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Added 2025-10-03 02:07:21 +0000 UTCComments
I love the logic tree that Elle’s questioning follows during the courtroom scene. I know it’s not 100 % realistic, especially the part about the sorority sister’s perm being allowed, but it reminds me of a Phoenix Wright/ Ace Attorney game. Pressing the witness in many ways asking them to reframe their answer until they slip up and add a detail that contradicts their testimony and the evidence. Then jumping on that seemingly minor contradiction and using it to expose more lies and contradictions until you get them to crack and prove they were actually guilty. She asked about the shower over and over in different ways until she finally got Chutney to add the detail that she was washing her hair. Then she pivoted and asked about what she did earlier to get Chutney to admit she got the perm. Then she established that Chutney would know that she was not supposed to wet her hair based on how many perms she had gotten in her life, exposing the logic flaw behind washing her hair after getting a perm. She exposed a tiny thread of doubt and pulled it, until she unraveled all the lies.
Wild Wesley
2025-10-24 21:54:05 +0000 UTCRewatching this movie as an adult, I see so much more nuance and complexity than I did as a kid. Specifically the different kinds of sexism Vivian and Elle faced and the different ways they responded to it. Vivian, who had been raised to believe and bought into the idea that femininity was not to be taken seriously, didn’t notice the discrimination that Elle faced because she embraced her femininity. She even participated in that discrimination because she could only see Elle’s pretty privilege. Yet despite rejecting aspects of femininity, she was still treated like a glorified secretary by Callahan. Elle, on the other hand, wasn’t as outwardly discriminated against by Callahan. She’s still dismissed by him, but he doesn’t openly treat her as bad compared to Vivian. Instead Callahan, who doesn’t respect women, wants something different from Elle than a secretary. What’s awesome about Elle is that she is so empathetic. Instead of dismissing Vivian’s feelings about Callahan’s mistreatment because she isn’t experiencing it, she affirms Vivian. Elle had every right to be mean to Vivian, to think that Callahan’s behavior wasn’t inherently sexist, to think Vivian was just getting bad karma for being mean to her (like the audience might be set up to believe), but she doesn’t. Elle reminds me a lot of Taylor Hale too. She is treated poorly by so many of the other students because she fits the stereotype of the mean pretty girl that probably bullied them and they take their insecurities out on her. The scene where the lesbian woman assumed she’d be homophobic reminds me of how Taylor was assumed to be basically a devil spawn because she was a confident, beautiful black woman who competed in pageants. I love that Elle, Taylor, and Ashley aren’t afraid to call people out, but instead of returning the vindictive behavior, they meet them with grace and kindness, turning enemies into allies. It shows that they are confident and not arrogant, so their belief in themselves doesn’t come from being better than others or tearing them down, but instead in believing in their own self worth and uplifting everyone.
Wild Wesley
2025-10-24 20:47:03 +0000 UTCI didn’t even make the connection until Vivian popped up in the movie that Elle also turns enemies into allies.
Jenny D
2025-10-06 17:22:31 +0000 UTCChuck (the pool boy’s boyfriend) always confuses me because what do you mean you’re fine listening to your boyfriend lie on the stand about sleeping with a woman, but you very publicly call him out and storm off when he claims you’re just a friend?
Jenny D
2025-10-06 16:46:34 +0000 UTC
