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Monday, April 19, 2010

2999_Vivian_The virgin suicides Analysis


The Virgin Suicides Analysis
Vivian Zhang





The story takes place in affluent Grosse Pointe, Michigan in 1978, a group of boys, who adored them, come together after 20 years and try to solve the mystery of their neighbors, the five Lisbon sisters. This film begins with the suicides attempt of the youngest sister, Cecilia, and the immediate aftermath of the neighbor. On mid-party in Cecilia honor and finally succeeds in taking her life by jumping out of her bedroom window and impaling herself on an iron fence. In the wake of her act, the Lisbon family isolate themselves even more within their community.The sadness and depression reflected from the contexts and atmosphere form the movie show, through plain narration by a boy, we can foreboding the self-exile of the characters strengthened the characters' tragedy.
And next is the new school year start, we can see the close-up after close-up shots of these girls throughout the film, most especially of their eyes. They are try to masked them suffering with a cheerful smile, and conceals many forget to cut ice-cold and grief with difficulty. Empty、hollow, almost soulless eyes that nevertheless speak volumes.





It’s seems peaceful daily life has been broken when Trip Fontaine appears. In order to show Trip Fontaine is the school girl’s heartthrob use a lot of close and middle shot in this film.



Trip eventually persuades Mr. Lisbon to take a group of girls to the homecoming dance. After being crowned Homecoming King and Queen, Lux has sex with Trip on the football field that night. Trip abandons her immediately afterwards. Film gave the boy grew up later period of reports, he explained his left: He was blazing when he was in pursuit of her, and once he got Lux the feeling was dissipate. Boy’s enjoyed the game in pursuit of excitement, if there is no stimulus, he will choose the next target. Coppola has not given the subjective judgment of his go away, her just faithful presentation for the experience of some boys in the 13-18 age groups.
However Trip’s betrayal is a blizzard of blows for Lux. She begins to lavish, often contacts with different boys on the roof. Having broken curfew, Lux and her sisters are punished by a furious Mrs. Lisbon by being taken out of school and sequestered within their house indefinitely. Mrs. Lisbon burn out girls’ favorite album and unable them leave their home, the Lisbon sisters contact the boys using light signals, and share songs over the phone as a means of communicating their emotions. Mother depredates the music and boys through telephone transmission of music to constitute a strong contrast. In this part use many close and middle shot to show us that adolescence is a stage of generation gap with their parents, and only the peer can know each other.


In the end, boys wander into the basement and discover a body hanging from the ceiling; terrified, they rush back out of the house. In the process, they stumble across the bodies of the remaining Lisbon sisters, who had all killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact moments before: Therese took sleeping pills, Bonnie hanged herself in the basement, Mary stuck her head in the gas oven, and Lux died of carbon monoxide poisoning by leaving the car engine running in the garage.

Director use the Mise-en-scene in the car scene to ingrain the personality traits of the Lisbon sisters. Before the orange ray garage, the girl one by one got off the car. Each shot distinguish their countenance and personality. And the girls come on is like fix a lattice arrive at forever.
The French twosome Air‘s music swells in films. “The Virgin Suicides” is very familiar to me before me watching this movie. Although it is a soundtrack, this is by far Air's best album. I bought it in 2002 and still listening to it over and over again. This album was not featured in the movie the way it should have been. This album is too good for the movie, its strong enough to be featured by itself as a true album release. All of the songs are beautiful and haunting; they fill you with a sense of romance and despair all at once. It’s like a feeling of very comfortable anxiety for the character. If you do not understand this film- listened to Air is that maybe a good method to understand this movie.



The costume effect is also significant in this film. In an earlier scene Lux is forced to put her jumper on when they have a male guest have dinner together, their mother has ensured their dresses cover their legs, cleavage and do not hug their figures. When girls slowly decent down the stairs in their prom dress, the boys looks stunning. However, this scene challenges this expectation, as the girls descend in what could be described as, ‘four matching white potato sacks’. The effect of the dresses shows that the girls have a very sheltered home life, and strongly discouraged from looking appealing to the opposite sex. The white color connotes innocence, virtue and virginity, and portrays all the ethics the sisters have been brought up with, and ensure the audience understands the expectations of the characters.




This film was beautifully done with its easy-on-the-eyes cinematography. At the beginning , the warm、light colors, the girls sweet smile that sinks me into the hallucination. Suddenly, Cecilia succeeds at committing suicide made me realize this film is very special. What a stark contrast to the warm color with the death of the girls.


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The use of light in this scene then develops, as it skips to nightfall. As much a the sunlight appeared to show the lovely sisters, the darkness seems to free Lux, as her body language then relaxes, and she even feels free enough to light a cigarette. This underlines the segregation between Lux and her sisters, as her body language and actions seem un-inhibited, her sisters seem to have regressed into disapproving silence. The cold light describe lose all children, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon’s anguish. They are quietly fleeing the neighbourhood, never to return.


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I've never read the novel, so I don't know how different about the movie and the original. This movie while one of the more depressing movies is brilliantly directed by first time director Sofia Coppola (it was also her first screenplay - quite impressive indeed). She has captured her own observation of the teenagers from a sensitive woman’s perspective. The suicides of these five beautiful girls aren't to be taken seriously; it's a metaphor the director uses. She wants express about the strange and often really terrible feelings teenagers have. In my eyes, this is fantastic.


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