TW: *mention of racism and narcissistic abuse*When I was 19 and watched the 2007 Hairspray movie. I always saw Amber von tussle as a typical spoiled, entitled, bullying mean girl character, just like her toxic racist mother. However, as a man in my late 30s, who has grown to look at things from a social scientific viewpoint, I've realised that Amber wasn't a mean girl like her mother. She was a mean girl BECAUSE of her mother. Velma Von Tussle was a narcissist, who saw her own daughter as an extension of herself, just most narcissistic parents do, raising her daughter to be just like her, which ended up causing Amber to lose her boyfriend, link larkin, because of her behaviour, to Tracy turnblad. And when you really think about it, she too was an example of her mother's narcissistic abuse. Her mother, who won the Miss Baltimore as a teenager, by playing dirty and seducing the judges, which she proudly and smugly bragged about and used her own daughter to try to relive her own glory days, hence how her immature behaviour when inez won at the last moment and foolishly, in a rage, revealed that she tries to rig the competition on camera, which got her fired (and in a deleted scene, arrested). Amber, in the final scene, showed some kind of reform by, whilst obviously being upset at losing to inez, accepted defeat gracefully, decided not to run to her mother's defence in the deleted scene when she was arrested, and, in a few brief moments, showed interest in black music, and even joined in with the integrated dancing, dancing with a black male dancer, who she was eyeing up in the final number. She may have lost the crown but she won something better: her own autonomy and independence from her narcissistic mother, with, possibly, a new love interest
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