5 Life Lessons I Learned From SuperBad
What a teenage story has to teach us about real life.
What do you remember from Superbad? Not much? NO PROBLEM.
I’m here to guide you on a very personal trip that I take sometimes while watching movies. Who hasn’t taken a media product out of context to reframe it?
Lovecraft Country did this very well. They turned work that fosters pseudo-scientific thinking about racism into something that brings up these discussions and treats it with great care and repudiation.
Superbad was my victim today and let’s look back at this 2007 wonder and check out the 5 life lessons I learned from Superbad:
Don’t hide important things for fear of hurting someone
I could simplify this as “don’t lie,” but the depth of that issue wouldn’t do justice. While some lies are important in our day-to-day lives to save people from our sincere opinion on sensitive topics, its implications are slightly different from hiding something.
In Superbad Evan (Michael Cera) hides from Seth (Jonah Hill) that he would share a room with Fogell (Christopher…
