Clueless, written and directed by Amy Heckerling - Nine out of 10

Clueless, written and directed by Amy Heckerling

Nine out of 10

Clueless is a charming, amusing, fresh, creative, smart comedy that has been included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list - https://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made/list/5 - and it is indeed a definite pleasure to watch.

Alicia Silverstone is resplendent as Cher, the main character of the motion picture, not the celebrated singer-actress, a rich, spoiled, somewhat innocent girl, but also ignorant as in ‘ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit, touch it and the boom is gone’, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, and she provides quite a few interesting, mirthful scenes when she reveals she has no idea where one country or another is…perhaps Myanmar is mentioned and she places it in…the Middle East.

She does quite poorly in school, especially in the class of Mr. Wendell Hall aka the wonderful Wallace Shawn, admired in such great movies as My dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42^nd Street - http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/06/vanya-on-42nd-street-based-on-uncle.html - because the teenager is nice, friendly – though to begin with, not with Travis and others that she sees as beneath her – but also rather superficial, incurious as to geography, serious debate and perhaps or most likely most, if not all subjects.

She is very interested in shopping and the ,all appears to be the therapy temple, in one of the many amusing moments, she has just been through some adversity, when she passes in front of a shop with shoes or maybe some other fashion apparel and although she had just reached a nadir of some kind, she stops and the call of a shopping moment is irresistible – as in Confessions of a Shopaholic http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/09/confessions-of-shopaholic-based-on.html - and thus she is soothed when she walks out of the Temple with a rewarding, Xanax type of bag.

Cher is very kind – well, up to the point where for instance helping her friend get the boy she has just discovered she might be infatuated with might compromise her future romance – taking care of her morose, yet so comical lawyer father, who has to eat healthier food and has his daughter ready to nudge him, she also tries almost everything to help the new girl, Tai aka Brittany Murphy, have the romantic dreams come true, even pushing Elton literally and figuratively to date her, drive her home, to get close to her.

Then Josh aka very young, wonderful Paul Rudd, comes to the huge mansion, almost a palace, to stay with his father and an interesting dynamic develops between brother and sister, awkward for this viewer for a short while, because paying little attention, he first missed on the detail of the connection between the main personages, who have no biological parent in common, for though they share the same father, he is a step parent for the boy and thus the developing attraction has nothing perverse or incestuous about it…well, maybe it has, who knows what is in the mind of Clueless people.

Which brings me to the spoiler alert part, the portion of the note where nothing is revealed about what happens, that is anyway pretty clear, given that this is a romantic comedy and not a horror feature, but the undersigned would just venture off into the wild on the political, democracy message that the movie does not have, but some bizarre audience may still get…

Clueless…this seems to be what a large portion of America is in the present, the one that had elected a Senseless buffoon – perhaps we should put that in all caps, as he does so often in his idiotic tweets – and seems very close to put him for four more years in the highest office, as if they had seen nothing of the lawless, immoral, erratic, criminal, vicious, disgusting manifestations of a man with Clear mental problems, who has just fired Colonel Vidman – a decorated man, who fought in war, unlike the coward with bone spurs and vindictive, stupid personality – and his buddy, Sondland…

This may well represent the Decay, Downfall of America, for they are not interested in the truth anymore – again, this is for the Trump supporters, who may have the upper hand in November – they worship a cretin, a fool who should be in care – perhaps intensive care – for his Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Schizophrenia, Paranoia, Dementia and the other disturbing ailments he clearly manifests on a daily basis…

Instead of prison, they push him into the Oval Office…

Clueless and over sixty million…