Thirteen

Corrected entry: When Evie is eating pizza outside with Tracy, after their visit to Red Balls, Evie sees Tracy's other friend. She says "You're little friend is coming over". Tracy turns around and says "What", but if you look closely, her lips don't move at all.

Correction: She doesn't say "what", she says "shit", and lips do not have to move at all when that word is spoken.

Corrected entry: In the scene before Evie, Tracy, and Mel go to see Brooke, after Tracy says something like "I can't even remember how to spell photographer", Melanie looks in the mirror and sees Evie on Tracy's right (which would be Tracy's left when not seen in the reflection). But then when the shot moves away from the mirror, Evie's on Tracy's right.

Correction: Think about how Tracy and Evie are sitting in the rearview mirror: Tracy is sitting on the left side of the vehicle behind Melanie, while Evie is to her right. If the camera were to back up, Tracy and Evie would be shown in the exact same way they are shown in the next shot.

Corrected entry: After Tracy steals the wallet from the lady, she goes to a shoe shop with Astrid and Evie. When she puts money down you can see a orange marker, to show her where to put the money down.

Correction: Perhaps you're referring to the dollar bill in the middle of the stack with the large orange stain on the corner.

Corrected entry: When Tracy is cutting her arm, you can see the line she "traces" with the blade before she cuts. (00:38:05)

Ral0618

Correction: This just shows that it is not the first time she has cut herself.

Corrected entry: Throughout the movie if you pay attention you can see that the camera is getting more and more out of focus (the best scene to see this is when Tracy goes to the bathroom in school and just looks in the mirror to "see what she has become"). This is suppose to be symbolic because the worse that Tracy gets the more out of focus the camera is, making lots of scenes a little blurry.

Correction: Not really trivia. Directors use many techniques to express emotions or moods. For example using dark lighting to express moods, jerky movement to show the character might be under drug or alcholic influence etc.

Lummie

Corrected entry: When Tracey and Melanie are buying clothes from the van, many of the people walking past slow down or stop and look at the camera. (00:09:20)

jle

Correction: Maybe they are just watching them buy stuff because it actually isn't that normal to have a van in the middle of the street selling clothes, is it?

Corrected entry: After Tracy cuts her arm with scissors, she goes back to bed. Notice she is wearing a blue long sleeved shirt while she sleeps. In the next scene when Tracy wakes up and Evie is beside her, Tracy is wearing a green long sleeved shirt.

tonim

Correction: The shirt is the same but the light makes it appear a different color.

Corrected entry: In the scene when Tracy and Evie are getting high, the cut on Tracy's lip is on the right side of her face, but it changes back and forth form the left to the right side for the rest of the movie.

Correction: The cut only ever appears on her left side, except for shots of Tracey looking at herself in the mirror - only time you get a reversed view.

Ral0618

Corrected entry: In the scene right after Javi asks Tracy for her number, Tracy says she doesn't want him to go to her house. Evie then says, "My aunt says only one friend at a time", she makes the point that Brooke is her cousin (as opposed to her aunt) many times in the movie.

Correction: In the begging Evie tells Tracy that Brooke is her aunt too, she then later tells her that Brooke is her cousin, but she just refers to her as her aunt.

Visible crew/equipment: In the closeup of Evie when she is holding a spoon under her eyes, you can see the boom mic reflected in each spoon. (01:04:15)

Hamster

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Tracy: He was crippled, but only his body was cracked. It's not simple, nor is it an easy matter to explain. "Let's just leave it at that," she says and closes the holy book of lies. She covers her eyes, denying to herself what she thought happened.

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Trivia: When Tracy is spinning on the playground equipment in the final scene, she is wearing the clothes that Evie wore when they went to the neighbor lifeguard Luke's house. This may be a call back to her missing Evie after she left or a representation of how Tracy's style changed over time. Also, when Tracy wakes up next to Mel in the end she looks disappointed. And I have come to think that she is upset because she wanted to wake up next to Evie again. (00:49:51 - 01:34:51)

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Question: Did Evie actually love Tracy or was she just using her the whole time? Did she actually want to be friends with her?

Answer: Tracy acted like she had done everything Evie did before. She pretended she was already bad to become friends with them, so Evie thought she had found someone who was like her. Evie was definitely also in love with Tracy, but was also jealous since Tracy had a family who loved her. She wanted that. Yes she used Tracy, but she also cared about her.

I don't think Evie was romantically in love with Tracy. It was more about her wanting to *be* Tracy, with a mother like Tracy's. Also, she seemed to know that Tracy was only pretending to be "bad." I think Tracy's innocence made Evie sad, because there was a time when Evie was more like her.

Answer: My interpretation is that Evie hates her home life, so she drifts between various friends. She hopes to stay at their homes and feel "included" in their families. Notice how she kept trying to please Mel. Eventually, she overstays her welcome and people make her leave. Tracy was just the current "friend" who Evie was using.

Answer: I don't think Evie ever loved Tracy or cared about her. I genuinely believe the whole reason why Evie befriended Tracy in the first place was the reason she knew well how innocent Tracy actually was and in a way Evie was jealous of that so I think she purposely wanted to change her which she knew would happen if Tracy started to hang out with her. The reason why the whole friendship continued is because of Tracy's mom which Evie was jealous she never had. I guess she thought that becoming obsessively close with Tracy would make her feel like she was part of the family and Mel was also her mother and Tracy probably her sister.? That explains the reason why Evie ditched Tracy the moment she realised Mel isn't going to adopt her - Evie never cared about Tracy she just wanted her life and when she realised that she couldn't have it she tried to ruin it by snitching on Tracy That's my explanation on the whole Evie - Tracy relationship in general.

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