Good high school fare.

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2006)

There was a lady interviewed in the Enron movie, The Smartest Guys in the Room¸ who said something to the effect of "For me the only mythology really is high school mythology." That sentiment resonates with metoo a very large extend, my high school experience is my own mythIf all of my experience prior to high school is the Genesis of my life, then high school is the equally important, perhaps more important, Exodus of my life. Ten Things I Hate about You also appreciates the mythical potential of a high school story, with its icons, the immensity of the protagonist's investment in his desired object, the emotional intensity of the conflict, it's all there, not as good as in Say Anything, but then again, this is, at least in the explicit sense, more of a high school movie than Say Anything, though Say Anything represents the more intense impressions that I associate with my high school years. The implications of how it is most natural to translate Shakespeare's plays into high school stories is connected to the mythical potential of those stories.