——The most beautiful title I have seen recently.
"The skirt can only float up when the wind blows. The flower can't choose its color, and we don't need to be responsible for how we grow."
Borrowing this monologue from the movie "Stoke", "Death of the Virgin" also gave I feel this way. For example, life grows under the influence of various external forces, and an infinite amount of force majeure hinders us. In the end, most of our appearance is not what we want to see.
It is also an interpretation of "depression" and "freedom". The girl Stoker in "Stoker" is silent, taking up arms to confront the evil reality, even if it is helpless, but when the blood is red Sprinkled in the wind, she also got a cool moment of freedom. "Death of the Virgin" is not the case. Five beautiful blonde girls are repeatedly imprisoned and retreat, helpless by the status quo but unable to break free from the shackles.
There are many movies about the sorrow of youth and growth and the loneliness of boys and girls, with varying styles and different forms, such as "Beyond", "The First Day of the Rest of Life", "Girl's Diary", "Ghost World", "Breakfast Club" and so on. There are also many classics expressing the desire for freedom to break through reality, such as "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Asylum" and "Trumen's World". But movies like "Death of a Virgin" that show the shackles not in darkness, and interpret death so beautifully are rare.
From the beginning of Cecilia's death, she fell into her yard, wearing a white dress and looking up at the sky, her father supported her. The boys avoided, but this scene is actually quite beautiful. Even Cecilia committed suicide in the bathroom for the first time. The girl's blonde hair and face were soaked in a jar of clear warm water, and the picture was equally beautiful.
The Lisbons had no way of knowing the reason for her suicide, and then doubled their control over the remaining four daughters. In many scenes in the movie, four girls are nestled in the same room, dressed in beautiful skirts, leaning against each other. Contact with the outside world is the only thing that makes them happy, such as attending classes, such as parties. Blowing the night wind, aroused the boys' hands, and the journey to the prom together made them excited. And when Lux did not return all night, all good things ended. They were forced to drop out of school, and Mrs. Lisbon forced Lux to burn her records. The girls were confined at home, listening to the music from the boys on the phone, flipping through travel and fashion magazines. One originally had five beauty. The girl's lively family became lifeless. His father Mr. Lisbon's role in the movie is very pleasing. He has an enlightened side and is different from Mrs. Lisbon, but his strength alone is always inferior to the powerful cage.
Movies have been telling the story of girls from the perspective of boys. Until the last night, the four boys witnessed the death of four young girls in different ways. The lens did not allow us to see the enlarged pupils and the blush of blood. Lux died in the car with a cigarette between his slender fingers, but the cigarette butt had not gone out.
——"In the end we pieced together the answer to the mystery, but the cracks are still there. It is not life that lingers behind them, but the most trivial objects in real life, the ticking pendulum on the wall, the dark room at noon, human selfishness The atrocities and their own way.”
As the boy said, they did not expect the story to progress like this. The movie also kept pressing on without any warning, just like in reality we are subject to family and social constraints, we are all unconsciously locked in chains, not from a certain one. Major events, but the superposition of countless small and trivial things. The sum of these causes and effects will eventually be too heavy to extricate themselves.
The party night belonging to the girls is firmly supervised by the mother. The cocktail does not contain alcohol, and consent is required to participate in the dance... Such an education method is usually counterproductive, but Mrs. Lisbon does not understand. When she lost one daughter, fortunately she had four remaining, but when all five daughters died, there was no expression on her face, no heartbroken sadness, maybe just shocked, but selfish people will never realize Where did I go wrong.
The theme of the movie is still heavy, but it is not a positive textbook. For example, after Cecilia died at the beginning, I thought Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese would cherish each other more and cherish their lives, just like the bright light and color created in the movie, they should also live their lives so colorfully. It's a pity that they have such a mother, they are vulnerable to a blow, and they treat death so easily. The young girl did not know that when a person desperately yearns for freedom, he must be able to escape.
Of course, apart from the discussion on the subject of "restraint", other clues can be obtained through the different suicide methods of the five girls and the differences in time. For example, Cecilia, who was the first to end her life, didn't necessarily want to be free. From her diary, she had a lot of dissatisfaction with her sisters. She was also the silent one at dinner tables and parties. Because she felt that she was incompatible with everything around her, she could not love them, nor could she talk to anyone other than them, so her death could not be discussed with anyone. Of course, the deaths of the last four girls did not happen at the same time. The three girls died at home, and Lux left the house in tears and hid in the car. She was once surrounded by flowers, in bloom, with love and all the beautiful things within reach. She yearns for freedom, misses life, and regrets the young bodies of the girls in the house behind her.
The girl is dead and dreams, bright colors, dark themes. The environment in which they grew up dyed them, so they were not responsible for death.
The window sill was covered with mist, and white petals scattered all over the floor. The imprisoned air is suffocating, and the girl's dream is dying in a dark elm forest. All the details hint at the ending, but the lens dilutes these foreshadowing and spreads out, leaving as many beautiful colors and imagination as possible. Rather than being perplexed, it is better to die. The movie tells the extreme release of repression under a seemingly calm appearance. Just like all the pain shouldn't be heart-piercing, all the depression still has room for respite, just lingering on or making people unable to survive.
There is no sorrow and joy, but sighs. The girl is beautiful and sad. The boy said: "They know us well, but we don't know anything about them."
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