So it's set at a liberal arts university and now there's some pseudo-intellectual premise to shield us from yet another
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shelemm — 11 years ago(August 14, 2014 06:07 PM)
"This movie on the other hand had pointless contradictions and every time it seems to posit a stance it had something happen immediately to oppose it"
In a word, NO.
The explicit theme of the movie is learning how to say no. It starts with the scene in which we meet zibby at the diner and she talks about improv. In improv, she says, you can't say no; you have to say yes to everything then add something.
The rest of the movie has Jesse being prodded to say yes all the time, even when he wants to say no. The mysterious Zac Effron character says: "Fortune never smiles on those who say no." Zibby is constantly prodding him, literally not figuratively, with a jab to the stomach and other prods. At the party, on the school stage where they first hug, in her dorm room. He is constantly asked to say yes, even when we see he has trepidation. It is a constant theme in the movie, and finally he finds something he can take a stand against before he goes too far.