Teenage Invasion

Another 16-year-old, another catchy tunes.

Watch your back, Lorde.

All for One and One for All

So, I stumbled upon BuzzFeed (as always) last night & my attention was drawn to this article I could not help but read. 

Anyways, this movie starts with the reuniting group of four girls (Samantha, Roberta, Teeny, and Chrissy) in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana, in 1995 (the 'now' part, as they were already grown-ups at that moment). And then there goes the flashback to the summer of 1970, when the four girls were 12. With all its bicycling, Red Rover game, tarot reading, library hopping, and seances, this is a good movie to tell what it was like being adolescents and how to spend summer before the years of video game and internet invasion.

I almost forgot how much I was obsessed with this movie when I was 8. (Yes, I watched it the first time when I was 8, which was around 4 years late since the movie came out in 1995) I'd watched it, like, 2 or 3 years ago on YouTube that I should jump from one part to another & the buffering lost my concentration so it kinda didn't do for me at the time. I thought my obsession was over, until I watched it again for the first time in years. The full part of the movie.

It turned out that some scenes still get me. Like, the scene when Sam almost drowned that night in the storm drain right after Teeny gave her a friendship bracelet, and Teeny couldn't do anything but crying, and then Crazy Pete came out of nowhere to save her. Or when Sam finally found out that Crazy Pete was Dear Johnny's father and being told a lesson that would've taken him a lifetime to learn. (I admit I'm a sucker for lonely old men) Or that time when Roberta got into a fight with some scumbag at the softball field and Sam did a heroic action. (That little guy screaming 'FIIIIIIGHT' was the highlight, though) Or the scene when they stole away the Wormers' clothes and left them chasing around naked. Or when Roberta was hysterically angry at Sam's grandma's attic finding out that some people might have died in pain, and the girls finally learned that the town they lived in was not as safe as they thought it always was. Or Teeny's room. Or the seances. Or Chrissy's OCD mother. (Seriously, a little dust on the gramophone and facing-upward cap is not okay?) Well, pretty much every single scene still gets me.

It's such a heartbreaker though finding out some of the girls' casts didn't grow up as expected. The girl who played pre-teen Chrissy, Ashleigh Aston Moore, even already passed away in 2007 with unconfirmed cause of death. (Some said pneumonia, some said heroin overdose) Well, after all, this is truly a movie a girl (or woman), regardless of her age, if you have bestfriends, should watch. Just like the tagline: "In every woman, there is the girl she left behind".

"C: I say  we make a pact. Here and now. We're here for each other, always, 
no matter what happens in life. If Teeny goes off to Hollywood or I marry a rich doctor,
 we remember this day and this pact. Whenever we need a friend, we're here for each other. 
We can count on it. Always. No matter what.

S: It's a pact.

C: All for one...

C, S, T, R: And one for all."