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Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema.

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This week we are looking at Mean Girls, the 2004 smash

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hit written by onetime Vice Presidential nominee, Sarah Palin.

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hit written by onetime Vice Presidential nominee[br]Sarah Palin.

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A true departure from Palin's other work,[br]the film documents the sociopolitical climate

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of the American "high school," one of the[br]most terrifying and dangerous places on Earth.

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Our protagonist is Cady Heron, a teen-aged[br]human female who was raised on the continent

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of Africa. Africa was inhabited primarily[br]by animals, so when Cady's family moves to

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the American province of Illinois, she must[br]interact with other humans for the first time.

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Cady quickly discovers that her posh life[br]in the plains of Africa could never prepare

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her for the brutal savagery of the American[br]public school system.

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We are introduced to their social order in a highly anthropological manner

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...much in the same way Cady's zoologist parents would classify the five animal species of Africa:

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horses, tall horses, dogs, birds,

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and...

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These subdivisions form the basis of the American[br]"high school" experience: segregation, ostracization,

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and humiliation, not necessarily in that order.[br]Though there are adult humans present, they

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are largely decorative. The school is controlled[br]by a student named Regina George.

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Her first name, Regina, comes from the word[br]regis...which means "king" in Latin, the primary

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language of Earth. And her last name, George,[br]is a reference to either the British ruler

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from whom America took its independence...or[br]the clown prince of New York.

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Either way, royalty.

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Regina rules with an iron fist, implementing[br]a strict dress code

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and striking fear in the hearts of anyone who would dare cross her, and most who wouldn't.

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As part of her royal duties, Regina uses an official ledger to keep track of all the females in her class.

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It becomes a sort of bible, which is appropriate,[br]since, like Earth's Christian bible, it's

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just a list of people's names and some rumors[br]about them.

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The religion of "high school" is a complicated[br]one with constantly shifting mores and attitudes,

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but it basically boils down to this: math[br]is gross, and clothes are everything.

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The "American Dream" is to walk confidently down hallways.

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Also important is their preoccupation with[br]locking mouths, a pagan ritual meant to indicate

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approval.

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But despite the peaceful coexistence of many[br]disparate groups, there is tension in the ranks.

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Regina is a dictator continuing in[br]the footsteps of such noted tyrants as Adolf

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Hitler, Jimmy Carter, and Julius Caesar.

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And like them, she would eventually be overthrown.[br]Indeed, as the total annihilation of the human

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species would later prove, all great dynasties[br]must eventually fall. As is typically the

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case, this revolution is spurred by the proletariat.

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Together, the outcasts stage a coup to oust[br]their leader using undercover espionage, military

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strategy, and biological warfare.

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At the end of the film, Regina's throne has[br]been usurped and Cady is coronated. However,

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she rejects the crown, dismantling the monarchy[br]in favor of a new, more egalitarian system:

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Communism.

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