'Easy A': Being bad to be good
By Matt Grantz, Student Life Page Editor
October 5 , 2010
 “Easy A” is the story of an average high school student who has always been in the background, the one who isn’t noticed by other students until she gains popularity, perhaps infamy, in the worst way possible.
The film starts with the high school student in question, Olive Penderghast (played by Emma Stone), explaining her story on a live webcast in order to clear her name. As the movie progresses, Olive tells her story to the audience through what are essentially long flashback sequences with her occasional narration.
As the flashbacks show, Olive is unfairly accused of sleeping around after an overly snobby, moralistic and supposedly Christian student, played by Amanda Bynes, overhears Olive lying to her best friend about what she did over the weekend.
This lie evolves into a whole campaign against Olive in which she is socially outcast by some and used by others as Olive assumes the role of Hester Prynne from “The Scarlet Letter” (and don’t worry folks, if you haven’t read it yet, one of our kind English teachers will gladly assign it to you.) Eventually, Olive must come to terms with her status and do her absolute best to turn things around.
While “Easy A” will not impress anyone with more sophisticated sense of humor, it is a true story that follows the patterns of modern teenagers. The storyline really does make sense (for once, thank goodness), and it leads to true comedy gold in some cases, while other times it offers simplehilarity.
And, despite all the funny moments, this movie also happens to have a moral, which, whether there by accident or on purpose, is a miracle not often seen in modern moviemaking.
In the end, “Easy A” was a funny and believable movie with a moral and thus earns this reviewer’s approval.
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