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While it probably wasn't the director's intention to imply this, but strictly from wathcing Alice's everyday life, it can be surmised that power comes from dominating women. Although Alice's fighting back at the very end of the film defies this conjecture, I have disregarded the event, as it wasn't a part of her 'everyday' life, at least not within the timescale of the film. Apart from that incident, however, there were no displays of power in which women were not the victims. Although, the attackers varied between men and women, it seemed that women were the ones being abused.
Some direct attacks against women include Lila's boyfriend leaving her unexpectedly, and the boys ganging up to dominate the classroom discussion. In both of these, the girls but up an entirely feeble effort, if any, to resist, with Lila's actions epitomizing passivity. However, when women were the attackers, such as when Alice and her mother fought, or the drama taking place between Alice and her friends, there was quite a bit of discourse, arguing, and resistance from those on the defensive.
Witin this paradigm, Alice is incapable of expressing any sort of power in her everyday life. She is unable, initially, to confront the kung-fu boy, based solely on gender, and in her conflicts with other girls, she simply is underhanded. Because of her financial situation and existing social alliances, she is unable to exert power over her friends, and is unable to dominate her mother given a parent's inherent authority. She seems to lose this frustration at the end, when she breaks out of that system of power by fighting back, and winning, against the kung-fu boy.