Fitting in is not always an "Easy A"

Rating: Null/10 (9 December 2012)

A 2010 teen comedy about how little white lies can turn into rumors and rapidly spread briefly changing a young girl named Olive Penderghast 's (Emma Stone) life. Olive lies and says she has a date in order to avoid going on a camping trip with her best friend Rhiuannon Abernathy(Aly Michalka). When both girls return to school on Monday and Rhiuannon ask about the date Olive then tells another lie. The lies keep mounting and Olive begins to lie for others as well. The lies result others popularity improving and yet others getting hurt. When Olive realizes she is in too deep she tries to get those that she lied for to tell the truth and when that does not work she holds a web cast revealing the entire truth to the school population during a pep rally. The movie "Mean Girls" is another film that has a similar theme in the sense that teenage high school girls tell lies and spread rumors in order to fit in, gain popularity, or to have others believe they are someone different. When Olive begins embracing the role that she had created, she stitches an "A" on her clothes to represent adulterer. This is a motif seen throughout the entire film that can be tied back into the theme by showing how rumors spread through the populous can affect the individual's outlook on their own life. The scenes where Emma Stone's character Olive is continuously listening to "Pocket full of Sunshine" on the greeting card helps the viewer gain an understanding of who Olive really is through music. In conclusion, "Easy A" affectingly captures and recaps how the teen years are full of the painful anguish that is the balance act between trying to be ourselves and attempting to fit in. Emma Stone plays the role of Olive and portrays her with a spirit full of radiance which is not commonly seen in today's youth. She proceeds to drawl the viewer in even more by truly capturing the spirit of Olive whether she is showing the pain from hurting others or singing in the shower. This movie could be used as an example of what lengths an individual will go to just in order to fit in with everyone else.