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Title: A steaming, festering pile of offensive crap
Review: This movie is beautiful, and well-acted. However, the premise is pure crap, and the characters are ridiculous parodies. The really offensive thing is that it's basically an attack on an entire ethnic group -- white, anglo-saxon protestant women. If something like this was made about any minority group -- let's say, Jews -- there would be people with pitchforks marching on the offices of the studio. However, here, WASPs are portrayed as rigid, unfeeling, cruel, shallow, simpleminded and vaguely fascistic. Every single one of them, and at one of the top schools in the country. I doubt very much if Wellesley in the fifties was populated by women as dumb and awful as this, and the effort to portray them that way is more than a little offensive.
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