Chapter 12
Drugs and Alcohol
Drunk or stoned? Normally these are not very attractive states. But occasionally one of them can be the trigger that lets someone’s hair down enough that we can see the human, imperfect person underneath the exterior façade.
In 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, the high school version of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, scripted by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith), Julia Stiles’s Kat is the hard-hearted bitch who everyone can think of reasons to hate. Heath Ledger’s Patrick is no exception, until they are out on a first date and she gets drunk for the first time in her life. He ends up holding her hair while she throws up in the bushes. And this surprises him. Her shell of ice cracks and falls in pieces on the ...
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