Heathers

Heathers is an atypical high school drama - one filled with suicides, violence, romance, and a lot of really really stupid adults. It was pretty clear at the beginning of the film that the Heathers were the epitome of society's class-A bitches, for lack of better terms. They were popular, and they knew it. Although they carried themselves with charisma, they had characters that came off as being completely ditzy! However, they knew the rules of the society they lived in, and knew how to stay at the top of the food chain. Because of this, and also because of how ruthless they were at achieving this, J.D. decides that there is only one way to end the injustices and inequalities many suffered: by stopping it at the source. How will he stop the source?? Well, as he puts it, "the extreme always seems to make an impression."

Veronica, who is for the first part of the movie the Heathers' lapdog, becomes infuriated with how Heather Chandler treats her. She even wishes her dead, and J.D. swoops in as the romantic man ready to grant that wish with a morning mug of drain cleaner. Veronica initially is upset by this, but moves past it quickly. As J.D. goes on a murder-trip, he drags Veronica in deeper and deeper...and even though she wants out eventually, he is still in control (until the very end, of course, where he comes to an end in an explosion). Veronica goes from being bullied and pushed around by the Heathers to being bullied and pushed around by J.D., so not much changes there. Where Chandler forced Veronica to write the fake love note to Martha, J.D. essentially forced her to write the fake suicide note for Heather. Sick, right? Well, what's even worse is how the 'adults' in this society are reacting to it. Veronica's parents don't seem to care that people are killing themselves, until J.D. mentions that Veronica may be suicidal...and even then, when Veronica's mom finds her dangling in her room, she says some of the stupidest things! I honestly wanted to scream at her for how unnatural and incorrectly she was reacting as a parent to her dead daughter! God forbid Veronica was actually dead at that scene, would they parents have just gone on with their lives normally having lost their only child? It seemed like they would...which is exactly how the school handled the numerous 'suicides' happening. The only real suicide attempt was Martha, and people looked at her as though she did it to become POPULAR! The students, parents, teachers, and even the marijuana-smoking police (at least it seemed like they were having a clam-bake in their cruiser...) were incompetent and useless. At the scene of the crime where the two jocks were found dead at an alleged 'double suicide', the police officer picks up one gun with a stick and grabs it with his other hand.

Veronica's resistance to how things were going is shown over and over as she resists the Heathers, J.D., calls her father an idiot twice, and dreams of seeing Heather Chandler at Heather Duke's funeral (both Chandler and Veronica bathed in red light). The way things were going, it really seemed like J.D. was going to succeed at blowing the school up...but he suddenly has a change of heart at the end. The reason for this was because he did legitimately love Veronica at one point, and she had proven to him to be much stronger than he expected her to be.