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
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