EASY A

This film is chock-a-block full of situational ethics.

Olive (Emma Stone) is a preppy, precocious teenager who feels her life is incomplete because she's never had a boyfriend. She makes up a story about losing her virginity, the tale spreads and before long, guys are paying her to say she performed various sexual acts with them. Olive happily takes their gifts and money until of course everything turns horrible for her.

This being Hollywood, everything works out in the end, but Olive never truly learns her lesson. She was still a prostitute, even if she wasn't actually doing anything. She took money to say what people wanted, and that's one of the most prevalent forms of prostitution around.

Aditionally, she begins her vocal prostitution by accepting a gift card for saying she slept with the school male homosexual, a favour to him so he'll stop being bullied. Again, this being Hollywood, homosexuality and homosexuals are treated as something and someones who can't be helped, rather than homosexuality being treated as a sin, as it rightly should.

Another moral bugaboo is the fact the Christians who speak out against Olive's alleged adultery are the typical judgmental movie Christians who are steeped in a whole bunch of sins and problems they're trying to keep hidden. In real life, love and compassion would and should be the desired order of the day.