In the summer of 2022, days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some 500 high school girls gathered in Missouri for a weeklong mock government camp in which they elected their own governor and seated an all-female Supreme Court that would rule on their own bodies. Not everyone came from the same part of the political spectrum.
This image released by Apple TV+ shows Brooke Taylor and Nisha Murali in a scene from “Girls State.” This image released by Apple TV+ shows Brooke Taylor and Nisha Murali in a scene from “Girls State.” This image released by Apple TV+ shows Brooke Taylor and Nisha Murali in a scene from “Girls State.
The Boys State program, run by the American Legion since 1935, is more well known and better funded. The 2020 documentary, which chronicled the Texas Boys State, sought to capture whether the political attitudes of former President Donald Trump had filtered into young men. The results were a riveting microcosm.
As they do in so many facets of life, the young women of “Girls State” found themselves simultaneously pursuing a goal while being keenly aware of limitations placed on them. Murali loses her bid for a Supreme Court seat but becomes friends with her political foe. After her defeat, Murali speaks reflectively about the pressure she and others are under to live up to expectations — not least the expectations they have for themselves.
In many ways, “Girls State” becomes a film less about political victory than defeat. After Worthmore’s loss, she resolves to spend her final day at Girls State reporting a story on the inequalities between the two programs — an act of journalism as inspiring as anything seen on film since “Spotlight.”
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