Monday, February 11, 2002

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.