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Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.
But the heroines are actually insecure, weak, and define themselves in terms of men.
As she tries to decipher the convoluted course of her Central American adventure, Elena McMahon, "not one of those who saw in a flash how every moment could connect," discovers memory and imagination--faculties that Didion's previous heroines did their best to deny.
Her fictional heroines can name every indignity they've been subjected to since birth, and because they are usually bright young women from troubled families in poor island backwaters such as Antigua or Dominica, their list of injuries is long.
Her heroines have been fierce and admirable, but their struggle to be acknowledged has necessarily entailed a degree of self-dramatization--even, you might say, of selfishness.