Posted by Badassfuckinetta at adsl-63-198-190-65.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on September 28, 2000 at 15:20:45:
In Reply to: Holy Shit posted by Pickle on September 28, 2000 at 15:07:36:
: I mean she was so in control of the Band Aids, Hammond, Miller, all of it until the overdose. That was the turn for me. That is when she became a groupie. Before that she was THE Band Aid. Being lost in the world of shirtless and beer was just out of character for Penny. Then again I didn't live it.
I think the line the one groupie said about them not willing to have sex with the band members but were willing to give them blow jobs made it abundantly clear from the get-go that there was a thin, blurred line between the ideals the girls set themselves up to be and who they actually were. Penny was sleeping with Russell the second time we meet her, as well. She contradicted what she wanted to be from the beginning, and it wasn't till the end when the heartache and loneliness added up that it was apparent to her that she really wasn't who she thought she was. Which is what the whole movie is about: living with your ideals. That overdose scene in which William smiles at his declaration of his love for Penny and his kiss while she gets her stomach pumped, intercut with William's mom attending his graduation, solely clapping for her son: the pending graduate. These characters were in situations that seemed out of this world compared to what they dreamed of being. The hope and brilliance of it was that they didn't deny the happiness or the saddness they found.