Suicide anyone?
Posted in: Movie Reviews on June 1, 2006 at 11:45 pm by Glenn.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
My Rating: 5/10
I was interested in watching Sofia Coppola’s first film. I mean, what do you do on your first film anyway? Dale and I always joke around that all filmmakers should make a suicide flick just to get it out of the way. Its so… writer-y. But you do it, and shelve it. Not actually ‘do it’. But Sofia did it. And outside the very interesting concept of five sisters committing suicide because of the religious confinement of her Jesus Freak Mother (played by an old Kathleen Turner – what ever happened to this sex symbol from Body Heat anyway? Well, see her here in a not so sexy symbol kind of way) there wasn’t that much to the movie. All I was waiting for was how, and when they were all going to kill themselves. And THAT was anticlimatic in itself. And then it was over. The ‘boys’ who were obsessed with the girls were great. But they really weren’t in it all that much. Actually, other boys were which didn’t make all that much sense to me. If anyone SHOULD watch this it’s those religious fanatics with kids who they treat in a similar matter. Other than that, its just something that leads you on with no payoff at the end. Good music though!
Favorite scene: The whole prom sequence. Not just for the scenes but for the music played over the scenes.
