22 Shocking Truths and Myths About High School Movies Revealed by Americans
But have you ever wondered how much exactly this cliche picture of American sophomore year is true? What if in reality, Mean Girls, Juno, and Superbad were nothing more than Hollywood fiction that masterfully manipulated our sense of nostalgia?
In order to find the answers, it’s best to ask people who have been there and done that. So when someone asked Americans “How true are ‘American high school movies’ compared to real-life high school?” people immediately took the opportunity to share their experiences.
I remember one time in school, I was walking down the hall with my books in my arms. A random bully ran down the hall and slapped them down, hard, sending all my stuff flying everywhere.
In a movie, everyone would point and laugh. In movies, that sort of obvious bullying of a nerd would be treated as funny and normal.
In reality, the other kids gasped, and a few random kids stopped and helped me gather up my things. I remember one girl saying, “That was so mean.”
Not all popular people are mean, I was friends with a popular girl in my sophomore year and she was super kind/sweet to everybdoy
A weird thing is how they seemingly show it as if kids just have time to talk and chat in the middle of the day in the hallway by their lockers when in reality you’re booking it across the building because you have 5 minutes to go from the first floor, get to your locker on the second floor, and then run all the way across the 3rd floor to your 3rd period class.
Also dunno about y’all but I got only 25 minutes for lunch in HS, so nobody was milling about during lunch either in the halls.
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