I thought it was a campus comedy

Maia 2021-12-09 08:01:33

Watching a lot of American campus youth comedies, or inspirational warmth, or funny and absurd, always have a bright ending. In this film, although there are also indispensable elements of the campus drama of the football quarterback and his beautiful girlfriend, it is different from the Disney movie. Maybe, is it more real?
Except for Tracy, everyone else in the show is equally unpleasant. The only thing that looks more pleasing is the quarterback's sister Tammy, who likes her speech during the campaign: Do you really think anything can be changed? The only thing that can affect is the elected person himself.
Who cares about this stupid election? We all know it doesn't matter who gets elected president of Carver. Do you really think it's going to change anything around here; make one single person smarter or happier or nicer? The only person it does matter to is the one who gets elected. The same pathetic charade happens every year, and everyone makes the same pathetic promises just so they can put it on their transcripts to get into college. So vote for me, because I don't even want to go to college, and I don't care, and as president I won't do anything. The only promise I will make is that if elected I will immediately dismantle the student government, so that none of us will ever have to sit through one of these stupid assemblies again!...
Or don't vote for me... who cares? Don't vote at all!
This is a comedy that makes people laugh, except in the end when Jim throws a drink at the limo where Tracy is sitting and rushes away.

In addition, the director + screenwriter is Alexander Payne, the director of "Drinking Life".

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Election quotes

  • [Jim and Diane are having sex]

    Diane McAllister: Oh, God, oh, just like that, yeah. Fill me up. Fill me up. Yeah! Fill me up!

    [Jim imagines Linda's face on Diane's head]

    Linda Novotny: Oh God, just like that. Oh yeah, fill me up. Oh God, just like that. Do it, Jim, fuck me!

    [suddenly Tracy's face pops over Linda's]

    Tracy Flick: Do it, Jim. Just like that. Do it, Jim, fill me up. Just like that. Do it, Mister M, do it. Fuck me, Mister M, fuck me.

    [Jim is a bit disturbed but somehow it makes him even more enthusiastic]

    Tracy Flick: Fuck me hard, Mr. McAllister. Harder! Harder! Fuck me, Mr. McAllister. Fuck me hard. Harder! Fuck me! Please!

  • Jim McAllister: Larry, we're not electing the fucking Pope here. Just tell me who won.