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After watching the clips from Mean Girls and the related video presented in class, along with the article "High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies" by David Denby, p. 366, I believe that genre films reflect reality. All the scenes in genre films took place in high school, where presented many types of people such as the jocks sport, the nerd, the gangsters, the mean girls, the pretty girls, the prom queens, the ugly girls, the rich kids, and the slackers. Because of the presence of these people, it made the genre films more reality. Even though, I am not a teen in high school right now, I still remembered the time when I was in high school. I think that is the most interesting time for people at teen age. Indeed, these adolescents are
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