Ghost World vs. High School
* Ghost World
High hopes for this one. High hopes indeed. A story of two "indie" girls lost in the dead zone of post-high school angst? Sure, I'll buy that for a dollar. I'm still relatively close to those days.....
Right.
I dug many things about this strange little picture. I also found my guts twisting with a low grade hatred of the central character, Enid. Not that she (Thora Birch) wasn't great in the role, It's just a classic case of being confronted with teen angst (of which we have all shared) of a different generational stripe.
So......whining teens + misanthropic cast and crew =
Feh. I already went to high school - and managed to survive the years since. I don't need to see it again on screen.
High hopes for this one. High hopes indeed. A story of two "indie" girls lost in the dead zone of post-high school angst? Sure, I'll buy that for a dollar. I'm still relatively close to those days.....
Right.
I dug many things about this strange little picture. I also found my guts twisting with a low grade hatred of the central character, Enid. Not that she (Thora Birch) wasn't great in the role, It's just a classic case of being confronted with teen angst (of which we have all shared) of a different generational stripe.
So......whining teens + misanthropic cast and crew =
Feh. I already went to high school - and managed to survive the years since. I don't need to see it again on screen.
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