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In Reply to: The Virgin Suicides (spoiler warning?) posted by Stephen Hayes on December 20, 2000 at 09:21:22:
Just watched this movie last night and thought it was excellent. Taking into consideration the era (mid to late 70's) I think it's a little tough to call the parents "abusive"; they were pretty warped, but probably less so than mine. I never got the impression that they didn't love their daughters, although the mother's way of dealing with things by forbidding the kids to leave the house was pretty sad (abusive probably applies here). My take is that the mother was totally screwed up and ended up passing on all this crap to the kids, but that is a pretty common family theme I would say (fathers are quite capable of this too). For me the ending was appropriate; there are a lot of difficult and unanswered questions in all our lives-a lot of grey area, if you will, where you simply cannot say that this is the cause and this is the effect. As the parent of 5 & 8 year olds, I realize that I have a huge effect on their lives (hopefully positive), but that doesn't mean I can make their lives perfect; there's going to be a lot to happen to them that I have very little control over. I thought it was quite interesting and pretty stylized; not the usual Hollywood stuff.
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