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| | The High Sign: Girl Movies: |
 | | But all three of these movies subverted my expectations: one was a little better than I’d hoped, one a little worse, while the third was, properly speaking, not a “movie” at all, but a brief, fevered glimpse into a previously unsuspected entertainment limbo that haunts our own world like some nightmarish alternate universe. |
 | | These movies turn the hell that is high school into a mini-allegory for society at large, usually by establishing hierarchical typologies (the popular kid, the jock, the outcast) and tracking the ascension of the protagonist from one rung of the hierarchy to the next, watching her (it’s usually a her) become everything she ever hated. |
 | | Chained since the age of one to the drudgery of churning out TV series and straight-to-video movies for children (almost 40 of them in their 17 grim years on earth), the youthful media moguls have the burned-out gaze and hangdog servility of an interchangeable pair of organ-grinder monkeys. |
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