Laugh all you want, but did you SEE “Clueless?” It was a thematically faithful and surprisingly intelligent updating of Jane Austin, among the most intelligent of a sizeable string of movies which tried to contemporize classics. Other such movies include “Ten Things I Hate About You” (based on Shakespear’s “the Taming of the Shrew”) and Baz Luhrman’s “Romeo + Juliet.”
Her mockers are falsely associating depth (profundity) with heaviness or darkness and lightness with silliness, or shallowness. She is saying true lightness (happiness) must have substance (depth) to be true. She is declaring an enigma by insiting that true lightness, as opposed to mere foolishness, comes from depth, and she’s actually 100% correct. Moreover, she expressed it in a way consistent with the movie: easy to dismiss as silly, but with a greater truth behind it.
For the record, the movie was about an intelligent, but shallow teenager seeking happiness, and discovering it comes from doing good. A huge chunk of the humor comes from her language, which sounds banal, but is actually strikingly effective.
Hence, her vapidity as of late is all the more sad.
I’ll confess to not having seen the movie, so you may very well be right.