The Virgin Suicides

A real bummer is that this entire film is told through the perspectives of people who barely knew the Lisbon sisters. Maybe it’s just me, but when it ended, it felt like I had missed a crucial part where we truly got to know each sister, or even understood why they did what they did. At the same time, I think that aspect may have been the point. The truth in the end is we will never know what was happening in their minds, their lives, and particularly what led them to that decision. Instead, the film stays hyper-focused on what others think, whether it was their environment that drove them toward suicide or their own thoughts, the ones we never got to hear in any real form which leaves the audience to make up they’re own conclusions to each tragedy. Overall, I do believe this film has great potential and despite my mixed feelings on the storytelling it didn’t affect the amount emotional impact this film carries . It leaves you questioning the choice of directing a story about suicide, a deep personal choice that ended up being the conclusion to various characters in this film, characters whose stories/thoughts we really needed to understand, was left to be told by boys, boys who weren’t able to comprehend why or what happened in their home or heads to lead them to their decease; that’s something that I found super unique and what makes this one of my favourites.