Camelia’s father prohibited her to pursue a career and she didn’t want the same to happen to Jenny. Jenny’s understanding of plural feminism is also formed when she questions her mother's subservience to her father and why she never taught Spanish to her kids. When I become a riot grrrl, Brazil had its first woman president and I voted for a woman in my first presidential election in 2014. 1992 was labeled as the Year of the Woman as more women senators were elected after Anita Hill raised the issue in the Supreme Court ( a number that has increased but it is still small). Her feminism starts with the individual awakening and is shaped by the political connotations of her time. My favorite scenes from the flick are when Jenny attempts at making some feminist collages and this is where I started before becoming a zinester. Both Jenny and I were sent to our rooms and we resorted to music and riot grrrl images to keep going. I immediately remembered the times when riot grrrl gave me the strength to face my family and what they expected from me. Jenny’s cathartic experience made her realize that she was following her father’s dream instead of her own and she confronts him. Acid Test breaks with the cliched use of drugs in teen movies and the two trip scenes are accurate, as I could personally relate to them, and it deserves credit for that.
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The movie is not about acid, it does play a role in broadening one’s horizons but we end up learning that the real change happens when we are lucid. The drug allows her to incorporate new sensations that are enhanced by the messages of female empowerment in Giant Kitty’s music.
Jenny’s riot grrrl night goes from reading zines to taking acid for the first time. They are depicted in books such as Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus and Jennifer Mathieu’s Moxie (there is a movie adaptation by Netflix but despite the fact that both movies portray teenage girls discovering riot grrrl culture, their stories flow in different directions) and documentaries like Lisa Rose Apramian’s Not Bad For a Girl. I think no other movie recreated Riot Grrrl events like Acid Test.
If you are already familiar with riot grrrl, the scene will feel pretty nostalgic and if you are not, you will fall in love with it. It’s when Jenny and Drea attend a Riot Grrrl gig that they not only get to know Riot Grrrl bands and their main motto “Girls to the front”, but also zines, tapes, and other media that composed the DIY veins of the movement. Jenny and her best friend, Drea (Mai Le) read the 1991 Riot Grrrl manifesto. Little by little, Jenna’s comfort zone is shaken by the experiences she has away from home, and they will eventually broaden her horizons to perceive what goes on behind her four walls. Acid Test is Waldo’s debut film and it included more than 70% women and/or people of color in its cast and crew including a female writer/director, cinematographer and sound designer which definitely contributed to the movie’s authenticity. Despite Jenny’s privileged background when it comes to social class, there are other complex struggles that make this coming-of-age movie different from others in the same genre that perpetuate clichés and depict teenagers as shallow individuals. Jack’s alma mater is Harvard and he paved the way so his daughter could attend it too. Jenny Jones ( Juliana DeStefano) lives in Texas with her Mexican mother Camelia (Mia Ruiz), her white North-American father Jack (Brian Thornto), and her small brother Michael (Douglas Gamble). The movie is based on the memories of the filmmaker Jenny Waldo growing up in the presidential election year of 1992. I could write a long essay on how discovering Riot Grrrl at 17 saved me and shaped the woman I have become, but for now, I want to write about this amazing movie called Acid Test, which some of my friends quoted as a movie that could be about my own life. Riot Grrrl music and fanzines made it clear that there was nothing wrong with me but with society and it grew in me so much that it’s still part of my life. I grew up under a strict Catholic education, so exploring heavy make-up, heavy music, and liking both girls and boys, were complicated and confusing to me. I was living in the countryside of the smallest state of Brazil and it was hard to find someone who was not conservative. I was 17 and was going through a lot in my life with my parents being divorced, pressure to excel in all school subjects, and exploring my identities. Photo: ReproductionĢ012 was the year I discovered the Riot Grrrl movement. Actress Juliana DeStefano as Jenny in Acid Test (2021).
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