Ok, I know this is a movie, a role she is playing. This is not 16 year old Dakota Fanning’s new personal style statement. Dakota is way too sophisticated to go with this so obvious it’s almost boring lingerie as daywear, bleached hair, sharpie pen eyeliner, eff off cause I’m gonna do drugs and get laid now cause I CAN cause I am all grown up and I’ll effing cut you if you tell me to put on a sweater. Mom. [Insert massive eye roll and suicidal tendencies clip here]
RIP Youth.
I love Dakota Fanning. Like a young Jodi Foster. That kid can ACT. I just hate her in this role. Because all her little fans? They aren’t so subtle. They are going to imitate this angst ridden look, attitude etc They cannot help themselves. It’s the hormones. I’d wager that my 13 year old will probably try and wear a bustier to school at some point in the next six months because of this crap (then again now that I wrote that she will do something else just to prove a point that I’m not that all knowing, which we all know I am!). And here I was hoping for something more original than my own teenaged rebellion. Sigh.
Call me old (fashioned) but I’m sad to see Dakota’s youthful image slip away on screen and likely offscreen as well now. Couldn’t she have at least played some Jane Austen era nymphomaniac or something? That would have worked for me. There would be less eyeliner for me to wash off the pillowcases and less conditioner to buy for all that fried hair.
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