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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Extended Reading
  • August 2022-04-21 09:02:10

    Has Payne become too dull in recent years?

  • Winfield 2022-04-23 07:02:10

    Last week, American Beauty was played immediately after this one, so I felt a little bit compared to it~ It's a fast-paced movie, the editing and music are very good, and the poster is very good if you look closely!

Election quotes

  • Dave Novotny: It know it seems crazy, but, Jim, what I'm trying to tell you is that Tracy and I are totally, totally... in love.

    Jim McAllister: [in disbelief] In love?

    Dave Novotny: Yeah. It's serious. She inspires me in ways that Linda never has. She even wants to read my novel.

    Jim McAllister: But you haven't written your novel.

    Dave Novotny: That's the whole point! I've got the whole thing right here, I just need to get it out there. And Tracy wants me to write it so she can read it. It's beautiful.

  • [Dave's affair with Tracy has been discovered]

    Dave Novotny: [tearfully] Tracy's mom, she doesn't understand.

    Walt Hendricks: No, I'd say she doesn't. The fact is I have never seen a mother so upset. All right, I know what Tracy told her mother, what her mother told me, I need to hear this from you, because I have a legal responsibility here. Let me ask you this... Did you cross the line with this girl?

    Dave Novotny: I... We... We're in love.

    [he sobs helplessly]