Lauren Rule- Clueless (Other Topic #1)

Clueless.  There is no hidden meaning behind the title of this movie.  Clueless, 1995, is a movie about a popular teenager girl named Cher (Alicia Silverstone) who along with her best friend, Dionne (Stacey Dash), and the new girl, Tai (Brittany Murphy), deal with fashion, boys, and high school.  The three girls attempt to navigate high school while dealing with the main objective of a fifteen year old girl, finding love.  Cher plays matchmaker with the new girl Tai and two of her teachers.  The match for Tai turned into a total nightmare causing Cher to wonder where she went wrong.  When everything is said and done, Cher declares herself totally clueless.
The 90's fashion, blonde stereotypes, and predictable plot leave the view searcher for more.  One could argue that the purpose of the movie is not meaningful, but as shallow as the characters themselves.  I for one could argue the same thing about our first movie, Groundhog Day.  I enjoyed Groundhog Day, just for the record.
The same transition or transformations can be found in Clueless as Groundhog Day.  Cher is shallow and self-involved while Phil is arrogant and self-serving.  Cher transitions through several stages.  The movie begins with her life in a repetitive profane fashion.  Cher, just like Phil, grows and betters herself through the transitions.  Both of the protagonists better themselves by helping others.  Cher become the head of a relief fund for the needy and Phil becomes determined to help others by righting the wrongs that occur on Groundhog Day.
In my opinion Phil has several moments when kairos interrupts chronos, as does Cher.  The kairos moments happen when Phil comes to certain realizations; when he can't be killed, when he falls in love with Ria, and of course when the time loop ends.  Cher comes to realization when she realizes she loves Josh, when she realizes the importance that each of her friends brings to her life, etc.
Religion obviously does not play a large role in Clueless.  But we can always find aspects of religion if we choose to find it. 

Redick Introduction

Welcome to the Religion in Film 2013 reading and reflection blog.  Make sure to start the blog with your name and the subject of the entry in the post title area. Blog entries will be considered informal writing assignments and as such will be graded more in relation to content than style. Blog entries will contain questions and answers to questions, as well as reflections which relate to daily classroom discussions, completion of exercises, and reading assignments.  Any questions the student has when reading or completing assignments should be written in their blog.  Reflections may relate to connections the student makes between discussions in this class and those in other classes, between arguments raised in the readings in this class and those raised in other classes or in informal conversations.  Students are encouraged to apply the ideas learned in this class to activities that take place outside of the class.  These applications make great reflections.  The student should bring questions from the blog to class and ask those questions which were raised in specific blog entries.  As those questions are addressed and answered in the classroom discussions, the student should make note of the discussion and answers within subsequent blog entries. This class blog will reflect the quality of the students daily classroom participation and completion of homework assignments, and will be graded with this in mind.  The student may submit the blog for grading at several times during the course of the semester.  The blog is not the same thing as a compilation of class lecture notes; it is the product of written personal reflection related to the class.