"little darlings" is on tv...oh how i love love love this movie! it is so my childhood... blondie "one way or another", feathered hair, bra-less in ringer tees. oh... the end of the free and easy seventies. oh, how i mourn thee...
the thing i notice most about this movie seeing it now through my adult eyes, is that even though the whole premise is based on femme-on-femme competition, there is so much less cattiness and bitchery among the girls than in the crap they produce now. the messages i got as a child were so much more empowering and let's just call it out FEMINIST. these girls are friends. they are developed and have interesting things to say, they grow and change over the summer...and they are all so different. a different "type", yeah, i know, but at least they are all not the same generic tart we see solely now.
my mother did not want me to see this movie because she felt it was too focused on getting boys and being cutesy etc. but that is not at all what it is about. it is about being girlfriends and holding onto our short lived girlhood.
and i mean, let's not ignore that it was the first time i saw matt dillon without his shirt on. that alone makes it a seriously noteworthy movie.
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