Film Nostalgia: Virgin Suicides

"What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she could fly."

This film gives me a very "moved" feeling. I'm a very emotional person but when I say "emotional" I mean when it comes to me. Like I don't get upset when things happen to other people but when it's me it's a different ball game.  

The film is about five beautiful sisters that take their own lives. In which no one are able to understand why or put the missing pieces of their lives together. 

There is more to the story but I don't want to spoil it for anyone. I found myself about to connect with the girls on an emotional level. Feeling trapped and wanting to live that fast and crazy life involving boys and romance. But I find myself holding myself back along with my parents. Not knowing how to escape or even if there is a way. I feel like the girls knew that death was the only way they would be able to rid themselves from their parent death grip. But even then suicide or the parent's grip would all equal death.

I love how interested the boys in the story were. How they wanted to steal a look from their lives just to feel apart of it. How they wanted to be so close even though they were so far away. In the movie the group of boys steal the youngest sister Cecilia's dairy after she jumps from their second story window, and impales herself on the fence post. They were able to get a glimpse of the Lisbon daughter's lives.

(I'm not really good at giving reviews on movies or anything so if your looking for a film review this isn't it.)

There was a dark and light side of this movie and I'll give you some examples. In the film Lux (One of the daughters) becomes infatuated with the hottest guy in school named Trip Fontaine. The girls then went to prom and Trip and Lux had sex on the football field. She gave him a feeling he had never felt before and he did the same for her but when she fell asleep, he left her there and never spoke to her again. He said her loved her and that he had "a taste of love". Personally I feel like Trip did love Lux but never felt that way before, so he didn't know how to react to it. I mean it was bad enough that he couldn't get her and she was playing hard to get but when he had her it was surreal. (That is the light and dark side I was talking about. )

I want to end this on a good note and say that I feel as if the girls are free. Free to let their souls dance around the Earth and do what girls want to do, and that's to have fun and live. I would recommend this film to anyone and I have to say it's my personal favorite. But please don't take my word for it go and see for yourself.