I was talking to a friend about the movie, and he said that the students were alienated from their parents, school, society, and eachother. Are they really alienated by all those groups? And why do you think all those kids were appealed to the pirate raido broadcast? Was it because they wanted to rebel?
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It's like he says in the movie, sex is out, drugs are out, everything is on hold, we definately need something new! They are all so bored, because everything fun was done by their elders before they frowned upon it when the next generation came along. Mark gives them something to stimulate their minds.
39# "You're doctor Jekyll and Mr Jackass!" 39
He is the only one who isn't filling them with *beep* and giving teens a voice. Having Mark broadcast on air what adolescents are all thinking but couldn't say aloud is giving the adults a state of mind, the way they react just shows what could happen if a teenager spoke of what we are really thinking.
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well the school they went to was run like a boarding school for starters...like Paige said in her speech at the PTA meeting.."we're all scared to be who we really are"...."I'm not perfect"...etc. That and you have to remember this movie was made in 1990 meaning the beginning of a new decade and most people of the 90's wanted to leave the yuppie excess of the 80's behind. Just think about how different music was in that period of the late 80's/early 90's..rap was starting to get into the mainstream white culture..."alternative rock" was beginning to grow (Nirvana broke through a year later). That's why the film was ahead of it's time really. Between the soundtrack and the way PUTV and Heathers buried the sappy cliched bratpack 80's teen movies.
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