Film · Prime Video · 1999
10 Things I Hate About You
The bet is the sin. The poem is the repair. Older teens, with the bet named.
Someone is paid to take the difficult sister out so the younger one can be dated. That is a use of a person, and the film knows it before it decides to be charming about it. Kat is not a problem to be solved. She is a girl with a standard, some of it pride and some of it sense. The poem works because it is specific and public and ashamed. A romance that ends on a confession is better than one that ends on a wink.
The Shakespeare underneath is a harsh play. This softens it into a high school, which is a mercy, and keeps the money, which is the part you have to say out loud so a teenager does not learn that being purchased is a meet-cute.
The eight
Industry
4/10
School, a bet, a band.
Household
5/10
Sisters under one roof, mismanaged by the plot and then restored.
Piety
3/10
No creed. A conscience in the last scene.
Courage
6/10
The poem is said in public.
Republic
4/10
A campus that treats a girl as a door prize.
Temperance
5/10
The scheme is rebuked, late.
Truth
7/10
The confession is actual.
Stewardship
6/10
The poem is the part to keep.
Live historicallyIf you started a friendship as a strategy, confess the strategy.