Blinding Brilliance of “Molly Manners” Forces Hollywood to Confront Its Creative Bankruptcy in an Age of Soulless Remakes

FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW about innocent coming-of-age stories. The new film “Extra Geography” is a DANGEROUS BLUEPRINT for a generation of girls, exposing the TOXIC and OBSESSIVE underbelly of teenage female friendship. This isn’t “Lady Bird”—this is a SHOCKING descent into codependency, academic sabotage, and a predatory “lesson plan” to seduce a teacher. The film doesn’t just observe girlhood; it GLORIFIES its most destructive impulses.

At its core, the story follows two boarding school students, Flic and Minna, who make a PACT to “become worldly.” Their method? Systematically targeting their own geography teacher, Miss Delavigne, in a calculated campaign of romantic pursuit. This isn’t a crush; it’s a clinical project. They study courtship, orchestrate private meetings, and gaze at their educator with a hunger that BLURS THE LINE between adolescence and something far more sinister. The film frames this not as alarming, but as a quirky intellectual adventure.

The message is CRYSTAL CLEAR and deeply disturbing: the pressures of elite achievement and identity are so crushing that the only escape is into shared delusion and ethical transgression. Their friendship is portrayed as a “high-stakes romantic entanglement,” a bond that justifies ANY action. When one lands a prime role in the school play and the other is cast as a “lowly tree,” their rivalry ignites, proving their loyalty is thinner than the script they malign.

Critics are hailing this as a “new classic,” but we must ask: WHAT ARE WE NORMALIZING? This film presents the stalking of a teacher as a charming rite of passage, and emotional manipulation as the bedrock of sisterhood. It’s a harrowing window into a world where connection is born from conspiracy, and identity is forged in the fire of mutual obsession. Is this the tumultuous reality of girlhood, or a chilling prescription for it? The most terrifying question “Extra Geography” leaves us with isn’t about the fate of a friendship—it’s about what seeds we’re planting in the minds of the young and impressionable watching it unfold.