In her latest column, Claire Marie Healy pays tribute to the transformative potential of the simple kohl pencil – and makes the case for bringing back the bad make-up of our girlhoods
of the film, Corinne Burns – played by Diane Lane – is interviewed in her home by a TV pundit. The set-up is classicmoral panic banality; one thinks of the Club Kids, or supposed satanic cult members, who appeared on a daytime chat show sofas in the decade. In the scene, Corinne answers the pundit’s questions in a manner so deadpan, she sounds like she’s reciting bad poetry.
Corinne’s steady hands already transform the character, in our eyes, into pure image: a poster girl for punk.I say image, because Corinne’s punk credentials are soon revealed as surface alone. As the film progresses and the band’s fame increases, clues are dropped as to the girls’ actual lack of musical talent, or a defined point-of-view – right up to the point where the crowd turns against them.
If such efforts to make commercially-viable punk films in the early 1980s blew the bottom out of the movement’s authenticity, network television of the aughts distils a formula of teen girl rebellion into a form so pure, there is little surface residue on the resulting sheen.
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