How mean Girls gives you life lessons?

Question

Im doing a school project..and mean girls is My favorite movie. The assignment is to say how movies teach me life lessons, without actually saying it. EX. in the movies cars, it tells you to dont always live on the fast lane-which means take time to enjoy life. I need ten examples. Someone who gives me a good 10 will get best answer, for sure!

Answer 1

There are so many life lessons in "Mean Girls" that I'll only list the few I think were most obvious:

>>Words Have Power - The power to hurt - feelings, the power to destroy - trust and reputations, the power to cleanse and the power to heal.

>>To restate a Shakespearean cliche - "To Thine Own Self, Be True" - Lindsay Lohan's character became something she was not for understandable but ultimately weak reasons.  Had she maintained her integrity - remained true to herself - she would have found her peer group which a lot less damage to herself and others.

>>Another "Golden Rule"-style cliche - "If you've nothing nice to say, then say nothing".  The "Mean Girls" willingness to be mean propels this film's characters into the train wreck that occurs - and makes it great drama.  Without that willingness to hemorrhage verbally, there's no real drama.  Had the characters exhibited more circumspect speech the movie would have been a documentary rather than a satiric comedy.

>>Last cliche "To err is human; to forgive, divine". Ultimately this movie isn't stark and sad because members of the different cliques begin to  forgive and to interact beyond the boundaries and grudges between the cliques.  Granted, some of it may seem unrealistic - like forgiveness from someone who almost died under a school bus' wheels.  But the breaking down of those walls at the movie's end gives hope to those living these situations that they can end and a better high school life awaits.  Courage to stand up and step straight is implicit in this better-then-expected ending.

Hope this helps!