Reverse Engineering

Watching Lick the Star by Sophia Coppola is trying the put the idea of a normal seventh grade class. We have a cool girl that everyone wants to be like and her name is Chole. Chole thinks she is he queen of the school. She smokes to be "cool". Also, she has her own little group of friends. Chole is the one who can get away with anything she wants.Kate is an innocent girl who wants to fit in with Chole. Kate wants to do everything that Chole and her friends do. For example, Kate gets caught smoking and gets in trouble with the school for doing it.

Chole wants to poison kids at her school using rat poison. The code name that they use is called "lick the star". Chole gets her role changed near the end of the story. She gets made fun off for using the term "lick the star" and people find out that she is trying to use rat poison on them. Chole then tries to drown herself in her bathtub but fails to do so. She mentions at the end how "the tables have turned".

One of the books that was in the story that could be in the authors database is Flowers in the Attic. This is where they get the term "lick the star" in the first place. I love the fact that the video itself was in black and white. It gave the story a vintage vibe to it. Along with the music gave the story the same vibe. With Chole being the star in the school, I like how they made everyone in the story seem so innocent and seem like they are actually in the seventh grade. Compared to Chole she had on dark lipstick and smoking and she acted "older" in a way with everything she was doing and how she dressed.