Easy A

This movie isn't exactly new, but it was the next movie on my blockbuster Que. And with seeing Emma Stone in Crazy Stupid Love, I wanted to see her in something else. I wasn't sure what this movie was about before viewing it, but I have decided I like going into a movie not knowing much and letting it tell me the story from scratch.

Nothing drives me more crazy than watching a movie with someone that wont wait for the movie to explain something. Seriously, just wait. That might be why I am privy to going to the movies alone or I am just that pathetic, not sure.

So Easy A is a Mean Girls like movie. They are so much a like that they are both stared with red heads that narrate the movie. At least one isn't crazy. Emma Stone is an average girl in high school, and one day her friend asks her about her weekend and Emma Stone, who is rather sarcastic in the show jokes that she was with some guy from a community college. The friend begins to assume that she had hooked up with this guy, and all of a sudden the rumor spread through out the whole school. She was now the school bimbo.

Now we all have had rumors started about us, and we can react two ways, either you deny it, or not deny it. By not denying it people just assume it is true. That is the road Emma Stone chose, and mainly it was because people now noticed her, she wasn't average anymore. Then the rumor turns to more rumors and she is now getting return from guys to just let them say things happened, but in all reality nothing ever happened. She then is playing into the rumor and it gets to the point where she starts to believe it and she hits rock bottom. The ending was alright, a little anti climatic, but it was creative in a sense that it incorporated things that had been mentioned earlier in the show, so maybe a cute coincidence.

This movie really brings out the question do we care what people think about us if we are getting attention? People want to be noticed, even shy quiet people, people that make fun of popular people, everyone wants to be noticed. Its just natural.

But does it matter what is getting us noticed. This girl had let a rumor between her and her friend change how the whole school thought of her. And it wasn't good, she was the girl that slept around with everyone. In the end the movie shows that it does matter, that it is better to not be noticed than to be thought negatively. And really people notice a lot more then they let on, so why make what they notice be negative.

One of my favorite parts about the movie was the interaction between Emma Stone and her parents. It was a lot of give and take, and sarcasm, and I thought that the family was well casted. Overall an average movie, funny lines but just mindless entertainment really.