of others?

The film expresses the director's choice in a comedy way-don't set too many restrictions on yourself, and keep an open mind to the people around you. The director cleverly borrowed the attitude of the two girls towards love to reflect their attitude towards life in the future. From the beginning, they each had their favorite goals, although sometimes the ambiguous attitude of the goals made them hesitate, but they didn't realize it until they saw them kissing. After the two girls changed, they were relieved, paying attention to and accepting other possibilities around them. I think they will definitely find the perfect partner for them. Just like their future life, they will be more flexible under the premise of the same big goal. , Richer, more enjoyment of the process instead of forcing the result.

In the movie, two girls ride in a four-person car together. Everyone's performance is very different from usual. This in itself represents the complexity and contradiction of each of us. The subversion of values ​​that the two girls encountered at the beginning was due to the fact that their lives were too flat, and at the same time, they believed that the lives of others could be seen at a glance. It wasn't until after they had quarreled without mercy with each other that they gradually realized that the beauty and uniqueness of each person is precisely because of the three-dimensional and multi-faceted personality. The most commendable thing is that when you find that the people around you are so "imperfect", you still hold each other's hands to support each other, and face the unknowns of life together.

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  • Winston 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    In fact, no matter from the content, the relationship between characters, or even the climax of the quarrel and then reconciled, it is a clichéd American youth film routine, but this movie is that everyone is cute, the jokes are real and unpretentious, and the girl's bad boy comedy is also A perfect blend of brutality and innocence. What I don't quite understand is that a (ordinary?) high school can really apply to so many Ivy League schools... Those who spent millions of dollars to buy them don't hurry up and transfer...

  • April 2022-04-23 07:02:24

    Laughed together, went crazy, fooled, middle school, quarreled, cried together, a lot of time, youth that can be swayed endlessly.

Booksmart quotes

  • Triple A: I'm incredible at hand-jobs but I also got a fifteen-sixty on the SATs.

  • Molly: We haven't done anything. We haven't broken any rules.

    Amy: Okay, we've broken a lot of rules. One: We have fake IDs.

    Molly: Fake college IDs, so we can get into their 24-hour library.

    Amy: Name one person whose life was so much better because they broke a couple of rules.

    Molly: Picasso.

    Amy: He broke art rules. Name a person who broke a real rule.

    Molly: Rosa Parks.

    Amy: Name another one.

    Molly: Susan B. Anthony.

    Amy: God dammit.