Key plot spoilers will be used from this point.
The reading that seems most in vogue at the present moment is a direct invocation of the arc of the Bible, setting Bardem's character as God, Lawrence as Mother Earth, Harris and Pfeiffer as Adam and Eve, and the house as the Garden of Eden and/or all of creation. With much respect to the very fine critics currently
Especially once what semblances of a plot that the film possesses began to manifest themselves, I was struck by the careful creation of a very specific kind of paradise throughout Clueless. This is, of course, baked into the setting of the film, as Heckerling has no qualms in depicting the affluent neighborhood of Beverly Hills, both in and out of school. And yet it never feels like a sanitized or whitewashed vision: the age range is from young to old, and the racial diversity comes oddly close to the California I knew. The cliques, too, are all too true in their pigeonholed
