Reflection 4

I was a class chairman for 4 years. After reading Ryan’s own reflection about his life and watching Election, I started to realize that the election for class chairman was something of a gauge of popularity for me. It wasn’t about power. It wasn’t about making decisions. To me, yes, it was about being popular. It didn’t matter to me that my classmates took me for the black sheep. Of course sometimes I felt stupid because I’m the only one taking the blame. But there was something about being the class chairman that teachers always seem to favour. They let you off the hook more than you would expect. I felt important when they gave me things to do. I felt even more important when everyone handed me their phones during the spotchecks… And the teachers would ask me who I’d like to rat on. It sure brought back memories when Tracy tore down the posters and never got caught. There were times when I did something really bad in school and got away with it. Something to do with the ‘There’s a reason why he’s still here after 4 years’ aura I guess.

About the film, I would love to watch it again. It’s disturbingly funny. It kind of reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite. Living in the suburbs can actually be quite sad. I would never know how it feels like since most of us locals live in pigeon holes. There is something about the seemingly perfect community that is really dark. Afterall, being perfect is just an idea. It can never be attained. I guess that is what makes it really scary. If everyone was perfect, would things still go wrong? To me, suburbia is close to a perfect society. I guess this movie breaks off this little stereotype. That there can still be trouble in little suburbia.