Brittany Garcia
Title: Virgin High
Director: Richard Gabai
Year: 1991
Let me just start by saying this movie was terrible. I think I enjoyed prying and poking at all the things that went bad in this movie versus the movie itself. The movie was about a high school girl who gets in trouble with her parents and gets sent away to a catholic boarding school. A boy she had been dating can’t stand that she is away and he and his buddies attempt to get in the school to see her. I don’t even know where to begin. The actors and actresses with the exception of a few were terrible. They tended to look into the camera a bit when speaking and some of the emotions they expressed were just awful. For example, in one scene, one of the girls is suppose to be crying. She sounded so fake and surreal it was crazy. It took away from the meaning of the moment. Besides the acting, the camera people didn’t do such a hot job either.
Throughout the movie, I counted three different times where in the headroom of a few particular shots, you could see the microphone above the actors/actresses. To me, this is very poor camera work. With the camera as well, there was one part toward the end of the movie where the camera was not utilized properly when they are at the end of the year dance. There was an attempted explosion with whip cream, which ended up being an epic fail. What was an attempt or should have been a combination shot, I feel was simply a jump cut. Where it should have transitioned from one action to the next, it jumped and we missed the entire in between. I will give them credit though with some of the reaction shots that were used.
Overall, this movie was so off the wall and pretty random. Even from the very beginning certain parts were just weird. For example, one of the main characters Jerry was extremely obsessed with “his” girl. He tries to feel under her shirt when she was sleeping and then he breaks in her boarding school without any notice and sneaks in her room all the while she didn’t seem very interested. To me, the story itself, for example, the plot of this movie could have been so much better had it been acted out differently.
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