Directed by: Terry Zwigoff
Written by: Daniel Clowes (comic book), Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi
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movie girl:
This movie has two very adorable high school girls in it, one of them being Scarlett Johansson, so it’s definitely worth watching.
So, we have a blond (Rebecca) and a brunette (Enid), cynical and authentic, one that gets a job and an apartment, one that has an unexploited talent (drawing) and has trouble complying with rules and models of behavior.
Enid is a creative girl who does not live by the standards of her time, she doesn't appreciate what most people think is cool. This is why she can see beauty in a middle aged sociopath, a collector of vinyl records and posters, a quiet guy used to being seen as a looser by people around him.
I don’t know what to think of the end – does Enid’s leave by a ghost bus means she accomplished her fantasy of disappearing? Is disappearing from a world you don’t fit in good or bad?
It was a nice movie. Nice storyline, nicely played, nice to watch. I think the fact that it is based on a comic book shows - it has characters you like and sympathies with (and you can learn from them), but it doesn’t involve you very much emotionally or intellectually. It’s all about personality, lifestyle, dreams.
Rating: 6,5
movie boy:
I've rewatched this one barely remembering the story but with a very pleasant feeling of knowing that I will enjoy it. This is a movie dressed in wittiness, with absolutely clever lines about such an important part of any teenager life - high school graduation and choosing what to do with your life right after that. The movie is full of little details seeming absurd or forced but very revealing and comic on a closer look or a second view.
The main characters, Enid and Rebecca (extraordinary Thora Birch and blooming Scarlett Johansson) are that kind of best-friends couple who are feeding by making people miserable. In a continuous search for anti-ordinary people, they get bored not finding them and mock everyone who isn't until this practice hits the roof when they find Seymour (Steve Buscemi at his best). The relationship between Seymour and Enid changes the relations between the characters itselves and between them and the world. Enid will learn that knowing someone better will allow you to see the world through his eyes and by that to understand that in any ordinary person there is an extraordinary story. Rebecca will choose to follow a dream with the compromise that she could be transformed in an ordinary person. Seymour knew the consequences from the start but he deliberately loses control by allowing his only chance of "something beautiful" to happen.
In this "ghost world" where nothing is what used to be, it looks like you have to wait for your bus no matter what people think about you.
Rating: 6,8
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