There while to get going and then slots into a is no real purpose to any of the clunky format in such a thrall to how uncountable homages rendered other AWESOME it is that it forgets that than that they are, or were once, you're supposed to root for characters. something teenagers got a kick out of. That's not to say the film is entirely If I was being bitchy I'd say that (the empty. Wright imbues his characters admittedly flawed) Whip It is a better with a charming sincerity and openness, movie purely because it's a teen movie with Scott and his friends willing to about escaping suburban boredom and embrace novelty and accept difference. clearly loved the subculture it portrayed They're smart, too. "Don't let the past
Grant goes into his mid-movie Ordeal feeling abandoned by her. T h e possibility of true love that she represented now seems dead, and it makes his Ordeal, in which he's almost gunned down by a crop-dusting plane in a cornfield, all the more lonely. N E G A T I V E A N I M U S O R ANTMA Sometimes in the journey of our lives we confront negative projections of the anima or animus. T h i s can be a person who attracts us but isn't good for us, or a bitchy or bastardly part of ourselves that suddenly asserts itself like M r . Hyde taking over from Dr. Jekyll. Such a confrontation can be a life-threatening Ordeal in a relationship or in a person's development. T h e hero of Fatal Attraction finds that a casual lover can turn into a lethal force if crossed or rejected. An ideal partner can turn into the Boston Strangler or a loving father can become a killer as in The Shining. 168
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