I love a good documentary and this, my friends, is a good documentary. Three Identical Strangers is a film about three identical brothers who were separated at birth. Each was adopted and lived within 50 miles of each other. One went to a working class family, one to a middle class family, and one to an upper class family. They didn’t meet until 1980, when … Continue reading Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Since its release in 1988, Heathers has been criticized and analyzed repeatedly for its themes of school outcasts and vicious cliques. However, I don’t think that it should be criticized. It’s a wonderful black comedy with a very real message about the inner workings of high school cliques. This film is often mentioned in the same breath as Mean Girls. Even in my own notes, … Continue reading Heathers: A Glimpse at High School Cliques Through the Lens of Black Comedy.
