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fandomsecrets2012-12-12 05:53 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-12-13 12:50 am (UTC)(link)It never says that some type of people are wholly bad and some type of people are wholly good.
In another movie, Janice might have been completely in the right, being portrayed as the entirely correct victim. But in Mean Girls, she does some nasty, mean things. She takes a socially clueless and fairly innocent girl and uses her and the pretense of their friendship (knowing full well she doesn't have any friends) to spy on her hated rival and try to ruin her in small and big ways. That's pretty vicious. You understand why she does it, and she's sympathetic, but she's not a saint.
Gretchen Wieners is shallow, rather stupid, and follows along with Regina's mean things, but she isn't exactly mean herself. She just desires attention and approval.
Regina is a bad person, but not irredeemably so. But when put in a position of power, she abuses it. She's young and spoiled but not evil. The protagonist does the same thing in her position and you see why. The attention and glory went to her head. Taken away from her, she becomes a much better person.
The movie does lionize or condemn any one person or group for their actions. In this way, it's less shallow than a lot of teen clique movies. Another movie with that sort of attitude is The Breakfast Club--none of the characters are wrong or bad, they simply have their own problems and it shows how they all chose to deal with it.
TL;DR: This movie is like the Breakfast Club without the tragic abusive backstories as the reasoning.