Mean girls

 

 

 

Mean girls is about a  girl who moves to the US from Africa and starts at a new school. She immediately befriends two outcasts, who explain the school's social scene. There are a group of three girls (the Plastics) who are popular, mean and rule the school. On a lark, these three girls befriend Lindsey Lohan. Her outcast friends encourage her to hang out with the Plastics to see what they do. But as she spends more time with them, she becomes more and more like them, backstabbing, mean, self obsessed, and superficial.
When Lindsey Lohan and the leader of the Plastics go after the same guy, she begins to plot their destruction, and starts sabotaging the girls in worse and worse ways. Eventually she alienates her original friends and her Plastic friends. When the entire school finds out about some of the terrible things the Plastics have said about them by finding a "Burn Book" everyone turns against the Plastics and Lindsey Lohan.
Eventually, she must apologize to everyone she hurt and begin to find a way to become a better person.

 

Themes:

• Love
• Location (High School)
• Music: (Young and relates to girls)
• The characters: protagonist characters are all teens so relates a lot to teenagers
• Feminism

 

Stereotypes are represented throughout the film. Stereotypes is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. such as the 'dumb blonde'. One of the girls are called Karen (Blonde) where she makes ridiculous and diabolical statements throughout the film shown as brainless by stating that she could check the weather with her breast. There are many other  different cliques you see: “the Plastics” the most popular girls; “the Jocks” this is the most popular boy that every girl desires to be with and the “nerds” which is stereotyping all the clever pupils. However this stereotype is challenged because being clever doesn't necessarily mean you are a nerd, this is shown as Cady who turns out to be popular is actually really smart and gets top grades.