High school as the setting kind of is the movie's biggest flaw. If they were sorority sisters, not only would the movie make much more sense but the cover up would have actually been plausible.
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Yeah but in college would you really care about being popular, they would have to completely change angle. Such as the sorority had the same networking benefits and the bone skull society.
shareI wouldn't limit girl-on-girl cruelty to high school. I would hear from a lot of adults as a child that their female bosses were the Courtney Shane's in their world.
It's not about popularity persay, more about exclusivity. In every social setting there will always be that group of girls whose lives sound like a soap opera, they use their sexuality and charisma as means of manipulation.
Also, it's as the first reply I got said, more often will there be pranks that push the boundaries in Greek life
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Because teens make bad choices far more often than young adults. They also can be bullied into them far easier as well.
A college student age person is far more likely not to along with doing this sort of thing. At least they were when I was in high school and college mid to late 80s.
Same pieces, different chess board. As teens, this would have been ruled an accidental manslaughter with probably no punishment or legal prosecution.
If they were sisters in a sorority, it would have raised the stakes and make more sense plot wise, why Courtney and Marcie covered it up, got Fern to go along with it.
This is also something to show about Fern as a person. She was inside, probably just as spiteful as Courtney.
And since they would be college students, investigating a murder at a college/university would have not made Detective Cruz seem like an idiot in the second half of the movie.
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It could definitely work in a college setting but I think the high school age works just as well. How often do girls pull crazy pranks like this, even Julie's boyfriend raised his eyebrows at her when she told him. It would make sense in college as a hazing gone wrong but a the public may not believe it was a joke among girls I high school, the prosecutor might spin it into "mean girls gone too far"
shareWell since you asked, in my studies, there are even worse and way more dangerous pranks in sororities.
Hazing goes both ways. So if the movie was in college, Liz would likely be president of her sorority, so they're not immune to getting hazed either.
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