Fast Times at Ridgemont High

This movie is loved and honored for all the wrong reasons. To start with Cameron Crow wrote the screenplay based on a piece of investigative journalism he did for rolling stone a few years early and published as a book. Well the plot elements of the plot are in here that are going to be discussed and I'am not talking about the drug use that is wildly discussed.  Now the reason is it is held in such high place among the  people is the use of 80's music and nostalgia feel that seems to have started around 1999-2003 and still has a grip on our society.    

The big thing that is messed up about this film is Stacy Hamilton and her best friend Linda that lies about having sex and is pushing Stacy to do it for real living vigorously through her. her friend also claims that she lost it at 13 and that she needs to grow up and this leads her to having sex with a 26 year old man that thinks she is 19 in a very forced scene that she is only doing it to impress her best-friend. Also just to make sure I put this in her she is only 15 which is why I find this so disturbing. Now a little bit later Stacy uses sex as a weapon to make people like her. Now this would normally in any other movie lead to her learning a lesson about love by some guy not wanting to bang her silly. Well in this movie it leads to pregnancy and finish that up with a of a one two jab of abortion and her older brother being pretty much cool with her doing it. 

Also her big brother is obsessed with his kid sisters best friend as well. Who keeps saying she has a  boyfriend in another town that truly does not seem if he exists at all. This leads to the infamous masturbation scene where in walks Linda on her best-friends brother. Who's life is spiraling out of  control due to standing up to a customer and losing his shit over and over again as the movie goes on.

Now my issue is yeah this is all normal teenage bullshit but people tend to forget that it's based on dear I say it once again a undercover investigative journalist piece by the screenplay writer.

My point of this short article is simple this sometimes a movie reaches cult classic mainly as a comedy due to people not truly researching or understanding what they are watching. I also love this movie and the reason is it captures the awkwardness of being a young person is a society ruled by sex and partying given that this is what we have been told to enjoy.