Ghost World

[tommytimp]

If chiqui's comment that the bus stop has been re-activated, wouldn't that make Enid's decision to board the bus the opposite of a "death ride?"

[duskwolf]

Well, not to get off-subject, but who doesn't think the note the girls left for the guy (sorry, forgot their names) is, like, the BEST. NOTE. EVER?

(My buddy at work and I have been leaving that note at each other's desk for years, albeit censored for the workplace, but we pretty much know what each other is talking about.)

[Deleted]

I watched this movie many, many times when I was thirteen or so. I don't know why it struck such a particular chord with me, but it did - and I never ended up buying it, either. I just rented it about 800 times, even though it left me in a little depressive funk every time I watched it. (Oh, and then I saw Requiem for a Dream for the first time.) Ah well..
I really want to watch it again sometime, if only to remind myself of what the note said! Man.

[minky]

I took the ending literally. She packed a bag and took off.

The bus stop actually having a running line made her realize that things change and she doesn't always know everything. Things she knows now may be different later.

It is sometimes hard for me to watch the movie since I was a 50/50 cross between Enid and Rebecca. Some things in it are painful to see. I do love the wacko Doug at the gas station or convenience store. He directed a friend of mine's music video. Has anyone Dave Sheridan play his chracter Stewart, who Doug was based on? It rules.

[chiqui]

I've just seen this movie (finally) and I LOVE it! Definately one of the DVDs I would buy, and I don't buy that many, because I don't care to watch stuff again and again.

I liked how it differed from the comic, fleshing it out.

I did find it was vague regarding time and place, which was probably deliberate. No cell phones, no computers or email. The feeling I got it was early 1990s and the place California -- it looked like Los Angeles, maybe the intention was for it to be a a mid-size, obscure city like Sacramento or Fresno. But then, there was little evidence of Latino culture. Puzzling!

[plainjane]

In high school, I was a Rebecca to my friend's Enid. A Jane to her Daria. I always interpreted the bus ride as death or suicide. Maybe because I just wanted her to fuck off and stop being such a killjoy. But now that I know that in the comic the bus line had been reactivated, I have a different opinion.

I totally thought it was meant to be LA.

[tinyshoes]

I took the ending literally too. I don't want to even think of a suicide ending. Depressing endings ruin most movies for me (yeah, I'm a big sap). I loved how Steve Buscemi's character wasn't all creepy, even though he had the potential for it.

[chiqui]

Buscemi definately did a good job with the guy. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was showing his mother fetching him after the session with the therapist, and the therapist rolling her eyes when he leaves. It just seemed so overdone and cruel to the character, who'd developed some dignity by that point.

[tinyshoes]

chiqui said:

Buscemi definately did a good job with the guy. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was showing his mother fetching him after the session with the therapist, and the therapist rolling her eyes when he leaves. It just seemed so overdone and cruel to the character, who'd developed some dignity by that point.

So much word. I think the movie could've done without that scene altogether. It should have ended when Enid got on the bus, IMHO.

[Deleted]

I am glad that I read this thread because I always assumed that Enid had killed herself as she didn't get into the art school, her father got together with the Teri Garr character who she hated and Scarlett became too conventional for her.

I also didn't get why Scarlett was considered so much better looking than Thora. She was very ordinary looking in this movie.