I remember when I first saw the movie, Jennifer’s Body, the first impression I got from it after the credits rolled, was about a girl who came back and got revenge, killing boys. Basically “girl empowerment”, and the advertisem*nts for the movie didn’t help, it basically gave the impression that it was eye candy for boys and men, with sexual tones. Sure I’ve rewatched it a few times, but I finally rewatched it a month ago, after a decade later, and now my feelings on it have completely changed but for the better.
Now when I think of the movie, it’s not just about a girl getting revenge, it’s deeper then that, it’s a story about two girls, who were best friends, over time start drifting apart from each other. By the time the movie starts, it shows, Needy starting to drift away from Jennifer, and getting closer to her boyfriend, all while showing Jennifer unhappy with Needy drifting apart from her, and tries throughout the movie to reconnect with her. Asking Needy to go with her to the bar to see the band that it’s town, then later on, tries to reconnect with Needy by kissing her like they used to do, trying to rekindle their friendship.
Not only does it show the two girls drifting apart from each other, it also shows them as victims as well. With Jennifer, it shows her being a victim right from the very beginning, with boys and men using and abusing her, to where the only friend and person she could trust was Needy. So from Jennifer’s perspective, it makes sense as to why she didn’t want to lose Needy as a friend.
As for Needy, she didn’t become a victim till the end of the film, when she lost both, her boyfriend and her best friend Jennifer. Jennifer and Needy where both victims of life, just in different ways. I don’t think people realize how deep the movie actually is, till they rewatch it a few good times, and think deep about the movie as a whole. It’s an excellent film, one that I think is as important now, as it was when it first came out.
It’s more than a horror movie, mixed with comedy or sexual undertones, it’s about two friends that ended up drifting apart, and also being victims of life itself.
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