But she seems much more focused on her growing role in the campaign and her attraction to Joel. She ditches Brian almost mid-kiss to run to what she things is a mini-date with Joel.
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The Alana Kane character has gotten some attacks for being "out to snare a man" and always willing to "trade up"(movie star Lance, bigger movie star Jack Holden...Joel Wachs, who brings political power and I think Jewishness into the mix.) But...yeah, women do that. Men do that, too. It can hurt others who "don't make the cut", but its certainly real behavior.
See, I feel that Licorice Pizza walks a fine line between being "a typical teenage romance" (but it ISN'T typical, given the age difference) and something more adult and sophisticated in content. PTA takes very seriously (he has said) the "treacherous navigation of young love," and this movie GETS that (all those painful "other people" in way of the Gary/Alana romance, all that jealousy.)
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And when that goes awry and she seeks Gary out, that is it for Brian and the campaign.
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Yes.. Brian loses because he is too CONNECTED to the falsity of Joel Wachs. Alana can't continue with him and Wachs.
But also, Wachs' boyfriend asks Alana if she has a boyfriend, and she says "yes and no," and it is clear that she means Gary, not Brian. Its always Gary. And at the end of the movie it is going to BE Gary.
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