Movie review!!!

Today, as my first blog, I think that I shall make a review of a movie that I saw recently for the first time ever, Pretty in Pink.

Like just about every movie with Molly Ringwald, this film consisted of an insecure teenage girl who is in love with an either rich or popular boy at school, while the ideal boyfriend is always right by her side. It is hard for me to watch this movie and not feel some pity for the faithful friend, Ducky (played by the Ferris Bueller actor), who is obviously in love with her, and is ditched throughout the entire movie. The character that Ringwald falls in love with, Blaine, is rich, "attractive", and popular. However, he acts snobbishly throughout the movie, and condescending, in a preppy sort of way.

When Blaine stands Ringwald (Andy) up right before prom, she decides to go anyway, as she has already constructed a pretty dress from an ugly pink one that her unemployed father had purchased for the occasion. At the prom, she sees Ducky, and he forgives her for ditching him for Blaine and she forgives him for the few times that he expressed his frustration through hostile remarks; they hold hands and enter the prom together, and just when the movie seems like it will end perfectly, rich boy Blaine pops up and apologizes, stalking off in the direction of the door. There's a tense moment of silence before Ducky tells Andy to go after Blaine. She ditches him for the last time, and the movie is "resolved".

My question is, what about Ducky? Is this a love story or a tragedy of one-sided love? How can one assume that, just because he's a good enough friend to sacrifice his own feelings for his best friend's happiness, that his feelings have disappeared. During the last scene, he notices that some random girl is staring at him, and he decides to go dance with her, but this is not proper resolution.

However, this movie was a lot better than other Ringwald movies I have seen; the characters were much more complicated, and it was easier to see faults in even the good characters and redeeming characteristics in the bad characters. Overall, out of five stars, I would give this movie three.