Andy Not Andrew Analysis

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His Name is 'Andy,' Not Andrew

In Andy, the titular character has to explain to the police exactly what happened at that party last night.

A lot of films that take place in a high school deal with the same topics, because they tend to be the most universally relateable. Dealing with bullies, dealing with a particularly bad teacher, dealing with a crush, trying to fit in, going to house parties. Most people who have been to high school can relate to at least one of these themes, if not several, or even all of them. Andy presents viewers with a high school film that deals with all of these topics, with one important twist.

When a film opens with a police interrogation, the audience immediately knows that whatever story is told leading up to that interrogation can't end well, and Andy is no exception. This feeling of inevitability drives the entire film, and throughout, the audience can't help but wonder exactly what it is Andy did that would result in the police singling him out. This feeling is only amplified by the fact that the film give the audience very few clues as to what will happen next, so the audience can only guess as to what will happen to put Andy into his current situation. Every scene follows the previous scene in a way …show more content…
While plenty of films about teenagers make it painfully obvious that the writers have never actually spoken to a teenager in their life, Andy feels completely organic, as if the characters in the film were the actual people in the story. All the little characterizing details, down to the fact that Andy gets annoyed whenever anybody calls him 'Andrew,' or the way it's made immediately clear how much Andy hates his first period teacher, all the characters in the film feel like real people with real emotions, in turn making all the events of the film feel so much more realistic and driven by real

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