GIRLS

After debating for a long while about what movie to watch, both Brittany and I found that "The Virgin Suicides" worked best for this assignment; working towards the understanding of girls, sexuality and self discovery.
The movie discussed girls as a nearly separate entity, narrated by young boys who were attempting to describe the girls' elusiveness several times throughout. The boys constantly referred back to wanting to "put together the pieces" and figure out more about their secret lives. In the mean time, the girls were drawing and reading, attending school, bored in class, learning more about their natural desires. There was really nothing elusive about them at all. This didn't stop their search; somehow collecting diaries, lipsticks, letters and anything more that would allow them to understand, the boys closely observed these distant fixtures who only lived across the street.
The girls were trapped by a conservative, religious household which demanded that they remain reserved. This caused them to question the outside world and touch with their minds what they could never touch in reality. The girls had rock records which let them imagine a life of action, provocativeness and sexuality. They stared through magazines in order to travel. Lux wrote the names of her most recent crush on her underwear. The boys eventually described this lifestyle as "the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself". This seems almost a mockery because the girls could do nothing more than imagine themselves beyond their immediate surroundings and only functioned in fantasy. They lived around a group of people who removed themselves from the intrinsic part of discovering the "self" and instead worried about the exterior appearance of the current state of things.
Although this film was clearly a critique of the bourgeoisie mentality(one that is portrayed in the film as empty and removed from the emotional aspect of the human being), it touched on the more detrimental effects this had on the socialization of girls.




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