The virgin suicides

 

 Virgin Suicides:

Inspired by the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, a film critic said: " It is not important how the Lisbon sisters looked. What is important is how the teenage boys in the neighborhood thought they looked. " 

This captures perfectly what the movie portrays: The materialization and even obsession of a particular girl. 

The narration of the story by a male voiceover speaking through "we" conveys this idea, 

The story seems often focused on the girl, but the boys share equal attention. 

The important aspect of this story is that it is trying to show adolescence and even more entering the adult world. This teenage world is depicted through for example the gruesome parents, the depiction of their teenage years being no better or worse than most teenage years. 

In the film review I read, the author said: "The lack of any explanation is the whole point: For those left behind, they are preserved forever in the perfection they possessed when they were last seen ". 

I failed to first understand this, confused by all this lack of information. 

Sofia Ford read the book and loved the way the book captured "the longing, the melancholy, the mystery between boys and girls that exists during adolescence". 

When you're adolescent, things freeze and stay in this time forever: the Lisbon girls and the neighborhood boys never existed, except in their own adolescent imagination. 

The movie, The Virgin Suicides is set in an unnamed suburb in the American heartland, but the details resonate throughout typical suburban America. The novel's broad exploration of love, loss, adolescence, and memory is perceptive and deeply universal, despite its nominal investigation into five shocking deaths.