Moxie
2021-03-07 21:19:40.485578+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Yesterday, a friend asked if I'd elaborate about the problems of high school, pep rallies, the promotion of sports, and willful blindness to abusive patterns of high school administrators and teachers.
Last night I asked Google for "best comedies on netflix", and after dismissing the ones with an 18% on Rotten Tomatoes ("Game Over, Man!"), we settled on the Amy Poehler directed "Moxie", a film about high school, and exactly those things.
Neither of us experienced it as a comedy. Both of us were glad to have seen it.
Both of us also came out of it shaken, like we'd just relived those experiences of three and a half or four decades ago. All the same willful blindness from administrators. Heck, I even had the cool engaging English teacher although, alas, I didn't get him until the last semester of my Senior year.
But, yeah. Kinda summed it up.