‘Moxie’ movie review: Amy Poehler’s film is a fierce feminist rant
Based mostly on Jennifer Mathieu’s eponymous novel, the film on Netflix doesn’t go for broke, however has its coronary heart in the correct place
Vivian (Hadley Robinson) and her finest pal Claudia (Lauren Tsai) are again at Rockport Excessive in Oregon for the brand new time period. Every thing appears to be the identical — the obnoxious rankings, the place all the women in class are graded in accordance with their bodily attributes, are out and the extremely in style captain of the soccer crew Mitchell Wilson (Patrick Schwarzenegger) is being his casually-annoying self. Every thing is similar that’s till new lady Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) asks Vivian, “You realize that annoying might be extra than simply annoying proper?”
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Vivian’s mom, Lisa (Amy Poehler) is a feminist and tells her, “Once I was 16, all I cared about was smashing the patriarchy.” Whereas admitting to creating errors and never being “intersectional sufficient” Lisa assures Vivian that she didn’t remorse any of it. When Vivian finds her mom’s Riot grrrl zine, she decides to struggle the endemic sexism and bullying in her faculty with a zine of her personal, Moxie. And a motion is born. Anger (“I hate that we’re shoved apart”) is channelled to problem the established order to the rousing background rating of ‘Insurgent Woman’ by punk rock band Bikini Woman.
Moxie
- Director: Amy Poehler
- Forged: Hadley Robinson, Josephine Langford, Lauren Tsai, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Amy Poehler, Ike Barinholtz, Marcia Homosexual Harden, Nico Hiraga, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Sydney Park, Sabrina Haskett
- Story line: A candy coming-of-age story of a youngster who finds herself with a little bit assist from friends and her rad mom
- Run time: 111 minutes
So Kiera (Sydney Park), the captain of the women’ soccer crew runs towards Mitchell for a sports activities scholarship and all the women flip up in tank tops to help Kaitlynn (Sabrina Haskett), who’s instructed by Principal Shelly (Marcia Homosexual Harden) to not put on them. Moxie additionally encourages Emma (Josephine Langford) to disclose a darkish secret. Social media is put to good use to unfold the revolution.
The sympathetic males embrace the English instructor (all the time must be the English instructor, why not maths or geology?) Mr Davies (Ike Barinholtz) and Seth (Nico Hiraga), who moist his pants when he was a little bit boy, however has grown right into a hunk, a lot to Vivian’s delight.
Rockport Excessive could be very completely different faculty from Riverdale, Rydell or any of the colleges youngsters appear to frequent in Hollywood. Although Moxie primarily based on Jennifer Mathieu’s eponymous novel, doesn’t go for broke, it has its coronary heart in the correct place.
Moxie is at the moment streaming on Netflix
