This movie takes place in 2002 despite the incredibly 2022 setting. Nobody acts like 9/11 just happened. Not even the adults. Nobody is sad or paranoid. Nobody tackles or tazes the psycho mother during the scene where she gets onto school grounds without permission to give her 13 year old daughter her tampon pads.
The movie tries to make the mother look insane and unreasonable because she does not approve of child twerking or prostitution.
Then why set it in 2002? Why deliberately choose that year when you know you’re not going to honor the setting?
Lemme guess: one of the female writers is self-inserting and can’t fathom changing the year because that’s when she was the same age as the protagonist.
This movie takes place in 2002 despite the incredibly 2022 setting. Nobody acts like 9/11 just happened. Not even the adults. Nobody is sad or paranoid. Nobody tackles or tazes the psycho mother during the scene where she gets onto school grounds without permission to give her 13 year old daughter her tampon pads.
The movie tries to make the mother look insane and unreasonable because she does not approve of child twerking or prostitution.
It takes place I'm 2002, but they still want kids to relate to it to want to watch it. Compromises needed to be made.
Then why set it in 2002? Why deliberately choose that year when you know you’re not going to honor the setting?
Lemme guess: one of the female writers is self-inserting and can’t fathom changing the year because that’s when she was the same age as the protagonist.
It is based on the film director's experience. She is Asian from Canada.