Flick is all chin-out grit, a querulous, hyper-competent terror, the ultimate Ambitious Girl.
Dont get me wrong: She is a sociopath in this movie.
Election is a fizzy, bitter comedy about bad people.
Even in his original review, Robert EbertcomparedFlick to Elizabeth Dole.
These are not overt compliments: Flick, as I said before, is a sociopath.
But theyre also not overt insults.
And she is always, always competent, more so than her male rivals.
Who the fuck does she think she is?
her former teacher muses at the end of the film.
Flick is a character near-and-dear to my pestilent heart.
Election came out when I was in 7th grade.
That year, I ran for student council president.
I had been on student council since 4th grade, and this would be my third election.
Some parents were talking about the student council election.
That Knibbs kid is like that Tracy Flick, one of the dads said to another dad.
(Fuck you, that dad!
But also, much respect to your taste in movies.)
Now I take that as a retroactive compliment.
Plus, to be fair, he couldve just been talking about my chin and not my latent sociopathy.
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