Reviews of Ghost World

Ghost World

Posted : 3 weeks, 3 days ago on 30 June 2008 04:10 (A review of Ghost World)

An honest examination of what happens after high school between two best friends. Thora Birch plays Enid in an almost uncomfortably honest performance as a misfit who's looking for an identity post-graduation/pre-adulthood. Scarlett Johansson plays Rebecca, the more mature of the pair and more self-assured. This movie is all about how to grow as individuals, Enid and Rebecca most grow apart as people. Throw in Steve Buscemi in a career best performance as Seymour, the most hapless and hopeless mid-life crisis ever committed to a screen, and Illeana Douglas as the hilariously pretentious summer school art teacher, and you've got one tremendously funny cast. The dialogue is infinitely quotable, and the ending the correct mixture of poignant and mysterious. Did Enid just get on the bus and go some place far away like she wanted, or is the bus symbolic of her suicide? We never really know for certain.

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Ghost World review

Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago on 11 May 2008 09:26 (A review of Ghost World)

O final da adolescência, o que tanto tememos.
"O que fazer agora?" É do que trata esse filme. As dúvidas de uma garota diferente que se sente perdida no mundo.

Uma ótima mistura de elenco, duas atrizes maravilhosas e o steve, bem, o steve...
É um filme com muita emoção. Triste e divertido, que eu adorei.

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Ghost World review

Posted : 7 months, 1 week ago on 15 December 2007 06:16 (A review of Ghost World)

I watched this purely because I am strangely attracted to both of the female cast members who star in the show. I was certainly not left feeling hollow or superficial at the end of the film though. What starts off as a happy and fairly aimless movie ends up as quite a sad and emotional tale.

I know nothing about the graphic novel on which this is based, but I have experienced first hand the feeling of hopelessness and confusion which hits you in life once you leave college/university. You're safe for 2 or three years and then suddenly you're not on the tracks anymore, you need to make decisions and lifelong friendships can suffer and breakdown as a result. Being an adult is awful. This film documents the breakdown of a friendship between two close girls as one seeks to settle down and become part of the machine, while the other is not so keen on the idea and comes up with a series of excuses as to why she can not do the same.

The ending left me feeling rather sad. I think you could draw parallels between this film and American Beauty. Both are interesting insights into deadend lives in a suburbian hell.

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