Ask me Anything
Ask me anything is an "indie teen film" about a teen girl, Katie Kamperfelt, who decides to take a year off of school while her friends go to college. She struggles with friends, boys and family issues like any other teen but this movie has an alternative take on these usual adolescent problems.
The director, Allison Bernett, takes personal experiences from her childhood and incorporates them into this movie. We view Katie's life through the keys on her computer and the anonymous blog she writes about her life. This is important because the director doesn't want er film to be a typical teen drama, she wants us to focus on the emphasis on social media in teens lives nowadays and how that is the primary way they communicate. Throughout the movie you see emails, texts, phone calls, social media comments be the primary source of emotion through the movie. This is the way Katie communicates with her different boys and her family.
Although the focus in this movie is through modern technology and social media, the movie ahs an old fashioned love story sort of feel. Katie struggles with boys of all types and all ages, ones that her mother approves and ones that she doesn't. This is a common theme through all love stories over the past decades and I think Allison wants to emphasis that even though times are changing in terms of technology and the allowances parents give their children, love is love. There is always difficulty and there is something "classic" about this modern love story.
Callie Pasick
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