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I detest chick lit and get bored with torture porn , but it turns out that place the two of them together creates the proverbial peanut butter chocolate awesomeness . If you eat Jennifer ’s Body like uncanny candy , it works . Spoilers ahead !

Jennifer ’s trunk is as uncomplicated as chocolate - spiked spit and as complicated as you need it to be . I like that in a movie .

Here ’s the unsubdivided part : Nice , nerdy Needy ( the awesome Amanda Seyfried from Big Love ) is BFFs with the bitchy hottie Jennifer ( Megan Fox ) . They live in a lowly , Minnesota Ithiel Town where such an improbable pairing is possible . There are so few kids in their township that two little girls who played in the sandbox together can stay Quaker as teenager . But there ’s a job . Jennifer is always pushing Needy around .

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That ’s how the two farting up at a show for some lame indie John Rock banding name Low Shoulder . A band whose lead singer Jennifer is scheming to hook up with . It reverse out that Low Shoulder has a scheme , too : They want to sacrifice a virgin to Satan so that their circle will accomplish some success without having to do something “ halt ” like go on Letterman . Because they ’re in such a back country Ithiel Town , they assume Jennifer is a virgin . But as she says later , “ I ’m not even a backdoor virgin . ” Turns out when you give a non - virgin to Satan , it causes the sacrifice to go all undead devil on your fanny .

And that ’s when thing get sick . Jennifer has to drink rake to survive , and she ’s not satisfied just eating dumbass fellow member of the football team . So she set about pop off after people Needy likes , including Needy ’s floppy - haired , cunning boyfriend Chip . There ’s an awe-inspiring awkward / cunning / horrifying scene where Chip and Needy are lose their virginity together , intercut with Jennifer sipping stemma out of the rip - open body of another guy Needy has an unacknowledged crushed leather on .

Once Needy envision out Jennifer is a demon , she sets out to bar her . Of course everything culminates in a Needy vs. Jennifer vs. Chip showdown at the prom , an event that is infernal for girls even if they do n’t have best frenemies who are monsters .

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Sure it ’s a cliched construction ; you ’ve seen it a thousand times before . That ’s the way revulsion movies turn , though . They offer up a generic tarradiddle and the good parts , the original parts , number in the little tweaks and fucked - up details that offer you a coup d’oeil of the real - aliveness horrors that waylay beneath the CG fantasy . And that ’s why Jennifer ’s physical structure is so rewarding as a film : Things get really perplex the more you think about how this movie reverse your expectations .

So now for the complicated part . Let ’s set out with how this pic develop one of the central rules of small - scale revulsion . Here you have a female monster menace a female character . commonly female monsters – especially sexy ones like Jennifer – are out to get men . Female lamia bite on men ; Grendel ’s mommy tries to smell down Beowulf ; the Species chick murders cat who are boning her . There are exceptions , like the woman vs. cleaning lady fights in Aliens or Friday the 13th ( the very first flick ) . But those movies are quite memorable because they fly in the face of our anticipation .

Jennifer eats workforce , but she does it to get at Needy . She eats the military personnel Needy loves . Asdirector Karyn Kusama has said , Jennifer ’s Body is a movie about toxic friendly relationship between adult female . By place this story in the circumstance of a monster picture , it also does something interesting . First , it acknowledges that women are horribly serious , which you already knew if you observe The Sarah Connor Chronicles . More significantly , it recognise that women are grave to other women . Not just in a mean girls manner , but in an “ I will rip your lungs out ” way .

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Although we ’ve image countless movies where valet are dangerous to women , and to each other , you’re able to probably enumerate the number of stories that acknowledge distaff / female force on one hand ( please count all cleaning lady - in - prison picture show as one finger only ) . This is a issue we do n’t care to think about because it fundamentally undermines ethnical stereotypes of women as cattish but harmless . Here we see nastiness treated the way male aggressiveness is treated in fairly much every exclusive legal action movie you ’ve ever see . It ’s deadly , significant , and potentially civilisation - destroying .

At the same time , Jennifer ’s eubstance also plays with the pervasiveness of male / distaff violence in the real world . Jennifer returns to Needy ’s theatre after her proverbial ride in Low Shoulder ’s van looking like a rape victim , vacant - eyed and traverse in blood . She vomits up a horrific stream of black , ferromagnetic fluid , then runs out the door . In that pool of black gook , which Needy spends all night cleaning up , we see the first signs that this ai n’t no girly rape revenge movie .

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When Jennifer is given superhuman index by a cluster of douchey guys , she does n’t go after the guys for vengeance . Hell , she ’s psyched to be a god . Instead she goes after the tangible source of all her agony : Her right ally , who manages to have a nice boyfriend and an interesting hereafter as a “ narrative nonfiction writer ” despite being a total meganerd . She ’s not as pretty as Jennifer , and yet Jennifer suspects that Needy is somehow , sneakily , good than she is .

This is a movie about female wrath . And it ’s not the clean , sympathetic wrath we saw in Thelma and Louise ; it ’s not the trampy blankness we wanked over in Species . It ’s ugly , wrong , powerful wrath . The kind that ramp up empire and destroys town . And men are irrelevant to this wrath , in the same way Jennifer ’s life-time was irrelevant to the guy rope in Low Shoulder who off her .

There ’s something profoundly insurgent about a movie that say womanhood are raging , but not at men . Women have enough office now that men are scarce the issue . Now , we ’ve get something to work out among ourselves .

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I ’m not certain what multitude are expecting when they go to see a movie like Jennifer ’s trunk , but based on early damaging reviews I ’m pretty sure it was n’t this . All I can accept is that they expected something really highbrow , based on the fact that it was penned by “ I have a vocab ” writer Diablo Cody . Or maybe they thought it would just be long scene of Megan Fox ’s knocker , which would also be a letdown , since there are no tits .

in reality , that ’s not unfeigned . When Needy poke Jennifer in the chest with a box cutter , Jennifer screams , “ My mammilla ! ” and Needy compensate her : “ No , your pith . ”

Jennifer ’s Body is in many fashion just a horror trashfest , but there ’s also a peeled , gaping wound of the true in its heart . Anyone who can take their eyes off Megan Fox ’s tits and seem at the rage in her face will see just that .

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