13 going on 30, more like 13 going on disinterest

     13 going on 30 is arguably one of the all time best movies that was ever produced and a movie that I personally never get sick of. However, what truly stands out in this movie is its overall plot which is in regards to Jenna Rink, a thirteen year old middle school girl who wants nothing more in the world than to be thirty years old and have an athlete boyfriend that she has seen portrayed on her television screen before. However, when Jenna gets her wish and ends up in a 30 year old body of herself, just like any young adolescent, Jenna Rink discovers that this is not the love that she saw on television and not the way she wants her life to be.

     In this specific clip that I’ve chosen from within this movie, Jenna Rink goes back to her boyfriend’s house expecting him to play games with her or snuggle up on the couch as she often times saw portrayed on her television shows that she loved. She quickly is given a rude awakening when she realizes that this isn’t the way this situation is going and instead, her boyfriend is putting on a strip tease for her which disgusts her and brings out her disinterested self as Jane D. Brown, Anne Barton White and Lia Nikopoulou mention in their article “Disinterest, Intrigue, Resistance: Early Adolescent Girls’ Use of Sexual Media Content.” Her disinterested self can be described as being the stage where she is interested in sexual content that is being portrayed however, thinks that these specific portrayals of romance and sex are gross. After watching this scene, many individuals like myself find themselves chuckling as they remember thinking back to media portrayals they saw when they were 13 years old and thinking that what they saw on television is how the real world is. 

     At thirty years old, Jenna Rink and myself at 21 years old quickly enter the resistance stage, which also can be classified as the “wait what” stage. This is the stage in which individuals quickly learn that everything they saw and dreamed of through media is far from what actual love is and that when a guy invites you over to his house, he isn’t hoping to play battle ship or cards but instead is hoping to get into your pants. I find it fascinating how the article and movie clip clearly portray the different adolescent stages that an individual goes through after being portrayed to romance and sex on television. 

                                                                   References
Brown, J. D., White, A. B., & Nikopoulou, L. (1993). Disinterest, intrigue, resistance: Early    
      adolescent girls' use of sexual media content. In B. S. Greenberg, J. D. Brown & N. Buerkel-
     Rothfuss (Eds.), Media, sex and the adolescent (pp. 177-195). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.