Reasons why you should watch Heathers (1988)

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• Shows how society exploits suicide for their own benefit
• One kickass female protagonist that admits she’s done wrong in the end instead of making excuses for her behavior
• This movie inspired Mean Girls and Scream Queens
• A hell of a dark story line for your typical 80s high school movie 
• Winona Ryder’s sarcasm
• If a popular student dies, the whole school will notice. If a “nobody” dies, everyone waves it off. 
• Three Queen Bitches™ that actually struggle with various conflicts in their lives like every other teenage student
• Accurately portrays how grief of a fellow student’s suicide doesn’t feel genuine
• Popular female protagonist doesn’t abandon her pre-popularity friendships
• Chilling parallels (”Great pate, but I gotta motor if I want to get to that party/funeral”)
• Over exaggerated but still relatively accurate caricature of brutal social hierarchy that’s high school
• The AESTHETICS and COLOR SYMBOLISM
• Adults are generally unhelpful when it comes to high school matters 
• Black comedy that’s so humorous and morbid to the point where it’s sickly hilarious 
• Portrays the lesson that killing a problem doesn’t always solve it