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Ten Movies About Toxic Friendships
Hopefully, most people out in the world don’t have to deal with horrible people that get under your skin or just plain awful people as friends. When most people think about what is it like to have friends they think of supportive, nice people who listen and respect who you are. Most people don’t want someone needy, rude, cruel or hear today gone tomorrow type of people around.
Movies have this type of terrible people on screen all the time. Here are some movies that have toxic friendships.
kolosální (2016)
A woman who is hitting a low in her life. She on break from her job and her boyfriend just left her. She’s an alcoholic who just broke up with her boyfriend and living in her parents emptied house while gaining some cash from her demanding, meanspirited, rude frenemy. The internal fighting of egos takes place in Seoul, South Korea by a giant lizard monster and a mega robot has she figures out that she can control the monster’s movements.
Heathers (1988)
The popular girls from a small Ohio town are cruel, rude and too hung up into their lives. Their “number two” friend plots with her boyfriend to murder the leader to rid the bad terrible force from her life only to find her life becoming more complicated. This is a classic and like most classic, you won’t be seeing them on the big screen like that again.
Nebeská stvoření (1994)
It’s inspired by a true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker. Two teenagers become very emotionally connected in 1950’s Christchurch, New Zealand. They have a lot of fantasies that disconnect themselves to reality and only be together obsessively . They conspire a plot to murder Pauline’s mother and run off and be together in America after a threat of their friendship to end. It’s a toxic relationship.
Mean Girls (2004)
The updated mean girl’s troupe from Disney. It takes a friendlier approach to teenage bitchiness from Heathers and makes the protagonist nicer and relatable. The humour about the high school clique and the “popular” girls is there with more quotable lines. The film has a more uniformed story to toxic personalities getting the point to stop.
Velmi špatné věci (1998)
After a stripper and a security guard accidentally dies at a Las Vegas bachelor party, five friends decide to bury the body and act like nothing is wrong. Everything comes crashing to a haul when all of their friendships with each other abruptly end from stress about the wedding, anxiety and guilty consciences. Warning: This film gets tmavý. Voted one of the worst films of the year by Siskel and Ebert.
Řemeslo (1996)
Four teenagers practicing witchcraft get more than they bargained for with clashing personalities. The “leader” of the group is an angry misfit that is quick to jealously. The two followers don’t really question the tactics that their bossy friend does but follow blindly and becoming the worst versions of themselves.
Strach (1996)
There is a boyfriend to focus on when thinking about a toxic relationship because the guy is psychotic. But the best friend whose into older guys while still being in high school, slept with her best friend’s boyfriend, loud and vulgar person is the catalyst that helps her naive friend met the older guy that placed her and everyone she knows in danger. Especially when she knew about her best friend’s boyfriend mental condition.
Smrt se jí stává (1992)
A bitter frenemy rivalry stays strong until the bitter end. This is the quintessential movie of a toxic friendship on screen. They bicker, fight, have petty quarrels with each other and bitter competitions that truly only hurt them at the end of trying to be the “better” person. An ex-actress, a novelist and a failed plastic surgeon plot to kill one and other. Forever fighting for the ultimate upper hand. This is a comedy and somewhat an Avante Garde zombie film filled with great memorable comedic scenes and special effects.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
This is the toxic friendship that is bound by bitter sibling rivalry. The codependent relationship is about a once child star that can’t let go of the pass while her once very successful actress sister whose now a paraplegic lives with her in her Old Hollywood home filled with a lot of rooms and stairs. The bitterness, hate and anger is on full display when Jane reaches her breaking point. This film won two Oscars for best actress in a leading role and best costume design.
This is the End (2013)
Most friends can’t last after a major event like a wedding let alone the apocalypse. A group of friends with a very weak bond with each other go through the rapture at a large party. Their friends are placed to the test being confined to a small place and demonic occurrences happening.
20 Movies That Understand The Complexities of Female Friendship
We all know those films that instantly remind you of your best friends, past and present, they’re called buddy films. Our best friends are there to support us, console us, make us laugh, defend us, and more, but they can also be the source of our pain and heartbreak. Friendships between females, both young and old, possess a certain intensity that isn’t matched in other dynamics.
This list is a collection of twenty films that portray female friendship and relationships on screen. Every film varies in terms of genre, year of release, narrative, and the age group of the characters. Ranging from childhood, high school, and adulthood, these female friendship films nail the complexity of being a woman in a significant friendship and the lessons learned through life spent with the best companionship.
1. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
Written by Noah Baumbach and the star of the film, Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha tells the story of two friends who met in college and instantly became the best duo. They live together, love each other, and depend on each other’s company like life partners often do. But when significant others get in the way and the reality of growing up conflicts with their friendship, they begin to breakdown in their own ways.
But in the break, they discover themselves and most importantly they grow together while being separate to realize that they are meant to be best friends forever, and life will never be the same without each other. Paired with an exciting soundtrack, the film feels romantic at times, but ultimately remains a buddy film that is funny, heartwarming, realistic, intelligent, and just really, really good.
The soundtrack, the cinematography, the dialogue, it’s perfect. Frances Ha captures an aesthetic and quality in media that can often be lost in the mess of television, politics, etc. The twenty-something, struggling post-grad in a large city aesthetic has been seen over and over again with shows like Girls, Broad City, and more, but Frances Ha doesn’t deliver a manufactured relationship to that aesthetic. It feels natural, and it feels relevant, and does it all so elegantly.
One of the most relevant, beautiful lines of dialogue I have ever heard from a film comes from this movie and it perfectly explains being in your 20s and trying to figure your life out, but it’s not that bad when you have your “person.”
“It’s that thing when you’re with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it… but it’s a party… and you’re both talking to other people, and you’re laughing and shining… and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes… but – but not because you’re possessive, or it’s precisely sexual… but because… that is your person in this life.
And it’s funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it’s this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s – That’s what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.”
2. Nebeská stvoření (1994, Peter Jackson)
The tale of two teenage friends and their imaginative lives blurred with the real world they live in, creates the cinematic experience that is one to discuss over drinks, or hard drugs. Pauline and Juliet bond over shared experiences of being sick children and parents who misunderstand them, but when their friendship reaches its all time high and the obsession becomes too real, the movie takes a fantastic, dark turn.
Weaving in and out of reality and fantasy, the film navigates through the early attachments that form in a new friendship, just intensified in this example. It’s important to follow the exaggerated example Peter Jackson lays out of obsession and latching onto a new friend, because as extreme as it is, it encapsulates the dynamic that is formed out of wanting to be around someone all the time.
Codependent, collaborative, and complex, the friendship between Pauline and Juliet brings light to the special bond that forms between friends, but the dangerous nature of forming a toxic friendship quickly.
It is the onscreen debut for both Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey and their performances are brilliant. The blur of reality and fantasy are fluid and rough all at once, the dialogue is witty and ridiculous, and the stylistic choice director Peter Jackson makes stabilizes this film into its position as a campy, cult film.
Another fun fact about this film is that it is based strongly off of the true story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme who acted out their disillusioned plans to murder anyone who stood in the way of their happiness and love for one another. Highlighting obsessive behaviors, loneliness, codependency, and the extremes of friendships, Heavenly Creatures is definitely worth watching and using for self-reflection.
3. Girl, Interrupted (1999, James Mangold)
This film is very special and dynamic in its approach to depicting female friendship on screen. One of the unique structures in setting and narrative, Girl, Interrupted takes place inside the walls of a mental institution. It delivers strong performances from each of the actresses in the main roles, which help mold the various relationships that occur between women.
Although the women are patients in a mental hospital, the relationships between each of them parallel and mirror any high school. There is an intense sense of trust or lack of, manipulation of character and feelings, fear, insecurity, and other examples of feelings women experience in relation to one another.
The characters include Susanna, the protagonist and navigator through the narrative, Lisa who is a diagnosed sociopath and self-proclaimed leader of the girls, Daisy who suffers from an eating disorder and is fearful of the world outside, Georgina who is Susanna’s roommate and a pathological liar, Polly who appears to take on the mentality of a child and suffers from severe burn scars after self-igniting, Janet who suffers from anorexia and is a former ballerina, and Cynthia who is mentally challenged and identified as a lesbian. Drastically different in most aspects, the women still share something that can only be held between them; they are all in the hospital and they are all “sick.”
The friendships develop quite quickly and create a codependence between the women, especially between Susanna and Lisa. In a moment when Lisa is removed from the hospital and doesn’t return, Susanna appears to be depressed, suggesting that she does need Lisa around regardless of her behavior and lack of empathy.
After multiple incidents of Lisa’s manipulation and cruelty towards the other women, Susanna proceeds to stand up to her, which leads to her ultimately cracking her tough, guarded persona. The dynamics between each of the characters can appear bizarre and oddly intense, but it must be understood that they are not well and their perception of love and affection may be skewed.
However, there are very raw and passionate examples of friendship throughout the film’s duration, and the film ends on a solid note to capturing and understanding the relations between women.
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2008, Cristian Mungiu)
Female friendship on screen or in real life can encounter challenges within the structure of the friendship that friendships between men may never see. In this film, two friends run into a complex situation that puts their friendship to the test. Otilia and Gabriela are friends who attend university together in 1987 Communist Romania. When Gabriela reveals that she is pregnant and wants to have an abortion, the two devise a plan to arrange an illegal abortion.
When they hire a man by the name of Mr. Bebe to perform the procedure, they work together to set up the hotel and get the money necessary. Otilia reaches out to her boyfriend to borrow money for Gabriela and returns to find out the hotel was not properly booked. Finding another option, the two prepare for Mr. Bebe. Irate that the original plan is not active, Mr. Bebe threatens to leave which leads to the two women engaging in compromising acts with him.
Tests to the friendship keep arising through revelations of information that Gabriela withheld from Otilia, negligence of other relationships in their lives, the tension that comes from the risk of the action, and the intensity of how much they rely on each other. Lies, anger, fear, etc. are all factors that could end any relationship, whether that is a friend or not, but it is in the trials endured that Otilia and Gabriela develop a stronger bond that seemingly will not be broken as the film concludes.
5. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997, David Mirkin)
One of the most organic and pure examples of female friendship on screen can be seen in this film. The story of two best friends who were considered misfits in high school and preserve their friendship through adulthood as they live together in California. The two support each other in multiple aspects from emotional, financial, etc. and are dependent on their companionship. Romy, is the more levelheaded of the two with a job and ambition to do more and be better.
Michele, on the other hand, is unemployed, aspiring to be a fashion designer, extremely naïve, loyal, and free-spirited, but together they fit. One day when Romy hears about her high school’s ten year reunion, she rushes home to convince Michele that they should attend and reinvent themselves to prove to their tormenters that they made it. Reluctant at first, Michele agrees and the two fabricate the last decade of their lives.
The desire to prove themselves and find some significance in their lives through this fake persona ends up compromising the one thing that meant everything to both of them: friendship. A major fight between them creates an uncomfortable tension and anxiety within the scenes where they exist without one another and try to carry on not acknowledging that they are both visibly hurt by the disagreement.
Once they resolve the problem and agree that everything they have together was enough, they are able to enjoy the reunion and truly cherish the brilliance and beauty of their friendship.
6. Thelma and Louise (1991, Ridley Scott)
Notably one of the most influential films in cinema and arguably one of the best road films, it also holds a pretty high spot on the list of great female friendship films. As one of the best representations of strong women and the concept of the dynamic duo, Thelma and Louise illustrate the story of two friends who set out to find freedom and solace from their mundane lives.
Louise takes on the role as the caretaker and the voice of reason, where Thelma is a little more naïve and susceptible to being treated poorly. After they set out on their journey, the two run into a dangerous and traumatizing situation that propels the film into a fast pace excursion and refuge.
The friendship that Thelma and Louise have established works off of two key ingredients: loyalty and love. Regardless of what one might do to neglect their trip or their safety, no matter how angry they may become at one another, or the future they have created for themselves after multiple decisions, they remain by each other’s sides and fight for love, rather than turn their back on it.
Their friendship is complex and tense and a reflection of their relationships with the various male characters in the film that fit a cookie-cutter mold. In a world where men are men and women are women but in the rule-abiding, male accompaniment, the two find their inner strength and beauty through the reflection in each other’s eyes. In a “if we go down, we go down together” fashion, Thelma and Louise encapsulate the beautiful, unstated contract forever friends write together.
10 family movies that teach the value of friendship
What would we do without friends? It is worth watching these films with your little ones and to reflect on this important value.
Publicado el 19 agosto, 2021 6:08 pm
“You´ve got a friend in me, You´ve got a friend in me, When the road looks rough ahead, And you´re miles and miles from your nice warm bed, You just remember what your old pal said, Boy, you´ve got a friend in me, Yeah, you´ve got a friend in me”, lyrics from You’ve got a Friend in Me, in the Disney movie Toy Story.
Having friends is the best thing in the world. We rely on them to get rid of sadness, increase joy, and reduce anguish, talk, share feelings, likes, hobbies, beliefs and projects. Undoubtfully, a great value that we must teach our children.
Movies that teach us the value of friendship
One way our children can learn the meaning of friendship is through movies. “Cinema is culture, art, entertainment, but also a reflective tool that can guide behavior. There are children’s films that deal with big issues and that allow us to transmit values”, says film critic Ligia Oliver.
According to the expert, these are 10 movies that teach our children the value of friendship. This weekend, plan to watch some of them.
1. Jako hvězdy na Zemi (Taare Zameen Par), by Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte
Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi (Darsheel Safary) is an eight-year-old boy who has dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. A group of kids pick on him, his mom gets frustrated trying to educate him, and his dad hopes all of his kids be successful. A new art teacher helps him discover that he has an extraordinary ability to paint.
Teaching: The world of children is full of wonders that it seems that adults do not appreciate them. Beyond grades and homework, there is friendship. This film was India’s official selection for the 2007 Academy Awards.
2. Home Still: There’s No Place Like Home, by Tim Johnson
An alien race (The Boov) conquers Earth and the entire population is relocated except for Tip, a girl who manages to hide from the aliens. Tip finds a runaway Boov named Oh who isn’t like the others, he just wants to have friends.
Teaching: This is a film full of feelings and love. It reminds us that family is not only about blood ties, but that there are other people who unexpectedly cross paths in your life and you create strong bonds.
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3. E.T., by Steven Spielberg
An alien child is left behind on Earth when the ship he came in departs without him. He is completely alone and afraid, but he befriends a human boy who hides him in his house and, together with his little sister, looks for a way to return him to his planet.
Výuka: This film revolves around friendship and child kindness. E.T. is a very cute character who just wants to go back home. Elliot will do everything in his power to help him, before the police and unscrupulous scientists want to experiment on him.
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4. Le renard et l’enfant, by Luc Jacquet
It tells the peculiar story of a girl who meets a fox while she was riding her bicycle through the woods; they begin a friendly relationship.
Teaching: Who says that friendship can only be among humans? This film combines the realism of a documentary with the magic of a children’s story. With her furry friend, she lives unforgettable adventures and shows that friendship can also be forged with animals.
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5. Čaroděj ze země Oz, by Victor Fleming
Dorothy, a little girl who dreams of traveling beyond the rainbow, gets her wish when a tornado takes her and her puppy to the world of Oz. There, she heads down the Yellow Road to the Emerald City, where the powerful Wizard of Oz might help her return to Kansas. During the journey, she befriends the Scarecrow who wants a brain, the Tin Man who wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion who wants to be brave, so they decide to join the odyssey.
Teaching: This American movie classic celebrates kindness, charity, friendship, bravery, strength, love, and generosity. When Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) sings “Over the Rainbow” she sends a message to the world, Trouble melts like lemon drops”.
6. Luca, by Enrico Casarosa
Luca is a sea monster who lives under a town on the Italian coast. When he comes to the surface, he takes on a human appearance, and meets a new friend, just like him. Together they go on an adventure among humans who hate monsters.
Teaching: According to Enrico Casarosa, the film is “as if he had put together all his childhood summers in a single film”, when he climbed the lighthouse, jumped from the rocks and laughed out loud with his dear friend . This is a story that talks about growing up and fulfilling dreams.
7. Toy Story, by John Lasseter
Woody, Andy’s favorite toy, feels threatened by the unexpected arrival of Buzz Lightyear, the Guardian of Space.
Teaching: The magic in this story makes this film a children’s classic. It all begins with Woody’s rivalry with Buzz but, wrapped up in their adventures, the two toys form powerful bonds of friendship. Toy Story also explores the great emotional bond that children generate with their toys.
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8. Harry Potter a kámen mudrců, by Chris Columbus
On his birthday, Harry Potter discovers that he is the son of two well-known wizards, from whom he has inherited magical powers. He must attend a famous school of magic and sorcery, where he makes friends with two teens who will become his companions in adventure. During his first year at Hogwarts, he discovers that a malevolent and powerful wizard named Voldemort is searching for a philosopher’s stone that lengthens the life of its owner.
Teaching: The entire saga written by JK Rowling teaches us powerful values, from respect for animals, the value of friends and family, to the power of our actions and words. What would Harry do without his inseparable friends, Ron and Hermione? In good and bad times, the three remain united. He who has a friend has a treasure, Harry is told at the end of the tape.
9. Jak vycvičit draka, by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
Hiccup, a teenage Viking, begins dragon training classes and finally sees an opportunity to prove that he is capable of becoming a warrior when he befriends an injured dragon.
Teaching: This saga shows us, above all, the value of true friendship, which is forged between Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless. It is a very complete film because in addition to the value of friendship it explains empathy, tolerance, identity, ideals, and conflict resolution.
10. Liška a honič, by Ted Berman, Richard Rich and Art Stevens
The young fox Tod and the hunting puppy Tody have become the best friends in the world, in a place where they only have each other to play and have fun. But the day comes when Toby leaves to train as a hunting dog, and when he finally returns from his long trip, things change radically for the two friends.
Teaching: A story that shows how society determines our behavior, but in the end, friendship manages to overcome any prejudice.
Přeložil: Ligia M. Oliver Manrique de Lara
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