The Virgin Suicides

Recently I made a film deal with a friend of mine where he would watch all of Sofia Coppola's films and I would watch all of Sion Sono's films About an hour ago he finished watching the virgin suicides and gave it a 10/10 which made me wanna relive this film too I first came across the Virgin suicides last year while I was doing a sofia Coppola filmography run The virgin suicides is sofia Coppola's first feature and follows a tale of 4 boys who are obsessed with their front door neighbours The boys lived across a family of 7 A dad A mom And 5 daughters Since most you have probably seen the film I'll just skip to the end In the begining the narrator says that everytime the boys met at business lunches or office meetings or reunions they'd always recollect the evidence about the sisters to figure out the reason for all of them killing themselves But they truly never did find out reason I think the viewer is also a part of the boys We also never did truly found out why the Lisbon sisters killed themselves Ofc we had theories but never the real reason Just like the boys the viewer never really did found out what went inside the Lisbon household In the entire film there's barley 2 scenes where we were alone with the Lisbon family And that shows that we were shown only a percentage of the Lisbon sister's lives This film truly captures the essence of hidden grief Unlike other movies where the character explains what they are feeling and why they are feeling that feeling Virgin suicides leaves in you in a mystery And it's very realistic since in real lives we have no clue what's going inside Someone else's heads I also want to adress the title of the film Before watching the movie The title "The virgin suicides" sounds like a virgin killing him or herself But after you finish the film It sounds more like a criminal case Like "The Ted Bundy killings" or "The night stalker kidnappings" It gives a more group feeling to it Even though the film is fiction You can't help but wonder why the Lisbon sister ended their lives What conversations they might have had before collectively ending their lives It's just an unsolved case...............