{"id":797,"date":"2019-10-15T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2019-2020\/?p=797"},"modified":"2019-10-15T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:12:44","slug":"tall-girls-tall-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2019-2020\/tall-girls-tall-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall Girl’s Tall Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maddie Kysilko<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow\u2019s the weather up there?\u201d is a line repeated constantly in the new Netflix Original movie Tall Girl<\/em>, which has recently taken the internet by storm. The movie\u2019s release on September 13th, as well as its intense marketing campaign on social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat, has garnered the movie significant attention, but generally not the positive kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tall Girl<\/em> tells the story of Jodi, a high school junior who is 6\u20191\u201d, and her struggles and insecurities surrounding her height and social image. The movie has recently been subjected to intense online ridicule, with many quoting Jodi\u2019s infamous line, \u201cYou think you life is hard? I\u2019m a high school junior wearing size 13 Nike\u2019s. Men\u2019s size 13 Nike\u2019s. Beat that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some also criticize how students at Jodi\u2019s school over-exaggerate her height. Junior Lily Grove said, \u201cI didn\u2019t understand why every guy at the school was shorter than the main girl, and\u2026 I thought it was odd that the girl was tormented and picked on for her height multiple times during the school day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many claims online saying that as tall girls, they have never felt like outsiders and haven\u2019t faced the same insecurities that Jodi does in the film. On popular apps, such as TikTok, users create parodies of the \u201cmen\u2019s size 13 Nike\u2019s\u201d line by talking about their own struggles or over-exaggerating and crying when they hear it. A comment by TikTok user nqtiie reads, \u201cThe movie had so much potential but it was just too pathetic and dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students at T.C. seem to agree with the popular social media sentiment. Grove, who is 5\u201910\u201d, says she doesn\u2019t face the same type of mocking and taunting as Jodi. She said, \u201cI have never been blatantly made fun of for my height.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other T.C. students felt the same way about Tall Girl<\/em>. \u201cI liked it to a point. I thought it was a cheesy feel-good movie, but it\u2019s not like we discriminate against tall girls,\u201d said junior Clarissa Dallenbach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other critiques of the movie are surrounding Jodi\u2019s lack of personality. \u201cHer insecurities really did overlook her personality,\u201d said Dallenbach. \u201cWe know that she\u2019s kind because they say it in the movie, but there\u2019s more to your personality than being kind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall consensus is that Tall Girl<\/em> seems to be a bust. It received a \u201crotten\u201d score of 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, a movie rating system out of 100%. Grove said, \u201cI think as a whole the movie had good intentions of making tall girls more confident, but the way they produced it and executed it made it lackluster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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