the virgin suicides

[beware, i'm going to be critical- something completely new and unheard of for me]


let's begin wayyy back at the beginning:

over christmas break, my stepmom gave me a book to read, the ruins (i can't recall who it's by). she's a big horror fan and reads A LOT of books, but this was the first she actually recommended to me. a few weeks ago, i took it to etching in case i had some down time. this chick in my class asked if it was good, but of course i hadn't started to read it yet. well, i heard it was going to be made into a movie and i mentioned this to that girl today. annnd. her response was that the only books made into movies she liked were tankgirl (although it had been a comic book), children of men, and the virgin suicides. and we had a little discussion about that, so i figured the basis of that'd be a good topic for here (where i have trouble coming up with things to talk about.

i've seen children of men and the virgin suicides, but i haven't read either of them.

children of men i liked, a lot. but. the ending? apparently it was supposed to be left that wide open and make you wonder. i don't think it was a good place to stop. i was totally shocked when it did, i must have missed the whole climax of the movie. that movie made me realize what it was like to feel like you'd wasted hours of your life that you'd never get back. the second half of the movie exxxed out anything meaningful that had happened earlier. i was hoping for more. i think there could have been more.

i'd heard sooo much about the virgin suicides before i saw it and kirsten dunst was in it, so i was kind of excited to see it. buuut... i don't think any part of it was interesting. it seemed like a whole bunch of random, pointless moments strung together. a moral can easily be guessed at, but it's not really stated (clearly or un clearly). from what i've read about the book online, it seems to be written in a pretty interesting way: a group of men who had lived in the neighborhood during the time of the events regained fascination and searched for evidence and clues as to what had happened to the family.

but, yeah. maybe someday i'll read the books if i ever get enough motivation.