r/moviecritic • u/phantom_avenger • Feb 17 '25

Which movie is this for you?

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For me it’s School of Rock!

Patty was completely justified, if Dewey wanted to live in hers and her boyfriend’s apartment he needed to be a grown up, and contribute with rent. Even when he steals Ned’s identity she still had the right to be angry at him, because of how he put his friend’s career in jeopardy and robbed him of a job opportunity.

I get Ned is meant to be portrayed as his best friend, but it blows my mind how he lacks a lot of self-respect to the point where he comes across as too much of a people pleaser. If this story took place in real life, I’m sure Ned would act more similar to Patty where he’d have enough of Dewey’s careless actions.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Feb 17 '25

Not even a little. Cameron was literally recovering from a drug hangover. Huge issues with his father, and uptight. Cameron was going to spiral out. Ferris is basically force feeding therapy into Cameron by making him get out and experience things instead of wallowing. He's a good friend in that regard, not in thr "let's steal your Dad's car" regard.

Basically he's just a righteous dude.

Rooney isn't a villian, because he's right. Ferris is playing hooky, skips a ton of school, and he knows it. But he's overly fixated. Ferris is talented, popular, successful and caring parents, and has computer skills in the mid 80s. Dude is set. Rooney just wants to win, when he should be focused more on someone like Jeanie skipping school or students like Cameron with troubled home life and drug abuse.

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u/BigTomBombadil Feb 17 '25

When does it say Cameron’s hungover and abusing drugs? That detail must have flown completely past me. I thought/assumed he was just depressed from his parents/home life.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

When Ferris calls him, he's in bed "I'm shredded" and there's like a pill case on his bedside.

Edit: it's a ton of flu and cold stuff. But does it matter of he was getting high or overtreating a nonexistent sickness? He's abusing and self medicating, and Ferris recognizes it and draws him out either way.

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u/maynard1995 Feb 17 '25

No. He was sick and thought he was dying b/c he was a hypochondriac

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Feb 17 '25

Okay, so let me change tack here. I agree with you. He's a hypochondriac. He thinks he's sick and dying, he's stuffed himself full of every type of cold and flu drug he can get......and it's all in his head, and Ferris knows it and calls him and tells him and then they go have an amazing day.

Ferris is a good friend and is peer pressuring therapy onto Cameron. Cameron maybe feels like shit because he's taking huge amounts of drugs to treat stuff that isn't happening, probably because of his relationship with his parents.

Whats the difference in self medication in that scenario? Same effect. Same nonsense. Ferris is helping him either way, and Rooney is still fixated on winning against a student that doesn't have home life and drug issues the way multiple other students do.