"This is a really volcanic ensemble you're wearing, it's really marvelous!"
Duckie
Pretty In Pink
1986
Pretty In Pink captured the essence of capitalism following a socialism type movement and of course the elite socialites in just a few years of high school. Friends, acquaintances and even those analogies tied to what we call "the teen years", can be identified as characters in the role of life, playing each others self worth. Yet, this time, one who's a bit crazy and one who's just pretty in pink find a pull towards the anomalies called love when true friendship and outcast become up against each other for the same girl.
I think about this film and how perception rules the school and follows the image of Duckie, Blaine and Andie through a triangle that to the obvious is slightly connected at the tip, yet, to society a little off in geometry.
I think about status and rankings in today's world. Is it as prevalent as when Andie and Blaine experienced it in the late 80's? Was where and who you came from just as important?
Seems like today is a bit more forgiving than perception some twenty years ago. Seems like today has become more accepting of things outside the norm than things that are supposed to fit into a perfect little box called popularity. Today has become more capitalistic though, the corruption of money and finances has overcome the perceptions surrounding the socialite and the elite; well maybe not; maybe it has never gone away.
I recall being in high school, wasn't that a trip? The power the girls had over the boys and the weakness the boys had over the girls.
Can one help who they fall into so hard for?
Can one help finding a way around someone that is unobtainable?
When I see love today, I see commonalities. When I see lust today, I see imperfection. It seems as if status and perception all come together when love and lust are confused.
Did we want Andie to pick Blaine? Or did we want Andie to embrace Duckie?
Friendship for the right reasons is about loving them knowing they can only be your friend. Wanting that friend to be your lover, well... I guess sometimes opposites just seem more profound to attract. Sometimes status outweighs any financial differences, because ultimately what defines one relationship, becomes the catalyst to the content in another.
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