My third Emma Stone movie on this list that I have crossed off. I believe this is the final one. Cheesy high school movies are for sure my guilty pleasure. There is something so easy about watching a high school movie and nothing is hard to interpret, everything is pretty mindless. Easy A had been on my list for a while. Clips from the movie always used to come up in my explore page on Instagram and since I have been intrigued.
High school student Olive tells a lie to her best friend about sleeping with a college guy over the weekend. Another student overheard and by the end of the week, the hallways were flying with rumors. Despite it being a lie, the students start to see Olive as a slut and the original rumor gets pulled apart and transformed. Olive gets approached by a friend who is in the closet. In an attempt to not come out, he asks Olive if he can lie and say that they had sex together. Olive agrees and this trend only continues. Rumors get worse and worse and her reputation gets tarnished. Conveniently, Olive’s English class is reading Shakesphere’s The Scarlet Letter. As a statement, Olive stitches the letter “A” to lingerie tops and wears them to school.
I thought this movie was cute. I really don’t have many thoughts. I really did like the incorporation of A Scarlet Letter, I thought that it was clever. One thing I didn’t like is how nobody believes her the entire time. I understand that kept the plot going but I became increasingly upset when she would talk to people and nobody would believe her or understand what was happening. That is actually how the story started altogether when she told her best friend that nothing happened but her friend didn’t believe her. I grew upset when even the teachers that she talked to did not get what was happening. They would send her off before anything was actually dealt with. Although I really enjoyed the incorporation of A Scarlet Letter, I didn’t feel satisfied with it because I felt like none of the other characters understood it except for Olive. Again I feel like that is kind of the point but there was something not satisfying about it.
I would give Easy A a 5/10. I think the plot was cute but some parts felt forced and rushed. I felt that anything with meaning to the story was kind of brushed to the side. I think it was cute and in certain situations, I would recommend it. I think this would be a good movie to watch with friends but nothing super special.
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