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The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides comes from a novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed this filmed in 1999. The story sets in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers around the suicides of five sisters. This film also expressed the family feelings contradiction in deep danger with black comedy special form. One that is all too common in today’s society and that is, suicide. To determine whether the present life has any value to one self, that is the most noble philosophical perspective. However, more often than not, our lives and thinking are not only based on independent thinking, and self, but also moulded upon by the impact of the environment and influences around us. Youth is the most brutal as it is the most impressionable and testing stage of life. When you are still young and inexperienced in life, you brain is malleable to all your surroundings. Therefore, it is necessary to gradually adapt to the complex social networks and standards of today’s society. When you can not rationally determine the value of existence due to poor surrounding influences or due to lack of direction and teaching, you are more likely to give up on life when encountering problems and obstacles that otherwise would have been thought routine by others.Then are we to blame in playing a part in this trend?

Daughter's death opened the prelude to the tragedy. One of the contributing factors and one of the societal issues raised here is the parents’ educational and disciplinary methods which are considered more old-fashioned by today’s standards. Perhaps the way we have disciplined children for so long has created a new generation thinking failure will result in punishment and pain. This is reiterated in the Western education system where children who broke the rules or failed to comply were either punished by physical or mental means. This way, our children learn that in society it is the norm to experience pain after failure. Failure to recognize and address this problem means that the next generation will grow into adults maintaining that frame of mind which may interfere with social interactions, professional development and personal relationships. Additionally these ideas will be taught and imposed on the next generation.

There are also numerous differences between Eastern and Western societies. Behaviors exhibited by the citizens are formed according to a specific set of cultural ideals and characteristics. The Eastern approach to education is that based largely on discipline and repetition. The student is inferior to the teacher and the teacher’s word is irrefutable. Punishment is severe and often involves bring shame to the pupil.

Lisbon was perhaps difficult to understand the tragedy at home, we would have to bite the bullet to understand the significance of how much alive.
But more common is youth, budding love, sex appeal, shy and impulses, we are all grown up this way. I also had wanted the excitement of the night call bolted, there have been secret voyeuristic desires and cover up the shame of germinating, had their own good years, some passing, and some are going through. Alternating day and night to see the Lisbon home, Four Seasons circulation that lens, I feel my life is so much turnover in the heart has been years, but have forgotten how many people know, those left in the hearts of people the location where they are now. The value of the life I have been thinking, although I still do not understand the meaning of existence,But I still welcome the existence of continuity.

In Sofia Coppola's debut, she talks about pressure and how it is the driving force in many people’s lives. The unbearable pressure some people experience whether it be at work, at home or within relationships is what often pushes people over the edge. Inflorescence old Coppola, who is also producer extol her daughter, mother deep concern from the perspective of the family his daughter, we can also think of how much growth after this story, after all, this is the deep personal experience of giving Sofia work. Each child has its own experience growing up, Each girl has had that unforgettable period of 13 years, unlike the existence of these memories will be how to continue.

As a female director, Coppola directed at a time when the topic of self preservation and the things that go against that is sensitive and relatively unexplored. Her debut also showed an innovative style which countered the traditional. The cinematography was full of imagination, including the use of light, the depth of field, and the stable images which were transitioned in harmony. In the film, the actor’s life experiences can be compared to the style of the whole film which encompassed the spirit of the youth and a sense of growth and flourishing and the film progressed.

Although the theme of ‘The Virgin Suicides’ is of a more depressing nature, it also depicts a more deep and meaningful side of youth, that is, what it is like to grow up in anguish and solace. In the movie, the story is told from the perspectives of four boys who grew up around the events involving the Lisbon sisters. Through all the numerous things that happen in the story involving the girls, the boys grow up unknowingly and become men. Through this movie, we see how the youth of today grows up being heavily influenced by the people and the events around them. And unknowingly, they become shaped by society today into adults who will be permanently engrained by those events and influences which may or may not affect their behavior and life choices thereafter.