The movie I chose for this essay was Geek Charming. There was many concepts about sociology throughout the whole film such as reference groups, rivalry between two different set of people and how one thinks other people see them.
Introduction
To start off, the beginning of this film starts with a teenage girl explaining the different type of “groupies” in the school. There is the popular, which she is one of them, the band people, the jocks and the geeks. Throughout the movie she lives her life as a rich popular girl in school. She is running for blossom queen, also known as prom queen. She is part of a triad who think that they are the best of the best and are high maintenance. Even though she is the most wanted girl in the school, she is not as much liked by a rival who is running against her and also her own boyfriend. The teenage girl, Dylan Schoenfield, unexpectedly meets a guy, Josh Rosen, who is considered a geek …show more content…
She devoted all her time to her boyfriend and did everything for him, even feeding him water during his game because he stated that that was her job as a girlfriend. There are certain things as a girlfriend should do for their significant other, like for example supporting them with their decisions or at a game, but I feel like that part in the movie were the sexist remark was made was totally unnecessary (they ended up breaking up towards the ending).
Conclusion
In conclusion, this film was made to represent that you do not have to pretend to be someone you’re not in order to be popular. I think as normal human beings we tend to think a lot about the looking-glass self-concept to an extent that is unhealthy, even when we don’t realize it. This film exercised the fact that there is consequences when one acts with such high maintenance and labeling others to a specific social group just because of what their interests