February 23, 2014
Maybe I just wasn't in the mood to be depressed, but this movie was a bit of a downer. I guess that isn't surprising. When the movie is called The Virgin Suicides, and the title pretty much sums up the plot, a certain amount of despondency should be expected. To start with, a 13 year old girl tries, unsuccessfully, to kill herself. When she gets out of the hospital her family throws her a party and during the party she jumps out of a window and her second attempt proves much more fruitful, leaving her parents and her four older sisters distraught. In an attempt to move on, one of the daughters (Kirsten Dunst) finds a boyfriend (Josh Hartnett) who takes her to the homecoming dance. Her parents had a long-standing rule that the girls could not go out in cars with boys, so to make the daughters feel more appreciated, they lift the rule and allow all the girls to go out. Three of them come home, but Dunst spends the night on the football field with Hartnett. The parents become so infuriated that they force the girls to stay home at all times. This leads to some inevitable rebellion, which ends in a more sincere way than usual. Despite being depressing, this movie was not bad. Maybe it was the soundtrack, or maybe it was the acting, but something about this movie was intriguing. It is definitely my favorite Sofia Coppola movie.
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