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"Eighth Grade" focuses on a girl at the bottom of the campus food chain. She has always had psychological anxiety and lack of self-confidence.
In the process of solving life's troubles, she finally learned to grow up and bravely embrace high school life.
The freshness of rotten tomatoes is 98%.
IMDb 8.1.
Once the movie was released, it was praised by critics.
Kayla , a girl with pimples and a little fat figure.
She grew up in a single-parent family and has been living with her father.
She has severe social phobia, which makes her campus life terrible.
In the eyes of her classmates, she is a weird person who doesn't like to talk.
She always wins the most declining award on campus-the "quietest" award.
In school, there are too many idiots, weird, ugly people. This makes her feel that school life is too silly and boring.
Due to his ugly appearance and not good figure, Kayla has been living at the bottom of the campus biological chain.
She is like air, without any sense of existence.
She was despised and rejected by her classmates, and she didn't even have a girlfriend.
Not to mention boyfriend, leaving the single is simply a daydream.
In order to overcome her anxiety, she put up inspirational post-it notes in the room to encourage herself at all times.
However, this is of no use.
She also set a few goals for herself: become more confident, make friends, find a girlfriend, and fall in love.
She often posts some inspirational videos about self-confidence and growth on YouTube, eager to help others solve problems.
Although she has always encouraged others, she has never done it.
Heart of beauty in everyone. She especially admires and admires beautiful girls.
Every day, she learns makeup from the bloggers of online beauty makeup, dresses herself up, and becomes an exquisite pig girl.
In order to make friends with the most popular campus bitch and make herself cool, she forced herself to attend a class party.
Although he looks mediocre, mediocre, uncool, and social phobia, Kayla's yearning for first love can't be stopped.
She has always had a crush on Aiden , the most handsome boy in school .
Every time she sneaks a glance at him, the nympho Kayla will have straight eyes, saliva, and dreams.
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After learning that Aiden was single, she even planned to seduce him with nude photos.
When Aiden asked her if she would be a BJ, she also praised Haikou, saying that she was very good at it and flexible.
In order to have a love relationship with the school grass and meet the needs of the school grass, Kayla secretly learns the craft of BJ.
However, all that Kayla did was useless.
She is still the "quietest" girl, an ordinary girl who doesn't have any friends and the school grass doesn't like her.
The boring and failure of middle school made Kayla yearn for a high school life.
In a campus event, she met a high school girl, Olivia .
In Keira's eyes, mature Olivia is very cool, and she has always longed to be friends with such a cool girl.
She looked admiring and was excited to mix with Olivia.
However, after a party, Kayla experienced a sexual harassment.
This made her have questions about her high school life, and she also fell into a trough of loss.
Of course, this movie will not transmit negative energy, and even if life fails, it will bottom out.
With the help of her father, Kayla started to cheer up again and bravely welcome her high school life.
"Eighth Grade" continues a basic routine of American youth films:
Students at the bottom of the campus food chain + bullying or campus bitch + crush on an out-of-reach object + virgin body or sexual enlightenment.
The routine is the routine. This movie still relies on the delicate and true feelings and performances to make the audience applaud and applaud it.
First, the little actor has great acting skills.
Kayla's actor is American child star Elsie Fisher, and her performance is real and natural, and she is in place.
The director revealed in an interview that during the casting process, the girls who participated in the audition were all trying to act as an unconfident girl, and Elsie Fisher herself was a timid, shy and unconfident girl. She was Try to force yourself to be confident. This is exactly the role of Keira in the movie.
Arguing with Dad at the dinner table, tired of his nagging.
At the party, she adjusts her breathing, relaxes her mind, self-suggestion, and overcomes her fears.
When making friends, she will go crazy with excitement.
When caught holding a banana while studying BJ, she became very embarrassed and panicked.
When being followed by her father, she will immediately argue with her friends and not lose face to herself.
When watching large-scale sex education science popularization, she would be nauseous to BJ.
The second best is to reflect the current problems faced by American teenagers.
On the one hand, "Eighth Grade" explores the current state of anxiety that prevails among adolescents.
In the movie, Keira has been suffering from anxiety problems.
She tends to be nervous, unconfident, withdrawn, and closes herself up, coupled with the indifference of her classmates around her, eventually becomes lonely and out of group.
This is not an isolated phenomenon. 22% of American teenagers are struggling with depression and anxiety.
Insecurity, fear, despair, loneliness, and anxiety are spreading among young people. This is a problem that deserves attention and needs to be solved urgently.
On the other hand, it portrays teenagers’ addiction to social media.
Kayla has always been addicted to social media, she can't do without her mobile phone when she eats, and even quarrels with her dad.
She constantly scans Tumblr, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter every day.
In the online world, follow your favorite celebrities, watch the most fashionable gossip, share your own photos, and even have content that is inappropriate for children.
This reflects the attitude of Generation Z in the United States towards social media.
In the hearts of young people, social media is already a part of their lives, and their worship of social media is almost religious.
The third best is to let the audience empathize with the role.
The inspiration for "Eighth Grade" comes from the director's own anxiety.
This work is not only a reflection of the anxiety of teenagers, but also written for the director himself and those who feel that he is not gregarious and unconfident.
We also experience anxiety, lack of self-confidence, and even the world's prejudice and indifference.
Therefore, Kayla is not only a character in the play, but also us in life.
Life goes on, let yourself become brave and mature.
Be yourself, don't care what others think or evaluate, don't change yourself just to make a good impression on others.
Bravely integrate yourself into the outside world, face your fears, and let others know who you are.
Gradually, you will let more people really understand you, and you will be the coolest person.
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