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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 402609" data-attributes="member: 23">Permanent (2017)

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I clicked into this one on a whim, scrolling past the image of the girl with the frizzy hair and a line of text about her trying to fit in at her new school by getting a perm.

One huge selling point was the Eighties period detail, which was spot on (apart from the Farrah Fawcett reference since I doubted she&#039;d have been on a teenage girl&#039;s radar as much by 1982. But it&#039;s easily explained away considering the person who wanted the Farrah Flick is not one of the cool girls). As well as the aesthetics, it captured some of the attitudes of the times with the bullying, the disinterested teachers and the only black girl in the class being &quot;othered&quot; and placed into a class for remedial students despite her clear intellect). The knockout moment was with the Nina Simone poetry scene, but it&#039;s a little odd that this wasn&#039;t even a main character.

I hoped for quirk, and I suppose I got it. A lot of it felt like quirk for quirk&#039;s sake, though. Like Willie&#039;s description of Sleepaway Camp, the &quot;camp&quot; felt intentional, and it&#039;s just not that easily manufactured. It didn&#039;t go as deep as I&#039;d have liked, nor was it laugh out loud funny. It wasn&#039;t even weird enough to astound. The tone&nbsp; felt curiously like The Kids From Degrassi Street or something. It&#039;s strangely engrossing, and I ended up being drawn in even as I wondered why. And I still couldn&#039;t tell you what the appeal was. 

Incidentally, while I know &quot;perm&quot; is a diminutive of &quot;permanent wave&quot;, I&#039;ve never before heard it called a &quot;permanent&quot;, which is the go-to name repeatedly used for it here. I wonder if this is a regional thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 402609, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Permanent[/SIZE][/B] (2017) [IMG width="784px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.signature-entertainment.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2FPERMANENT_AMAZON_1920x1080_V2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=186b97a70a2b684367035e81b494336d4af54dc34000179eeedd4eb0e67be08f&ipo=images[/IMG] I clicked into this one on a whim, scrolling past the image of the girl with the frizzy hair and a line of text about her trying to fit in at her new school by getting a perm. One huge selling point was the Eighties period detail, which was spot on (apart from the Farrah Fawcett reference since I doubted she'd have been on a teenage girl's radar as much by 1982. But it's easily explained away considering the person who wanted the Farrah Flick is not one of the cool girls). As well as the aesthetics, it captured some of the attitudes of the times with the bullying, the disinterested teachers and the only black girl in the class being "othered" and placed into a class for remedial students despite her clear intellect). The knockout moment was with the Nina Simone poetry scene, but it's a little odd that this wasn't even a main character. I hoped for quirk, and I suppose I got it. A lot of it felt like quirk for quirk's sake, though. Like Willie's description of [I]Sleepaway Camp[/I], the "camp" felt intentional, and it's just not that easily manufactured. It didn't go as deep as I'd have liked, nor was it laugh out loud funny. It wasn't even weird enough to astound. The tone felt curiously like [I]The Kids From Degrassi Street[/I] or something. It's strangely engrossing, and I ended up being drawn in even as I wondered why. And I [U][I]still[/I][/U] couldn't tell you what the appeal was. Incidentally, while I know "perm" is a diminutive of "permanent wave", I've never before heard it called a "permanent", which is the go-to name repeatedly used for it here. I wonder if this is a regional thing.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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