That's how that continues? I forget, it's been awhile since someone made me watch that movie. I just remember thinking it was overrated, and I found it lame that the main character was basically a villain-protagonist, and they needed to throw in some lazy and out of character creepiness into the intended villain guy to remind us that the lazy cheater hacker guy was supposed to be good guy somehow. And now that's all I remember from that movie. If I had to rate it in a gif, it would be this one:
Also no, I don't think I could do that. I couldn't steal that, and am not especially interested in fancy cars anyway.
The movie was really about Cameron (the guy in the gif), and at the end he destroys the car as a final fuck you to his piece of shit dad who places more value on his cars than his only son. Even Ferris was taken aback by it, but Cameron was tired of letting people walk all over him his entire life. If all you saw in the movie was Ferris doing his dumb prank, you weren't paying attention.
Creepy guy was the
principal, that's who I was talking about so I'm not sure if you were paying attention to what I said since you didn't really address the point. He was never in the wrong to want a student to stop lying, skipping school, and cheating. Especially when the student in question is a narcissist and borderline sociopath who justifies his actions with what may be intended as some kind of catchy phrase that comes off as a flimsy excuse to dodge responsibility. Worse, he's the kind of toxic friend who uses his charisma to manipulate others. If Ferris's "friend" needs to stop allowing people to walk all over him, Ferris himself would be another good start on that path. A good quote here would be "It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”
Having moderate experience with people trying to walk all over me due to my size/appearance and gender, and definitely not needing that concept explained to me, I hope I never allow someone like that to be a major influence in my life, having a toxic friendship can be a worse influence than someone who is being directly hostile to you. At least with someone being mean to you directly, you know immediately that you shouldn't let them influence you. With someone like Ferris, it's much harder to just say no to them and drop them from your life before you allow them to destroy it.
If he weren't starting to look like the real villain of the movie, they wouldn't need to make the principal suddenly become a stalker who takes things way too far just to make him seem like a bad guy in all of this. It's a tired old movie cliche of the Well Intended Extremist, who would be in the right if he weren't busy being comically villainous, often present when the "protagonist" fits the Comedic Sociopath cliche, which Ferris does very quickly in the movie, as if we're supposed to forgive all of the manipulation up until that point based on one sudden and notably out-of-character moment which comes far too late?
I wasn't going to respond, but I'm assuming "If all you saw in the movie was Ferris doing his dumb prank, you weren't paying attention." was meant as an insult and it's hard not to take it that way. Could have easily not added that last sentence if you were genuinely trying to be helpful. Could have easily just talked about a movie, without any comments containing the word "you". Not sure where that came from, I was just joking around before you came and felt the need to explain a movie at me that I'm actually familiar with, though since the main post I remember from you was the "identity politics" one, I guess it seemed like I needed the movie mansplained to me? After thinking about that post it's hard to not then think of how much more frequently I get condescending unrequested explanations (that are often wrong anyway) than when I hide my gender online.
But maybe I just got that "tired of letting people walk all over [me]" message after all.
Obligatory gif: media.tenor.com/images/631721c4473a83368062c6148be82f25/tenor.gif