Bliss Cavender (Ellen Page) is a girl living anything but a blissful life. While she has everything she needs to lead a comfortable life, she is stuck living the life her mother, Brook Cavender (Marcia Harden,) wants her to live. Her mother is a beauty pageant-crazy woman that believes that such pageants are the only way a woman can get anywhere in life. Bliss, on the other hand, cares nothing about the stereotypical ideas of beauty and wants to find herself in the way that she sees fit. The answer is unclear until she becomes interested in a contact sport known as Roller Derby, where two teams of girls roller skate around a ring in an effort to gain points. Bliss, who becomes Babe Ruthless, must face the challenges of competing in a sport as a legally underage player and showing her mother that the life she had picked out for her is not the one she wants to live.
Despite being a teenage feel-good movie, I really enjoyed this film. The lighting was very nice throughout the film and was even used as a cool element to separate the differences between Bliss and her mother's beliefs. The pageants were always very brightly lit and the settings often looked like those from films using the old high-class British style of living. The derby and party scenes, on the other hand, were more like what you would expect to see when you attend a concert. The names were fun, the action was exciting, and I felt like I learned something new from the film since I had never heard of the sport previously.
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