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Film: Booksmart

I am an idiot for being suckered by the trailer. Booksmart is an objectively bad movie. Bad, as in, the story is poorly told. All the major "turns" of the story are false and driven by the sense the story must change direction and not by any emotional logic. The basic visual storytelling tries to hide a "style" behind what amounts to illiteracy. It's like a reading a book with grammar mistakes.

What can be said in favor of the the movie is the casting. It's good. Two main girls have chemistry. Side characters are vivid as well and many are given nice moments. Some standalone scenes and even sequences are pretty good - particularly towards the end. But as a whole, I would not recommend the film to anyone with somewhat decent taste in movies.

There are other major sins. The lesbian storyline(s) have zero sexual chemistry. None. And in doing so, reveals something about the intentions behind the marketing and making of the movie. It's overly concerned with being a female-empowerment, LGBT empowerment, a Girls-can-make-Superbad too kind of film, and swaps any soul that might've been for being "woke."

Go watch Fleabag instead. Or Superbad. Or Sideways. Or shit, even Riverdale.