Yeah, yeah, I know I’ve written about Pretty in Pink before. That was just about the prom dress, though. Sally and I were watching it last night and discussing how annoying Andie is, so I had to outline it. Btw, as lame as I find the idea of Andie and Blaine even wanting to have gone out in the first place, I’m totally not an Andie and Duckie shipper. I think that the idea of putting them together is kind of ridiculous, seeing how the entire movie was about a burgeoning relationship between two people and, between the other two, an unrequited love on one side and an entitled sense of indifference on the other. Why would you WANT Duckie to end up with Andie? She’s kind of a jerk. She treats him like crap, acts like she’s never seen him do something ridiculous to get a laugh before, and constantly plays like she can’t understand him. After 8 years of a very solid friendship.
The whole movie is so awkward, and it’s almost entirely because of Andie. And not because she’s poor or because she’s picked on or because she’s supposed to be a little awkward because it’s high school and she’s supposedly having some kind of Romeo + Juliet moment and you can relate because you’ve been there and you know how it is to feel like you’re on the outside looking in and everyone is talking about you behind their hands and you don’t know if you can stick it out to be with this person, but because Andie is a creep and a half.
