In the wake of #NeverAgain and a generation of politicised youth, the mean-scheming adolescents found in films feel out of dateRelated: Heathers trailer: TV remake flirts clumsily with identity politics“This is Amanda: she feels nothing.
This is Lily: she feels everything.” This is teenhood in a nutshell.
And this is the crawl from the trailer of Thoroughbreds, a delightfully nasty new movie in which two privileged Connecticut schoolgirls hatch a plot to kill Lily’s stepdad.
They are perfect partners in crime, although the crime, inevitably, does not go perfectly.
They are also perfect symbols for the two poles of teenhood and, by extension, teen movies: on the one hand, studied, borderline sociopathic numbness; on the other, an acute sensitivity that makes every experience, like, the most intense thing Ever.
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