Lick the Star

I taught middle school for 43 years and watched as groups of girls developed these cliques. It generally was created by a single girl whose family had money and a boatload of permissiveness. There were the usual toadies, the hangers on, who followed these girls around. They were give their power by the others in the school. This captured a bit of it.

This film reminds all of us over 20 what a pretentious and callous world revolves around the average junior high school student. In this case, an attractive and popular female teen exhorts a group of her peers to embark on a mission to poison certain boys in her class. After an initial period of bonding, the group forms a club of secrecy which revolves around a tattoo with a very special meaning, and with a sufficient dose of prodding from the leader, they set out to accomplish the mission. However, they soon find that there is no such thing as a secret amongst students in a junior high school. Filmed in black and white this movie is well directed and never lacks for maintaining ones interest.

On my opinion this short film is very representative of it's time and depicts clearly a state of mind in which the characters are. Acting and photography may look nahive o little elaborated but i think it's very well blended in this particular style of filmmaking.

Sofia Coppola has a very unique style which is proved by her following, "The virgin's Suicides". Seems to me that it's almost a documentary, always an up close view of whats going on. It's not only the story, but how is told, and Coppola has a great personal, intimate style that i feel as being a truly femenine capacity, to tell stories not only with action but by declaring mood stages, contextual plots and settings to make the story much more credible.

I really enjoyed this short piece, i saw it before the "virgin's..." so I strongly recommend to watch this film to see a less "pinky-tender" side of Coppola.

i never saw this film until after i saw sophia coppola's new film "Thirteen". They are very similar. They're both interesting, modern accounts of teenage girls. Moving to a degree and i think for the most part very well acted considering these are very young actresses and actors playing very emotionally unstable characters.

Cruelty seems an innate skill in this story of junior high school girls. The cliques and the cruel plots and schemes that girls (and boys) can be prone to in that period between when they first start coming into their power as individuals and have yet to develop the emotional maturity that enables the responsibility that comes with power.