The hidden side of the facade of a unique youth film
[johnmakelton]
Thank you for looking at my review. Dear reader, before moving on to the main themes of the film, I will definitely note that director Terry Zwigoff put a lot of effort into creating the atmosphere of the film, especially the musical one. The musical compositions from the 60s and 70s that accompany the film transport the viewer to the era, but the heroines of the film, in fact, do not belong to her. In the course of the film, music becomes a bridge between two generations, connecting the main characters with their own time and, at the same time, showing that certain things and trends continue to exist outside of time.
The main concept of the film in my opinion is the theme of finding one’s own place in life and understanding that sometimes this is achieved only after strong shocks. Rebecca and India are very different in their characters. Rebecca is more persistent in her search, she is engaged in design and wants to become a journalist in the future. However, India is uncertain about its future. India is an example of a typical “indecisive” person who can contemplate things and the world around him, but has no purpose and no right plan of action.
The film also contains the concept of human freedom and independence from traditional stereotypes, which, in fact, speaks about the importance of the ability to develop and look for new options, despite the habits and limitations of society and traditions.
Finally, another theme that the film touches on is the realization that it is easy to conceive of immaturity and naivety, especially at a young age. The characters of the film are trying to understand their place in this world, but at the same time are in search of their true identity, and this is a real problem that needs to be solved. This is observed in various scenes of the film, where the characters “play the role” of other people and hide their true identity behind masks and outfits.
However, despite all the difficulties faced by the characters of the film, there is hope that in the process of their search they will be able to find their place in life and be happy, no matter how difficult it will be. As the characters of the film say, “We will continue.” And this message states that people must continue to walk their own path in search of themselves and their place in the world.
The main drawback of the film is that there are utopian, inconclusive moments in the film, which deprives it of life and realism. Objectively, this understanding of reality is no less illusory model of life than the one chosen by the heroes.
And the subjective flaws for me: secondary characters (Seymour, played by Steve Buscemi), only interfere with the story, the rudeness of the main characters in relation to others, (although this is caused by a teenage search for himself).
So it’s a very atmospheric movie that’s worth watching. Especially for those who love unusual stories. I particularly liked the judgment that it is important not just to find your place in life, but even more important to be yourself and trust yourself, despite all the difficulties and obstacles that stand in the way of success and happiness.
Thank you for reading my review, dear reader. I hope it made you feel, inspired, or just enjoyed it. Have a good day and see a movie you like.
Enid and Rebecca are best friends, high school graduates and in general extraordinary personalities. They have to find work, housing and themselves.
It's an ambiguous movie. On the one hand, the heroine of Tora Birch was such an original character that it was very interesting to watch her, and on the other hand, the plot turned out to be quite painful and undynamic (although there were a couple of unexpected moments).
Despite all the unusualness of the main character, her life, problems, drama and experiences were quite standard and trivial. What else could be expected. We are all human beings after all.
The acting is at its height, and the musical accompaniment I really liked.
A movie for an amateur, with an abundance of dialogue, teenage arrogance and deliberate disinterest in everything interesting and not very.
6 out of 10
Impossibly sad movie. One of the saddest, most hurtful and most pressing I've ever seen. Enid is very lonely, and the events of the film reflect her awareness of her own loneliness. School was a constant for her, a sarcastic attitude - a habitual way of life, a kind of drug that did not allow her to feel lonely. A girl with no place in life. She didn’t look for him as a teenager, so as she began to become aware of herself, she realized that what surrounds her simply doesn’t correspond to her inner sensation. Of course, she does not like all this, she does not like people, because she feels the obligation to coexist with them closely, in THEIR world, when Her world asks out.
The father is a good man, but very far from Enid. And with her best friend, Rebecca, it turns out that there are very few common interests and she is not able to really understand her. On the one hand, Rebecca is the constancy Enid is used to, the good and reliable of her old world; on the other, she bitterly realizes that Rebecca is not her man. Seymour seemed capable of sharing and understanding what Enid thought was really important. In hope and despair, she completed the image of Seymour, ascribed to him the highest degree of understanding. He is, of course, the closest to her in spirit among other people, but the most does not mean absolutely. She, in turn, is also closest to him of all the women he has met, which he realizes by the end of the film. Only Seymour did not think about the possibility of meeting such a person, considered himself a loser and was ready to adapt to women, and then realized that this is not how to achieve true happiness. He found himself a long time ago, but can not admit it.
What's the movie about? Something to keep quiet about. A film about loneliness. Why the teenager? At this age, you can still fight for yourself. On impermanence, throwing, which is expressed even externally: Enid constantly changes glasses, hairstyle, things. It’s hard to say whether my film is my movie or not, because it doesn’t express what I like, it expresses what I don’t like, but what exists. The film is really sad, it touches something that is impossible to think about to nausea.
Enid is a ghost, Seymour is a ghost, because they are knocked out of life, out of the present (and this is not about vinyl records), they do not perceive him because they are alone. And how many more of these ghosts, undiscovered, unorganized, wander the world? In Enid's case, experiencing this as a teenager was inevitable. But it is much more tragic when awareness comes at a later age (you have nothing because you are not).
Loneliness, which by all indications is capable of turning into fatal, if Enid does not create conditions of existence suitable for her inner world. He will find harmony and will cease to resent (Seymour, by the way, too). Enid already understands that there is no common world, that everyone has their own equal world, admits this for herself (gets on the bus), she has found a starting point inside herself, all that remains is to be outside, and whether she will have it or not is a big question.
I first saw the movie a few years ago on TV. Surprisingly, we usually do not show such a movie, and for some reason, a movie about the experiences of teenagers is often considered “author’s” & #39; Apparently, the topic is simply not close to the big bosses of television.
After nth time, I revisited this tape to see the whole thing. I liked that part so much that I picked up on the federal channel.
A movie about growing up, a movie about change. It’s hard to call it youth.
For which the director, screenwriter and actress Tora Burch would like to say a special thank you - for the fact that the film did not become fixated on the inner world of the main character. Moreover, we did not even seriously penetrate it. We cannot fully understand its motives, and this is not an understatement, but a space for imagination. You can and should see yourself in Enid. The present or 5, 10, 20, 25 years ago. It is the thought of the viewer that she reveals to the end, to which the director pushes, leaving everything superfluous behind the scenes, showing only the most important.
The main character is so nihilistic towards the environment and others in an attempt to corny find themselves, so tossed between extremes and their desires, which change as rapidly as the color of her hair, that the only pillar for which she clings is the old man Norman, who is always waiting for the bus. The man simply lives in the same world as Enid - in a ghostly world. Or just a friend. It seems that only he keeps her from crossing the line. Positive or negative? It's up to the viewer. The finale leaves no questions, but forces everyone to evaluate it in their own way.
The film is for the rebels, or those who were, and now only collects used records with those songs of youth that once seemed fashionable and rebellious, but now seem boring and old-fashioned.
A film about a wacky and intricate girl who really does not want to grow up, hides behind a mask from a sex shop, in which she is not allowed to go unaccompanied by adults, follows strange old people and listens to the music of the 60s on vinyl records. she seems ready to live life like this, discussing with her friend all sorts of trifles, like a funny hairstyle of a waiter or a drunk ex-classmate flirting with a guy at the prom.
But now everyone around is changing for the worse or better, and Enid stands still and does not want to move from this place. Rebecca, who spends her earned money on dishes in a new apartment, a father who is trying to build a personal life with a former wife. and finally Seymour, who at the beginning of the meeting was a sad shy guy in a green sweater, drinking a vanilla cocktail alone and waiting for a girl who does not come. and then Seymour, who instead of the usual & #39; says & #39; Dana and I' wears blue jeans - a gift, and forgets old friends.
There is a confused girl and a desperate man who is so lacking in energy and colors that he is ready for madness, of course, if someone helps him make a decision, two unfortunate people who can not find a place in life and - most importantly - can not find harmony with themselves.
The ending is open and metaphorical, but it's quite clear that there's no happy ending here. You can't get away from yourself on any bus.
Personally, I do not quite like the image of the main character. I do not like her maximalism, baldness and false pathos. but it does not make the film worse, it makes it more realistic. many go through this age, when ' we will still light up from the sun, if only we smoke'
This film is good especially if you are slightly in apathetic mood. my personal recommendations: brew a good black tea, think about something sad and start watching, necessarily alone.
Everyone sooner or later finds themselves at a crossroads. And what you don't choose, the important thing is that nothing will ever be the same again. Someone is given this choice easier, and he immediately after graduation looking for a new apartment, finds a job and strives to achieve his dreams. But someone still can not cope with this and therefore dye their hair, rude at work and generally feels constantly out of place. In my experience, people from the second category are often very annoying people from the first, which in this film you can see even not so much in the example of the relationship between Rebecca and Enid, but in the comments here at Kinopoisk.
However, as bad or good as Rebecca and Enid’s approach may be, it’s not just during adolescence that you find yourself at such a crossroads. You can sit at a stop where there are no buses for a very, very long time. Yes, this is about the hero Seymour, who seems to have locked himself in some piece of the “old” world for a long time and gets out of there reluctantly. But even a bus arrives at an abandoned stop, and Seymour and Enid, two very similar real-world aversions, must decide whether or not to board. You sit down and you don’t know where life will take you. If you stay, you will live in your ghostly world. Time to think less and less, the old world is slowly becoming the past. And rock dies, and vinyl records are not long...
In fact, this movie can be very useful if viewed at the right time. Not as a role model, of course, but as an illustration of where their choices lead people. And what in life there are their “graduation exams”. I didn’t feel the atmosphere at all, but it’s still a good thing.
It’s a comedy, of course, but it’s hard to get rid of the feeling that this doesn’t happen in life. A schoolgirl cannot begin to communicate with a strange old person without any fear, and even not without success to solve his troubles. Carriers of righteous indignation and sober cynicism from schoolgirl characters are also not very good. No, have you seen nuggets? The whole world is in delusions, while they have long seen and indignantly tolerate the bad reality.
The film from the first episodes makes you remember the cartoon about Daria. Well, where a high school student is ahead of the planet. In the Ghost World, high school girls are about the same, although they do not often come to success. Sometimes they allow themselves to look stupid, but not so much as to lose face. In general, the film is heavily cut corners, nothing hurts, although according to the logic of the narrative there should be an intolerable hell.
The main storyline revolves around the fact that the most advanced of the girlfriends looking for a couple new acquaintance. I wonder why. If a person does not have a personal life, then he is besieged by complexes. How can you save the participation of a young snot? And he does not protest and is not ashamed, which is strange for an older man.
Triumphing the life of a new friend, Enid destroys his simply out of love of resistance and snobbery. This is probably appropriate on screen, another thing is that this anger is righteous again.
Interesting adventures of the young informal become only in moments when life confronts her with art. Episodes of the teachings in the art studio successfully parody the Western art education system with its intricate, but in fact empty pathetics.
Scary on the outside, kind on the inside.
Submitting to what logic was the role of a simpleton collector given to an actor with such an unfriendly facial expression? You're waiting for him to be a man-eating rapist. In life, no one chooses a face, but cinema is not life, in it the coincidence of appearance and character is desirable. It's strange to see a guy whose physique is associated with the slogan "meth not even once" is capable of such malice. His character fits perfectly into the expectations of his new friend: he is with an idiot, but not so much that it is very repulsive, with complexes, but without the accompanying aggression, boring, but not causing boredom. He does not like sports, does not share the hobbies of the majority, is an absolute outcast, but at the same time harmless, is not interested in women, has moral principles and is generally just created for friendship with Daria. No conflict of character.
Because of the stamping, the absence of conflicts on the screen and the refinement of what is happening on the screen, the film has a bad effect on the audience’s emotions. Gesture "World" lacks, unpredictability and sharpness.
“Ghost World” (in fairness I must say that the translation of the name as “Ghost World” is more common than the official, but it is true, suffering to see the film advice for its search) is a sad, and sometimes depressing film about two girls who adsorbed themselves from the established laws of society, filmed by director Terry Zwigoff, who himself adapted (for which he received the appropriate nomination for the coveted “Oscar”) graphic novel by Daniel Close. The main roles were then played by 19-year-old Tora Birch and 17-year-old Scarlett Johansson, who, as they say, at that time were young talents with the visible potential of stars of the first magnitude. The main male role was in the hands of comedian Steve Buscemi, who often manages not only to laugh the viewer, but also to cause genuine sympathy or even fear (remember “Air Prison”).
Director and screenwriter Terry Zwigoff, despite the nomination of the “Golden Knight” for “Ghost World”, is famous for this film. After “Ghost World” on the screens came the black comedy “Bad Santa”, instantly turned into a classic for young people. “Bad Santa” with Billy Bobob Thornton stood out among other comedies for the excessive dominance of outright profanity. Santa is a good hero, a favorite of children, and here is a constant mat, breaking off from his mouth. Amazing! As soon as the Puritans did not tear this picture apart, but, it turns out, you also need to be able to swear and if you watch a film with the original translation of the Goblin (it happens!), then if you do not be a snob and remove children from the screens, it can really seem ridiculous black comedy. But “Ghostworld” has nothing to do with comedy. Girls who graciously rub the bones of their friends or just casual passers-by can not cause even an ironic half-smile. So if you are determined to see “Ghost World”, then be ready to watch a controversial film.
The contrast in the behavior of the main characters in comparison with the rest of society manifests itself in everything. Despite the fact that all of them at the school, which Enid and Rebecca (the heroine’s name) graduated with a sigh of relief, considered them as outcasts, they themselves present themselves as the most intelligent and adult graduates. The parties and the school theater passed them safely, but they had a great time with each other, indulged in their favorite hobby: to discuss and scoff at others with an impenetrable mine. They do not have any desire to continue their education, but suddenly their paths diverge, all the same friends have different desires. Dominant in the duo Enid perceives the demarche of Rebecca no less as a betrayal. In search of someone who could withstand the sociopathic character Enid finds a friend in the face of a much older collector of records Seymour (Bushemi). Weak, withdrawn, lonely Seymour seems Enid the most suitable candidate, this is who she was looking for, but for the first time the impressions were mistaken and Seymour also wants to love and be loved, and Enid does not fit into these plans in any way. This is the sad plot of friendship and parting, growing up and changing values. Subtle psychology on the example of unsociable girls with an emerging megalomania.
It is also necessary to take into account the fact that in emotional terms, the acting was very restrained, but it certainly fit into the concept of the picture. The monologues and dialogues contain the main driving force of the tape, pulling it uphill like a locomotive with the remains of coal in the furnace. Such a concept is unlikely to find numerous laudable responses in the hearts of the viewer. "Ghost World" is a movie from the category "mood". It can be suitable for viewing the maximalist youth of the upper classes of education, faced with the first problems that seemed insurmountable to them. The formation of an adult type of behavior is all the obvious and unadorned thought of the Ghost World. The very name of the tape speaks of its metaphorical nature. Through his smoky glasses looks at everything going on the heroine of Tora Birch Enid, seeking not to change their principles. Rebecca (Johansson) believed her, but then she threw it all away, rethinking her continued existence. And it seems as if the initial impression was that Seymour is an adult male counterpart of Enid, but this was a misconception that Enid posed as truth. In the film there are no righteous and guilty, it is a philosophical view of the existence of a lonely girl who believes that she is free to think and act as she pleases, but does this path lead to an abyss?
The film personally did not cause genuine emotions, it rather became the cause of speculations about the socio-psychological structure of our world, if you make a kulbit in the past and remember yourself as a graduate of the 11th grade. But for all the sadness evoke "Ghost World", that period was remembered sunny and happy. So this picture did not touch, but the final episode with the bus departing from the stop costs at least one point and total:
6 out of 10
Two friends are graduating from high school, but are not going to continue their studies. They only care about the idea of moving from their parents as soon as possible and starting a new independent life. That’s just a little trouble, one of the friends, Enid, who brilliantly played Tora Birch, you still need to go to summer school in the painting class to get a passing score.
It’s a start, but the film is very deep, there’s nothing on the surface. Here, such topics as creativity and art are raised, including its elitism, what is considered a work of art, and what is just a “tablet with the inscription “Toilet does not work”.
There is also a lot of focus on music. This theme is closely intertwined with Steve Buscemi's character, Seamor, who clearly has a calling to be some kind of music critic, but he's kind of shy about it, working as a manager at a fast food restaurant, only selling music records on Saturdays.
Enid and Simor have an unusual relationship. At first, it’s a friendship that eventually grows into something more, but how can it all end? They have a big age difference and completely different characters. Again, the topic of work by vocation or for money, which is better to choose?
The film is metaphorical. For example, an interesting parallel with the bus, which you need to wait a long time and which takes the heroine along a certain highway, something like the personification of the path of life.
In many ways, the film is presented as a youth comedy, but it is primarily a drama. In the end, I had more than mixed feelings, it seems that nothing like this happened, but it gets a lump in my throat.
In fact, it's not over yet. The film is based on a graphic novel, which has a continuation, a description of the adult life of the heroines and the disclosure of their characters and destinies, which already at the first stage of acquaintance give a good idea.
9 out of 10
To some it may seem boring and protracted, but I stubbornly continue to see only the pluses in it.
Tora Birch and Scarlett Johansen performed surprisingly well in this film, and harmoniously complement each other. But special sympathy and praise should be awarded, of course, Tora Birch, who amazingly fit into the role of a nihilistic teenager.
At first glance, it may seem that this picture is devoid of plot as such, but I only realized from the third or second time what the creators wanted to convey. And let me not realize this picture from the first time, but such things are not always possible to understand correctly at once.
Stylistically everything is very well sustained - music, humor (and it is quite special here), dialogue. And the key phrase, which sounds somewhere in the middle of this film, largely reveals its essence. We do live in a ghostly world, with our illusory ideals and values that are really worthless. And there is nothing wrong with the fact that the heroine, realizing this, decides to do as she said – “Get on the bus without saying a word to anyone, and then just disappear.”
And the film is about a man among ghosts or a ghost follow people - there is no difference.
This picture stands alone against the background of everything I have seen, and although it seems that there is nothing special about it, I think otherwise. Probably, the thoughts and decisions of the heroine are very close to me, and I may be subjective in some ways, but I have no doubt that this film is by no means empty.
From me
So said the main character Enid about his classmate. That’s what I say when it comes to this movie. Not to say that he somehow strongly hooked me or became a fascinating spectacle, from which it is impossible to break away. Nope. This is a quiet art house tape about two friends who did not enroll after school, and deliberately. Everyone is looking for themselves, although everyone sees themselves in different places in the future. Rebekah does not want anything extraordinary, she needs a family, a job, a decent income and a stable life. Enid is completely at odds with himself. She's rebelling against anything ordinary. This is expressed in her way of dressing, in her reaction to her classmates and to school, to the work that lies ahead of her. She is a pretty smart girl, adequately reacting to changes in her life, because she becomes an adult, but still there is hope in her soul that she will not have to make independent decisions, that she will forever live with her best friend in a shared apartment, without thinking especially about marriage, about building a career or something similar in her opinion “ridiculous” and “banal”. She doesn’t have any ideas for the future. Many would call her a goalless and unmotivated person who has no dreams. But in fact, not all teenagers from childhood know what they dream about. She is looking for herself, looking for her niche, goes to drawing lessons and hangs out with her newfound friend, a music lover, a weak-willed man of 40-plus years, a shy bachelor. She can't hold on to any of the jobs because she can't communicate without her sarcasm and evil irony. It's her summer. She's just defining herself. At the same time, she is quite an interesting person, at least because she notices everything around her in detail. She is interested in people, although she does not know how to communicate with them. Here, for example, she is terribly interested in Seymour with its small statuettes, perfectly ordered by a huge collection of records, she is interested in an old man who has been waiting for a bus that will not come for several years.
In the rest, I personally have nothing to catch in the picture. I do not think the problems of this heroine are close, even she is not the same way as everyone else. I don’t think this movie is too important for the film industry. You can probably think about it, it is multi-layered. And yes, it's the bus scene in the finale... it means something. Interpretations can be different. From “To the one who waits” or “the ghost bus goes to the ghostly world”. Of course, in a fictional world, Enid will be easier. You can sit here for a long time and think. It’s a very beautiful scene.
Acting works of young Torah Birch ( "The Pit", "American Beauty") and Scarlett Johansson are simply expensive. Steve Buscemi again created just a great image. He's an interesting actor, but his teeth -- my God, I'm distracted by his vampire teeth.
In principle, there is nothing more to say. Laconcino will allow myself to praise the film for its unusualness in showing ordinary teenage life and the conciseness of the creators.
Each person considers himself unique, unique and that no one can understand his interests and views. Perhaps this feeling is especially acute in adolescence.
Originally, the story is about two friends who, at the end of school, choose their own path. They see themselves above their dull-stupid classmates and their primitive goals, like going to college. They are ready to wander around the city idle, watch random people, sometimes even chase them for fun.
Rebecca still begins to think about her future, finds a job, in general, tries to arrange her adult life. But her friend Enid doesn't think much about life. The main character, Enid, somehow does not even cause pleasant emotions. She is always dissatisfied with everything, does not know what she wants from life, at times she is absolutely intolerable, presenting herself with all this as a misunderstood and special character. But people who emphasize their uniqueness and strangeness are not. Therefore, the heroine seems somehow insincere and repulsive. Her only wish is to disappear in an unknown direction.
Many write that the film has some kind of “special” atmosphere, which draws, conquers the viewer. Personally, I haven't noticed anything like that for myself. Yes, there is an atmosphere, but it is rather despondency that stretches throughout the tape. It was kind of pointless, boring.
The only thing that got caught in the movie was a man who was waiting for a bus that hadn’t been on that route for a couple of years. Especially the scene at the end, which kind of tells us that if you believe something, even if you put yourself out of your mind, it will happen.
4 out of 10
In stylistics and theme, it is similar to “The Catcher in the Rye”, but this is another era, and instead of Holden, two friends are Enid (Torah Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson). They have just graduated from school, but they do not go to college, because they are tired of studying for a long time and irrevocably, and they do not have any definite thoughts about their future career. In their backwater town reigns summer, they now have nothing to do, so the girls wander aimlessly through the streets, cafes, shops, where they, as per order, come across only freaks and scoundrels. A video disc store salesman confuses Fellini's "8 1/2" movies and "9 1/2 weeks." The pensioner sits on the bench every day and waits for the bus, which was canceled a couple of years ago.
The interests of classmates do not extend beyond hanging out with chicks and booze and entering college. The movie theater’s popcorn sales manager is demanding that Enid not use her sharp tongue against freak clients. The father brings home the hated Enid long-time friend and announces that he will live with her (mother died).
In general, this world completely sucks, and then Rebecca finally decided to socialize, found a job at the checkout (and found self-control not to be rude even to disgusting customers) and an apartment where you can bring men. And Enid found a strange guy (Steve Bushemi), who is obsessed with collecting old records, posters, photos and who you can not help falling in love with, because he is advantageously different from everything standard, consumer, primitive, which has long been standing across Enid’s throat.
The film is sad and fragmentary, more like documentary than feature film. There are no bright scenes and images, there are no dynamic storylines, here everything is like in the life of a teenage maximalist - uncomfortable, tearful and always out of place.
Enid knows what she doesn’t want, but can’t find herself, so he does a lot of stupid things and, realizing what happened, immediately does the same thing, because “yes, burn it all with blue flame!” And the eternal tragedy of life is that the future of Rebecca (possessing, unlike Enid, beauty – an asset much more valuable at a young age than a sharp mind and the ability to sense falsehood) looks much more promising than Enid, who has grown up mentally, but not socially. And after all, the acting careers of Johanson and Birch also developed in a similar way: external attractiveness, comrades, external attractiveness.
The story behind The Ghost World, like a complex geometric figure with many facets, touches on a variety of topics, but the heart of the picture is the story of a girl who is lost. Figuratively speaking, of course. With topographical orientation it is normal, but with life is not yet developed.
Enid, enlisting the support of his best friend Becky, makes the reckless and courageous decision not to go to college after school. Many will say, “A lazy slacker who does not think about the future, and what she understands in this life, therefore, she is not capable of anything or simply stupid!” and will not be quite right. All this lies on the surface, but what if you try to dig deeper, go into the wilds of the rich inner world of the girl?
Enid is not like most American graduates who have already built an ideal model of their future life, she does not try to fit herself to the standards of society: neither in clothes that will surprise the viewer more than once, nor in the desire to realize the notorious “American dream”, nor in love, according to the canons of which, young creatures are supposed to fall in love with tanned handsome men and fashionists. Enid alternates rocker outfits with scarlet dresses in tightness, can not stand a day at work, which requires only a polite smile and hypocrisy, which the girl is not ready to go, draws simply and clearly, not trying to pretend to be an avant-garde and ... almost falls in love with a strange example of forty years, locked in his own world, from which there is no way out.
She's also looking. She is looking for herself, her place in the world, she learns to understand her thoughts and feelings, to distinguish between the needs and ideas that are imposed on her, while not yet trying to curb her creative nature. Her friend Becky quickly socializes: she is absorbed by boring, but “right” work, and now the main joy once accomplice of wild ideas Enid, becomes a comfortable ironing board and a boring gray house on the outskirts of the city.
And Enid is still a free bird. Around it is a ghostly world: everyone knows what they want, and what others want from them, society and others in particular. And only the grandfather, waiting for the bus that has long since left the route, and our heroine are bright spots in the gray world of conformists. They are waiting for a bus to take them to meet what they want most in the world. They don't know why. But when they arrive, they will know.
Beautiful picture! How many real ' life' moments can be caught in it!
Before us appear two girls, one of whom is ' not of this world ' There's only one. Namely, Enid, played by the amazing Tora Birch. Their small and devoted circle, which includes themselves (Enid and Rebecca, respectively), lives remotely from the rest of the people. They have their thoughts, their feelings, their incomprehensible ideas. The image of Enid is simply fascinating throughout the film. Rebecca, she's just playing, I would say, a background role. And Scarlett Johannson did it well.
We are honored to look beyond the monotonous life of teenagers of that time. These two copies are a projection of a non-standard image. And this integrity is reinforced by another character, Seymour. Steve Buscemi was perfect for this role! From Enid and Seymour ' comes out ' a fascinating pair that contradicts absolutely everything, absolutely. You feel neither joy for them at any moment, nor sorrow.. just want to watch, to stay away from these two silhouettes, so complement each other.
The picture completely absorbs, you want to review, catch more and more new phrases, penetrate deeper into the plot, notice the imperceptible ... just enjoy.
"Ghost World" promised to be a pleasant sarcastic comedy for the evening. I thought I was going to take it to quotes, that I was going to see the second Daria and Jane, that it was going to be... Well, fun, at least.
How can I compare what I felt? Imagine you're watching Tom and Jerry, and when a mouse warms a cat on the head with a hammer, it doesn't get up, it stays in a pool of blood and brains. And all at once becomes very sad.
Well, that's about it.
I remember the scene where Enid was trying to sell popcorn in a movie theater. All her attempts to sarcastically joke and show how rich her inner world is - it is so unbearably shameful, unnecessary, stupid! But if you think about it, in reality it would be like that.
“Ghost world” destroys to hell everyone’s favorite type of sarcastic lonely misanthrope-geek, who has deep inside. Under the guise of a tough cynic hides, as a rule, a weak and angry girl, languishing from the desire to fuck. Or a weak-willed man who would have been drinking for a long time, if instead of records alcohol. Or an ordinary girl, a future mother and mistress.
He turns our little cozy worlds inside out, making us understand: nobody gave up, how boring music you listen to and how amazing thoughts you write on your diary. And sneeze at the Tyrannosaurus on your T-shirt. And green hair. And on a cat mask too.
And there is no eternal friendship if there is no basis for it except gossip and a common past. And your jokes are funny - well, if one in a hundred.
If you shake all this husk, these “punk days”, comics, suede blues, “high art”, plastic glasses, sarcasm and other strange obsessions, in the end only people remain. Simple, pathetic, petty, ugly the same. Everyone knows what they are.
The main theme of the film surprisingly easily falls on your own step - one-two, one-two, left-right, and the walk immediately becomes as heavy as the main character. What a mess we are. I really want to take the bus and leave your ghostly world into oblivion, but, unfortunately, they do not go there yet.
10 out of 10
A soulful movie. No, you're not likely to cry. And laugh too.
However, it affects all feelings, but puts pressure on those “pedals” that are deeper than seemingly simple human emotions.
Edith, Tora Birch. I think that's the role of her life. I don’t know who could have done it, probably no one, and if they did, it didn’t happen. It would be something else. There's not much to say about Scarlett and she has a small role, but the fact that she was assigned she played well. The whole movie: events, people, time... everything revolves around Edith. It is the central and most textural role. The girl is an adult and seemingly experienced a lot in her life, practically knows nothing about her. However, many situations she has survived, but only in her mind, her fantasies, which are not that dark, but rather abstruse and sometimes incomprehensible even to her friend Rebecca. Such a single girl. Not because she doesn’t need anyone, but rather because she’s “accustomed to dancing alone.” Throughout the film, we see exactly these “dances”, her cocky character, her originality, which sometimes borders on her sanity and at the same time is the problem for her. Not that she doesn't understand, no, it's her cry, but not for help, it's the cry of a man who has his head against the wall and doesn't want to go back. Yes, she understands everything, but at the same time she does not see anything better behind her back. And in the film, all these interweavings of feelings are perfectly shown and most importantly played. The character created by the director and screenwriter is just perfect for Birch. At least after watching there are no questions, there are no doubts, just sit and do not understand who played whom. Either the Torah was played by Edith, or the image of Edith is written off from Torah Birch. Everything is so perfectly and truthfully played.
In the cinema there are no big turns, some intrigues, cardinal stage performances, no. But the film became what it became due to the absence of the above things. Smooth as the sea in calm and as smooth, homogeneous and flawless.
This girl, so contradictory, so strange and seemingly incomprehensible, but just such, unlike others, unhappy and able to ignite from the fulfillment of a simple desire, by nature kind and gentle, but forced by herself to be prickly, desperate and not understanding what she wants, this is exactly such, she causes great sympathy!
I have never seen this character anywhere else, in any film. When I saw it, I was impressed. Not every masterpiece leaves such a mark after viewing, as this creation of Terry Zwigoff. It's just one Oscar nomination and it's a script. But the Torah played just great!!! Above all praise!This is her role and only her!
10 out of 10
Two schoolgirls - what is called "not spill water" - not by age, terrible misanthropic, and maybe just build themselves as such. The main occupation is mocking classmates and exploiting Josh, who has a car and, as they know, is completely trouble-free. But then the graduation came, the school was over - and the main problem is "who do I work then, what do I do?" However, this question is not so important as long as the tandem is strong.
Enid (the magnificent role of Tora Birch) can not be attributed to the classic beauties and cuties, but for connoisseurs, the copy is even very sexy: some sponges are worth anything, not to mention the sense of style. Realizing her non-standardity, she wants to break out of the ordinary and abstract from the gray masses of people around her. It is from here that her attraction to marginal personalities like a guy with nunchaks and a bare torso, interest in old Indian dances and protest behavior in the form of green hair grows.
Rebecca is a pretty blonde (Scarlett Johansson) - a loyal friend and accomplice of Enid in all her pranks and adventures. But gradually, finding in girlfriends ten and twenty or more differences, you cease to see a drop of similarity. Enid in search of self, self-expression, place in the world - Rebecca knows what she wants: an apartment, a job, etc.
Seymour is a forty-year-old manager who lives in the world of his small room, having from hobbies besides blues, jazz and ragtime - in short, a complete loser for most, but not for Enid. I wonder when he's with her, does he come out of the musical cocoon? Who is she for him: background, interlocutor, brightening up loneliness or really a friend? Who he is for her: another find for her collection of extraordinary things; clever but restless - another evidence of the imperfection of the world, which she must correct; or still something more.
The unfolding of relationships in this strange triangle, which for a time became a square, leads to the inevitable realization of loneliness as an extremely painful, but the only necessary state for understanding yourself and your feelings. Neither creativity (enid’s fascination with caricature painting), nor communication have such a breakthrough effect on the psyche as the comprehension of the “I” one on one with myself.
How real is this world if we all see it so differently? Perhaps our inner, ghost world is no less authentic. However, when we enter into life, we are forced to face a “consensus reality”: someone accepts its laws, someone encases himself in a shell, and someone continues to rebel and search.
While all the well-mannered high school graduates went to college, two girlfriends, Enid and Rebecca, showed the school the middle finger, deciding that studying further is a waste of time. For a couple, they went to look for alternative ways into adulthood - in shopping malls and sales of illiquid recyclables, neither living nor dead America. Remaining in the last summer of childhood in their native Los Angeles, they began to "wash the bones" all imperfect representatives of the human race, and there are a great many such losers everywhere!
But one day, the “bulletproof” heart of the sarcastic teenager Enid, an arrogant female snob, shook. This happened after a meeting with a modest and indecisive 40-year-old bachelor Seymour (benefit of Steve Buscemi) - almost a virgin and a hundred outsiders, who still look for, selling old, useless vinyl records and living in his isolated world.
Enid becomes irresistibly drawn to this shy and completely asexual single collector. Moreover, she decides that the maximum concentration of all possible complexes that can coexist in one middle-aged male is the treasure she has always sought.
“Ghost World” is based on a comic book and deceptively pretends to be another youth labuda for consumers of puberty. The veiled irony (the first time it is not clear whether this is done consciously or out of inability, which can be compared with an erection, but without ejaculation) deftly disorient the viewer, who, sooner or later, will begin to understand that something is wrong here, and the essence does not correspond to standard ideas.
Each frame emphasizes that this is a comic book with its flat, two-dimensional and unreal world (translation of the name into Russian as “Ghost World” probably disoriented part of the audience), in which there is no depth either physical or psychological. This effect is further enhanced by the defiantly bright and poisonous colors, interior shapes and freak outfits of Enid (this is a separate song), either mocking the fashion of the 70-80s, or sincerely admiring it.
The largest metropolis of Los Angeles turned here into a quiet provincial and absolutely antisocial town. Former documentary filmmaker Zwigoff actually managed to create a ghostly, artificial world, beyond which Enid just wants to escape. And if it had been a little less abstract, it might well have drawn the post-X generation’s manifesto. But even so it turned out an exquisite cult thing (in itself), from which it is impossible to take your eyes off and equally clearly explain the reason for your love.
Anyway, I still want to inherit on the page of this movie to say thank you for the feeling of life from this tape. It’s a blue movie, of course, and it’s unique. It is very interesting and very calm to watch, it does not have a specific plot, but there is a girl Enid and a girl Rebecca, “a Jewish woman and her Aryan girlfriend”, who graduated from school and, although they felt great relief about this, but with difficulty understand what to do with themselves and their lives. They try to love, work, make friends, create. And it seems to work out, but it's all wrong, you have to set goals and seize opportunities when you don't know what you want, but you desperately try not to let anyone build you. I say thank you for this feeling, so familiar to me and so clearly articulated here, when you can not find yourself and do not want to lose yourself.
I really like Tora and young Scarlett here, I learn what happens in life and those with whom I try to talk. So I don't see any flaws.
The movie was boring and won. I did not see in him any of the genius that many described. It's a pretty banal sight about how hard it is to move into the adult world. It may be so, but how unnatural it is shown.
The characters of the main characters are simple templates of the “difficult teenager”. Constant sarcasticity begins to tire after the tenth minute of viewing. Empathize with the girls do not want, even at the school graduation it became clear that they are jealous of others and to hide this from each other and even from themselves, pour dirt on passers-by. Attributed problems at home, deliberate selfishness - all this we have seen and this film does not bring anything new. Of course, such a movie usually gives us food for thought, but here, when what is happening on the screen is not catchy at all, there is no desire to strain the brain.
I can’t say anything good about actresses, but I can’t say anything bad. The problem is that there is nothing to play in the movie. There are no scenes that become a revelation. And the selection of actors is not the best, together they do not look at all. This is another movie I watched and forgot.
Two intellectual friends (Birch and Johansson), who are starkly different from their narrow-minded classmates, have struggled with high school and now decide to send college to hell, instead looking for work. Before the end of their last summer together, they will have time to experience a lot of interesting things. A completely innocent comedy about teenagers will turn into a wise parable about growing up and the harshness of life, about loneliness, about friends, family and love.
“Ghost World” was a kind of prophetic film – Birch and Johansson repeated the fate of their heroines. The first, matchlessly played the role of a sociopathic girl-nerd, disappeared from the big screen, like Enid disappeared into nowhere on a non-existent bus, the second became one of the highest paid Hollywood actresses and now shakes her, sorry, charms almost three or four films a year. No, I’m not saying that Johansson is a bad actress, it’s just that Birch has done an amazing job in American Beauty and Ghost World, and it seems like a great injustice to her lack of demand.
The characters of Ghost World are the pride of Daniel Close, the author of the graphic novel. Rebecca and Enid became iconic personalities of the American indie comic long before the release of the film, and after the film adaptation, their status increased even more. Enid, incredibly reminiscent of not needing introduction by Daria Morgendorfer, hides cynicism and sarcasticness, and inside craves big and clean. Rebekah does not hide - she is a desperately fumbling and rude young lady and, apparently, grows up much faster than her friend. The differences between them, like a reinforced concrete wall, grow closer to the middle of the film, and this proves that such gifted but slightly nihilistic people have no place in modern society that you need to grow up, and Enid is afraid of it and does not want to do it.
"Ghost World" does not take a single wrong step, never fakes, all jokes strike right in the heart, and the bitter ending knocks out a tear. It's a cheeky, funny and disarmingly human film about how pointless it is to give the middle finger to society and say "hate." On the other hand, Zwigoff and the company do not prohibit you from doing this. Especially if you are a teenager.
10 out of 10
In a bright sad and colic funny geek epic about growing up.