- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2012
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Romance
- Director:
- Stephen Chbosky
- Best Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world as defined by Whites.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Loneliness | Personal change | Political Correctness | Self-expression | Sexual Repression | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
The usual coming-of-age saga of Whites desperately needing other Whites in order to find out who they are: A culture relies on the mendacity of wanting to be popular, rather than happy, to prevent Whites from looking outside their culture for the happiness so hard to find within it.
As usual with writers trying to evade the “Why” of any situation, the “What” is laid out as if it were some kind of meaningful mystery. This leaves us with a final revelation about character as trite as it is dramatically meager; making this piece as insular in its outlook as the characters themselves.
Is White culture really the self-repressive gilded cage represented here? It would appear so.
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