I got so obsessed when I was a teen that I bought the book and read it in one short bus ride, I'm 27 now and I'm revisiting those memories, so sad and nostalgic.
I only read the book but I always felt the town as an alienated community that can't take care of it's own, and everyone in it acts on self interest even when they want to seem like they are helping the Lisbons they ignore them and their grief and all of it gets medialised. Even in their darkest hours, the girls are put on a display. Mrs. Lisbon wants to shelter them from the harsh reality of the outside world but ends up hurting them. I found it very interesting how the boys even as adults dream about the girls and don't question what their responsibility was in what happend to them.
SUCH A GOOD VIDEO ESSAY, TOTALLY RELATABLE. To know exactly what they went through and "the little secret" all girls knew when watching it. Such brilliant directing of the movie, Sofia Copolla did an amazing job! Loved the commentary, exactly how i felt watching the movie, can't wait to read the book !!
Excellent video. As a man I truly watch this movie like any other (at first) and did not really understood the message. That was before I found your video which is excellent and truly opened my eyes as of how I saw women and how everyone saw women. Truly changing my vision
Sin of Greed: Nothing is enough for them, not a worse life than people dying of hunger, slaughtered & sold into slavery. Sin of Sloth: Atleast try to fight for your own freedom, always expecting someelse will help them. Sin of Pride: If you cannot help yourself atleast try to ask, how the hell somebody else will know what you want.
To men or people in general who fetishize about trad wives thats how they were raised its not romantic or sexy its dehumanizing and not all women want to be like that
This was a really unpredictable recommendation from RU-vid but I feel so happy that person who’s really close to my situation, my age, also know about such masterpiece
I dont know if the book is better maybe but this movie was lame. I just watched it because I was told it has the style of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and this movie is amazing. But all I got was a story about a generic sl*tty teenager, who proves her mother right and ruins it all for her sisters. Everything is very much on the nose with this "oh everything is told from the perspective of the boys so they dont understand etc." Didnt captivated me.
somebody once told me that they didn't like the book because you're never told why the girls killed themselves. I was like erm, that's the point? Its commentary on the male gaze and how the boys never truly knew the girls, rather they were infatuated by the romanticised idea of these beautiful "creatures". You're not told because it's written from the boys point of view and they never truly understood the girls.
Well, if "the male gaze" is a thing, then so is "the female gaze" and both gazes mostly start the interest men and women have for each other. In this movie, the male gaze combined with a generic cheap chick, who did exactly what her mother feared she would do, amplified a disaster. Lux behaved lusty the entire time and she didnt care towards who really. She let herself get taken by a dude she never even really talked to before and who looked like the most classic dum dum to me. As weird as her mom was, she was right, cause Lux had no dignity and brain and could have easily become a baby mama in the one moment she got some freedom. Her actions ruined it for all the others. Its not nearly as good as the movie Picnic at Hanging Rock.
I came from your virgin suicides analysis and i just have to let you know i love this video so so much. You have such a way with words and i really admire that. I don’t lol so you said everything i’ve been feeling the last 3 years of my life perfectly! I hope to see your name all over the world someday! Keep going with your videos they’re so good!
Super interesting! But the movie bits' volume is way too low, couldn't grasp a word of what they were saying, even though I can hear your voice clear as day.
Just to lose? He has managed to make modern feminists and woketards look like clowns over and over again. I watched so many interviews and its painful how these people expose thesmelves over and over by trying to avoid his points. As a woman, I fully support him.
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The movie is about the boys. Its all their memories. The girls deaths is a metaphor for the idealized version of a woman that boys place onto girls and the death of that idealistic obsession that they have. Some boys never recover or grow from this stage of life and that is Trip. The verion of the girls that is portrayed is not real. They exist only as ghosts that the boys remember.
Im almost 27 years old with a degree in media analysis … it gives me sooooo much hope to see kids so young being so thoughtful and making beautiful essays like this one! You’re slaying!!! Articulating thoughts so well and organizing the video in a cohesive way, way better than what I could do at your age (not to sound too old lol) but thank you for sharing this!!
I like this film but there's no reveal as to what happened to those girls. The one boys thought he loved Kristen's character yet left her alone in a field. Why do that? I wish there was an explanation.
Priscilla Bealiue divorced easily for money and man.Priscilla Bealiue depends on Presley'sname and money throughout her life untilnow. Priscilla Bealiue got huge consolation money from Elvis.but she had no thanks no respect. no respect
I really loved your video essay! I'm 15 and I too could not sleep thinking about this movie, it really does capture the dreamy elements of girlhood but embodies the way girls are objectified, really makes me think back to my own experiences as a teenager. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the topic!
hey, i loved your video! just wanted to recommend the book real quick, i read it before i watched the movie and it is SO good. it really captures the decay and despair of the girls underneath the surface, this surface that was all the boys would ever get to see. in the movie, this surface was all we got to see as well, basically the whole movie solely covered that surface, but the book had this very casual way of showing the insanity of it all in the details. in essence, while the movie was held in those 'american dream' colours, the book was incredibly unhinged in the bits and pieces the reader got to pick up alongside the way. i loved it so much and it really gave a lot of depth to not only the girls but all the other characters as well.
Priscilla Bealiue is not weak.they often fighted.Priscilla Bealiue lip only me only Elvis had difficulty to her.Priscilla Bealiue always Presley'sname for money marriage for money divorce for money Priscilla Bealiue runaway with man.they tookaway with Lisa(4years)for hostage.their purpose was Elvis money Priscilla Bealiue made Lisa and Elvis unhappy.Priscilla Bealiue killed them.cheap woman cheap movie this movie'executiveproducer...shameless greedy egoistic sly ♀fox!
It frustrated me that no one understood them or wanted to understand them. During the progression of the movie the father becomes more emotionally absent. The mother at the end of the of the film says that she gave them so much love. Even though their parents loved them there mother suffocated them just like Lux tells her. Lux is safe but is trapped like a mouse she knows her fate but is more or less unable to prevent her destiny.
Lisa was against this cheap fake movie.toxicmother Priscilla Bealiue is executiveproducer don't get to cocky! Priscilla Bealiue divorced easily for money and man marriage for money divorce for money Priscilla Bealiue runaway with man they tookaway withLisa(4years)for hostage.their purpose was Elvis'smoney. Elvis'sheart broke off.he died 42years justafter Lisa died Priscilla Bealiue sued Lisa'sheritage For moneyandfor her son)this is"Coppola'swomanindependence?Priscilla Bealiue got Elvis's money throughout her life untilnow
This film obviously romanticizes their relationship to a degree. I am more studying how the film portrays Priscilla’s experience. I am sure the true story is much more complicated, and Priscilla is not completely innocent. But again, the film studies their relationship dynamic and her experience growing up with Elvis. The film is not about his career or his estate.
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Watching this movie when I was thirteen was certainly a good decision. I think it’s so amazing to see how girls naturally understand the movie without overthinking it, while men hardly get the message behind the film. Amazing video essay, you seem to be a really cool person!
It's sad that Priscilla seemed to love Elvis more than he did her, since he's in nearly every scene of her biopic, while she's hardly in his own story.
How heartbreaking … I honestly think Elvis did love her, he just reached a point where his fame consumed him, and the small piece of him that genuinly cherished her didn’t have the space anymore to shine. She became an afterthought.
