Mean Girls. By Julia Vera

1. Movie synopsis

It all began when Cady Heron has to go to school because her parents wanted her to have a good education. She lives in South Africa and she studied at home during her elementary education, and now she has to study in a big high school. Her first day was disastrous, but her second day she made some friends. Two of them were "normal people", and the other were the "plastic girls". They were really friendly at the begining, but when she realized that they were very mean and only thought in their bodies and popularity. They didn´t have anything in their brains.

Her first friends hated the plastic group, so they made a plan to destroy them.

In the movie you can undersatnd the superficiality, how important itis to be popular, to be skinny, to be pretty, and not the really important things.

Then Candy pretends to be a "plastic woman" but in the process she transformed into it. She manages to ruin the life of Regina (the queen bee), and Regina gets public a book of rumors of herself, but Cady has to take the responsibilities of the book. It talks bad about everybody.

After all that, Cady went back to her normal attitude, she apologized with all the high school ans learned the lesson. At the end, the group of plastic woman separated and each one did positive activities.

2) High School stereotypes.

the High School stereotypes are: you are popular if you are plastic, friendly, a cheerleader or play in a sports team. If you are a cheerleader you have to be blonde and stupid. If you are not popular you are less than the other students. If you´re intelligent you´re a nerd and people can treat you badly. The popular people are the best, you have to admire them, follow their ideas, and they have the power in the school.

The movie represents almost the real life og high school students. In USA you´re really popular if you are a cheerleader or play any sport, and the popular people "are like the best things". But in real life, the popular people aren´t worshiped , and they don´t have so much power over everyone.

In my culture it is not the same, because we don´t have cheerleaders or schools teams, but the popular people are the friendliest and usually they can annoy everyone or be stupid and still be friends of people. Also we don´t treat badly the nerd teenagers, and they don´t have to be unpopular.

3) What does Mean Girls have to say about communication betwemm different cultures?

Mean Girls demonstrated that High School Americans are very multicultural. You can see people from South Africa or China , and there isn´t any racism among them.