![]() She is what I would imagine a high school shooter would be like if men didn’t already own exclusive rights. I do want to note that Courtney, Marcie and Julie could have gotten away with it if they had pinned it all on Fern. Her body is later tugged at and pulled in multiple directions, like a blow-up doll on break. This movie starts off super traumatic – I watched while screaming into my pillow as Liz Purr, teen beauty and grace, gets hogtied and thrown in her friend’s car. My fun walk down memory lane became a true emotional exercise. Best friends were enemies, men were dumb jocks and no parent allowed gay children in the house. This movie is the opposite of feminism, and instead of women lifting each other up, its message is what I call the “90’s Conundrum”: a disregard for public health, and full of white privilege, jealousy and bad habits. The clothes! The cliques! The horrible dialogue! Mean Girls is baby stuff compared to Jawbreaker because you know, murder. Jawbreaker came out in 1999 when I was 10 years old and already a true cult follower of Can’t Hardly Wait, She’s All That, and The Craft. In the time of the Spice Girls and white people’s blissful ignorance, we were graced with Jawbreaker, a film with B-List actors, (among them Rose McGowan pre-Harvey Weinstein fame and Pam Greer, Judy Grier, Carol Kane and… Marilyn Manson!?) a real satire for us to sink our teeth into. This is the original Mean Girls! I eagerly started taking notes and recording memories… I’ve seen it a thousand times and love 90’s nostalgia. When I was asked to write a piece for Jawbreaker, the obvious answer was yes. SummerScreen, Brooklyn’s free outdoor film series, returns this Wednesday, July 11, with the 1999 dark comedy Jawbreakers. ![]()
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