Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-6052796-20150503012917

That's the thing about death though. Those that find it funny accept the fact that one day they are gonna die and just greet death like he's an old college buddy they haven't seen in a while. You'd be surprised how many people I've met, who are either old enough that they could keel over or simply have a disease that could get them at anytime. Some of which have shown fear of death, but others shown a sense of humor on the matter as a way to cope.

With that said, while this movie is a comedy, a really dark comedy. It wasn't trying to make death funny. Every death on that movie made things worse for the killers than it ever did better. The popular people they killed, earned more popularity as martyrs, something that wasn't their intention (Well not Veronica's anyway.) Veronica's conscience kept gnawing at her more and more, to the point where she's committed self harm to herself. They even showed at one point or another that all sides of the spectrum were more than just their cliques. The first Heather that died, implied that there was more to her than just destroying other high schoolers and being popular and that the latter of which seemed to imply that she became a Heather by pressure rather than just a need to be popular. She wore the color red which represented both Power, since she led the group and hatred, since she hated pretty much everything including herself. Heather Duke, before she took over, was a shy meek person who just wanted the same respect as her leader. Hell before she took over she was wearing mostly green themed clothing, the symbol of envy. After she took over, the power was too much for her and she became worse than the first. The third Heather, simply was someone who's bad luck almost got the better of her. All she wanted to do was impress her friends and it hurt her everytime, almost like Takano only not as strong as her. She wore yellow as a means to represent her softness. The jocks that are in league also had hints of depth too despite their short screen time. They had a loving father and a grieving sister at their funeral, the latter of which was the trigger that snapped Veronica out of the dark path she was taking with J.D. Then we have J.D. himself, on the surface he seems to be the lovable, yet psychotic confidant we'd all want in our lives, but once we get to know him more, we find that he's a time bomb waiting to happen due to certain circumstances. His father is equally psychotic,  his mother whome he implied was one of the few people he actually loved, was sick of the craziness driving herself to suicide and he himself believed that both extreme situations would cause people to wise up and that there were no social class in the afterlife. Which both seem like valid points until you see him try to put them into play. He wears black to show that he's outside the social box and despite his insanity he does have some standards. When the first Heather got poisoned, he initially tried to warn Veronica about taking the wrong cup. (one had poison, the other had a rather harmless vomit inducing concoction.)   The Jocks weren't even on his death list until after he saw what they were doing to the nerds and what Veronica told him about their treatment of her and Heather III. His problem was that he was too eager to do the killing, something Veronica pointed out before the kids started dying. She said that killing them wouldn't solve anything, but humiliating them would have at the very least brought them down a peg. Then there's Veronica herself, unlike the Heathers and J.D. who wear a solid color on their clothing, she has multicolored clothing showing that she doesn't know what she wanted to be. Then she started wearing black showing that she was becoming more and more like J.D. as time went on. In the end she stripped Duke of her power and decided to work on making her school a better place.

Don't let the genre of the movie fool you. Yes it says comedy however Dante's Inferno was known as The Divine Comedy and that had it's share of scary stuff.