Good movie but grossly overrated

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It starts as a bad analogy. Detroit did not die simply because of the auto industry collapse, but because the diversity that came in made it too dangerous for people to stay. So it is the lack of borders and boundaries that killed the towns. I feel the same about the girls. NONE OF THE GIRLS WOULD HAVE KILLED THEMSELVES IF THIS WAS REAL LIFE RATHER THEN FICTION. The truth is children are made stronger and happier when they interact more with their family, and when their parents set strict boundaries. Even too strict, if done without abuse is not a big problem. They were not lonely, they had each other and their parents. They were too young to actually need boys in their lives. I mean it would have been OK, but in real life, kids seldom act out because of strictness. I have seen families where the parents have strict expectations, and are overprotective, and the kids that come from such homes are extremely stable and successful. Familiarity and routine are great for teens, even though they say they don't like them. All I am seeing is a writer who knows very little about life, or about girls trying to fit what happened into his unrealistic point of view. No, diversity is not great for neighborhoods. No, strictness, and overprotective behavior that is loving and unabusive is NOT BADS for teens, and would never result in suicide. And a BS story, no matter how pretty is not great art.

This film is such a tearjerker and gives you a whole amount of fear for these girls because their parents were such religious control freaks. It was really awful to see the sisters die one by one especially Kirsten Dunst's character Lux Lisbon.Now at the beginning, I thought the parents were just ordinary folk wanting for the daughters to do well in school. However as the movie goes on, you would really be more scared for the girls sake. I say the father and mother beat them up too as well as burning some of their stuff.Lets just say, I'm glad this is a fiction movie!

Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides is a one of a kind film that evokes a certain ephemeral yearning that hearkens to the days of our teenage hood, when hormones rage, emotions flare, and life has just begun its parade of confusion, tragedy and wonder. It's hard film to put in a box as it evokes a special kind of mournful atmosphere that's hard to duplicate, and an atmospheric, lurid quality that I've never seen done so well. Except ,aye in Donnie Darko. Coppola almost borrows from Cameron Crowe's gauzy, cloud stained aesthetic with her combination of ethereal music, free flowing work from the actors and undefined narrative that leaves you feeling a variety of different emotions. In classic American suburbia, five angelic, untouchable sisters are the object of every neighbourhood boy's yearning affection, and blooming lust. Ruled over by a fanatically conservative mother (Kathleen Turner), and a repressed father (James Woods cast excellently against type as a feeble, twisted man), the sisters find their blossoming womanhood hindered by their mother and father, resulting in a confusing, stunted coming of age that only ends in tragedy. What a beautiful, intoxicating tragedy it is though. The oldest of the girls (Kirsten Dunst), becomes entranced by boyish hunk Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett), and from there events spiral downward. The cast is top notch, Dunst shows uncanny maturity, Woods is tragically pathetic, and Turner is a force of misguided religious fury. There are perfect cameos from Scott Glenn, Danny Devitio, and Michael Parè as well. It's a hard movie to describe in words, let alone a review, but if you watch it, think of it as a free form musical, visual essay on what it means to be young and influenced by your environment as you come into your own, and whether that effects you negatively, positively, or downright disastrously, as illustrated here.

A beautifully depressing and sad movie about 5 sisters, who ended their lives at a very young age. The movie has an interesting way of telling a story, the story is told by the boys who loved the girls, but unfortunately the movie feels kind of cold. It is very hard to emotionally engage in the movie, since you never really get any real and emotional character interaction, it never really showed any of the girls communicating with one another.Just 2 of the sisters had their time under the spotlight, for most of the movie, and that, in my opinion, destroyed the real lust and emotions the movie could have had. I wanted to see more character engagement in the film, i get that the idea was to make you feel sad and emotional via the lenghty sad fragments of the girls dieing of boredom, being oppressed by their religious parents, but at least they could have made them talk with each other.When you look at the movie as a whole, it was a really good movie, but then, when you start thinking about some of the details, which i mentioned above, the movie kind of loses its charm and just seems blatant and plain, so it is better to just enjoy it, without trying to figure out the details and flaws of the film.