Animal House - 5

This is somewhat of a classic (1978) comedy involving a college fraternity that is majoring in partying. In some ways the American Pie films are just an updated version of the same story. Set in 1962 on the campus of fictional Faber College, the story is pretty shallow and has the dean trying but failing to find reason for getting rid of the Delta fraternity. The audience can tell this is fictional because in reality getting expelled from school isn't all that hard to do, especially considering the behavior in this film that would definitely not go over, at least I hope not. It is interesting to see what pushing the boundaries of morality in film was during that time, not all that different from our own time really. These types of films show the duality of social beliefs about higher education. On the one hand, everyone laughs and assumes that this shows college life as they knew it in some sense, and on the other hand hope that college is not like this for the sake of there reputation now and the children they are and will soon be sending to college. There are very few films that really show that college is both good and bad for 18-22 year-olds, and its impact on the future of society.