She's All That

'The sculptor falling in love with the sculpture' is the main theme of the movie. The story is just like 'My Fair Lady' where Henry Higgins bets he could change a flower girl who speaks Cockney into a lady as well-spoken as a duchess. The difference between the two stories is that Zack Siler bets he could change any girl into a Prom Queen. A nerdy girl, Laney Boggs is chosen. Zack manages to change Laney's appearance and actually she is in fact quite beautiful. In the end, the story shows that Zack falls in love with his own creation. However, Zack is honest. He is able to put aside his ego and apologizes to Laney. He is not hesitate to reveal his feeling towards Laney which is totally different as compare to Henry Higgins in 'My Fair Lady'. This story also tells us that in order to love somebody and to gain one's love, we have to be sincere and sometimes we need to make some changes and sacrifice our feelings. The irony of this story is that instead of Zack's ability to change Laney's physical appearance, yet Laney is able to change Zack's perception and he learns that beauty is not only based on the outward appearance but it also involves the inner side of oneself. Hence, the real beauty is what is inside us.

As a teacher, I have my own opinion towards the story. Even though the story conveys a message that beauty is not only be seen through the outward appearance yet, I still would not encourage my students to watch the movie. This is because the story relates the lives of teenagers with only sex, drugs and beauty image which are not suitable for the culture of our Malaysian students. I don't really see the story shows they are students who are really concern about their studies and attitudes. It seems that although they are students, they have much time to spend for entertainment. It is not wrong for students to entertain themselves, but there should be a limitation. Too much entertainment is bad not only to students but to adults whereby we tend to ignore the priorities in our lives.