Of all the film genres around, that of the high-school movie is arguably the best. The cliques, the slang, the youthful insouciance \u2013 nothing can match it. That familiar gang of characters you return to again and again, from the iconoclastic overachiever to the posse of best friends and queen bees. These movies are universally relatable. We\u2019ve all been through school and experienced the awkwardness of not fitting in or the joy of meeting new friends (although sadly our art classes weren\u2019t directed by Wes Anderson). In films about school, the students have an armour of youthful invincibility. This is their first love, their first moment of rebellion, and their whole lives are ahead of them, latent with possibility. Then there\u2019s the poignancy, the sense of rehearsing for real life, the growth of self-knowledge and self-esteem. These are movies about school, certainly, but they\u2019re also about a much larger kind of education.<\/p>\n
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