I have just seen this film on one of the UK's BBC channels. I had never heard of it, and only knew of Emma Stone through ' La La Land ' which bored me to tears. But what a fantastic performance she gives here playing a student in a very non-progressive school. For anyone who thinks this is just another chick flick think again. With a great deal of humour and genuine wit it shows a school which literally brainwashes its pupils into the most extreme conformist ideals. Homophobia is rampant, and any young woman who strays from the straight and narrow is cruelly abused and punished. The sexual hypocrisy of all this is made clear and made with a lot of welcoming laughter. Stone is branded as a ' bad ' woman and after studying Nathaniel Hawthorne's ' The Scarlet Letter ' she literally wears a scarlet A of her own, just like Hester in the novel. No spoilers but her eyes are widely opened to the people around her, and in turn she made me laugh and cry at the situations surrounding her. The cast is uniformly good and the direction perfect. But to return to Emma Stone; it is certainly one of the finest performances and in my opinion, she should have received an Oscar for it.
Review of Easy A
