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Good Influence In The Film Thirteen

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In the film Thirteen the main character, Tracy, begins the film with conventionally “good influences” as friends. (I put good influence in quotes because being a good influence is fairly subjective.) Tracy begins to gravitate towards Evie, the traditionally “bad influence”. (Again, parentheses for subjectivity, although Evie, in my mind definitely qualifies as such.) Evie is very popular, and she’s something of an enigma, but something about her makes less emotionally vulnerable kids want to stay away from her.
The root of this vulnerability begins with Tracy’s mother in the film, Melanie, who lets her recovering cocaine-addict ex-boyfriend, Brady, live with them which infuriates Tracy. In one scene she scolds her mother in a very strange sort
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