Monday, 8 September 2014

Virgin Suicides


Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
1999
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Drama
Director:
Sofia COPPOLA…
Outstanding Performances:
Giovanni RIBISI… Kathleen TURNER… James WOODS…
Premiss:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Themes:
Alienation | Loneliness | Sexual Repression | White culture
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Carrie (1976)…
Review Format:
DVD

Why Do Whites Kill Themselves More than Anyone Else?

Hardly surprising Whites have such high global suicide rates (given their emotional repression & lack of a positive inner life), but this is a fairly-amusing drama, albeit one about people you cannot imagine warming-to in real life.

The characterization never explains the lack of character in the characters - and no explanation for either their characterlessness nor the White fear of sexual intercourse. The wonder is that the film was made at all, since it offers so little in the way of satisfying drama.


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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.