A friend of mine gave me this for my birthday. I viewed it with some suspicion ("this doesn't look like science fiction," thought I), but it was a fine, fine film. Very much in the tradition of "But I'm a Cheerleader!" A coming of age film cum Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this case, we learn the government is using the SAT to pick girls for special ops teams. The state seems to be making very little effort to foster any sort of moral growth in these girls, instead preferring to use peer pressure and intermittent parental approval to mold them into Super Solders. With, as near as I can tell, large clothing budgets. Subtly transgressive; these girls are essentially sorority pledges who didn't even know they were rushing. Or whatever they call it. One falls hard for the improbably named Lucy Diamond, a supervillain, who falls hard right back. The story of their love is a sweet love story in an otherwise ironic take on the way society molds us to serve its needs.
If you don't have patience for parody of the standard tropes, or you don't like Buffy, you won't like this film. I thought it was great fun.
In this case, we learn the government is using the SAT to pick girls for special ops teams. The state seems to be making very little effort to foster any sort of moral growth in these girls, instead preferring to use peer pressure and intermittent parental approval to mold them into Super Solders. With, as near as I can tell, large clothing budgets. Subtly transgressive; these girls are essentially sorority pledges who didn't even know they were rushing. Or whatever they call it. One falls hard for the improbably named Lucy Diamond, a supervillain, who falls hard right back. The story of their love is a sweet love story in an otherwise ironic take on the way society molds us to serve its needs.
If you don't have patience for parody of the standard tropes, or you don't like Buffy, you won't like this film. I thought it was great fun.