Virgin Suicides is a film written and directed by Soffia Coppola
based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. The story is narrated
by a few guys looking back into the 70's when a family had lost all
five of their daughters to suicide. It's this narration that really
makes the story interesting. Such a plot you would expect to be stuffed
with teen super drama, after all the movie makes no attempt to hide it's
ending. But unexpectedly, the film maintains a light humor
throughout, with interesting scenes like the girls showing the youngest

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daughter Cecilia how to hide her slit wrists with plastic bracelets or an
odd father, played by James Wood, talking to a plant. The question
you want to see answered is why will they do it and Coppola plays
with this need to understand. For the most part the daughters are
flat characters waiting to be brought out. After the early death
of Cecilia and an incident with Luxe, the girls are locked up
and there becomes a desire by these boys to bring them out.
Excluding certain moments with Luxe, the girls were generally
portrayed as a group. The few times a Lisbon daughter would speak
would become rich moments of looking into individuals personities.

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It lends itself to this perspective, of these boys obsessive with
understanding these girls; even many years after their death not
coming close to knowing why.