This is one of those movies that appeal to me tremendously, that is movies about childhood and coming of age written by and for adults. Most of them are based on books, making beautiful stories, with soul and originality.
In "The Virgin Suicides" the story is told by four kids, trying to understand five beautiful girls in a very strict family, living across the street. Final tragedy makes them only less likely to understand the feelings and lives of the girls and renders them impotent watchers of a story they haven't been part of, just like everyone else.
But this is not a moral easily detected. This is not a movie where black is black and white is white and the ideas of the writer/director are forcefully pushed down one's throat. The story is watched and then relayed to the viewer. You can either sympathize with the strict moral mother or hate her you can agree with the "freedom or death" slogan or believe it stupid; you can understand the reactions of the boys or curse them for not acting faster or better or differently.
Bottom line: you have to see it to make something of it. I personally think the movie is a good one, but not a great one. If I could, I would rate it 7.4.
In "The Virgin Suicides" the story is told by four kids, trying to understand five beautiful girls in a very strict family, living across the street. Final tragedy makes them only less likely to understand the feelings and lives of the girls and renders them impotent watchers of a story they haven't been part of, just like everyone else.
But this is not a moral easily detected. This is not a movie where black is black and white is white and the ideas of the writer/director are forcefully pushed down one's throat. The story is watched and then relayed to the viewer. You can either sympathize with the strict moral mother or hate her you can agree with the "freedom or death" slogan or believe it stupid; you can understand the reactions of the boys or curse them for not acting faster or better or differently.
Bottom line: you have to see it to make something of it. I personally think the movie is a good one, but not a great one. If I could, I would rate it 7.4.