Why? :: Art

Why?After seeing the film The Virgin Suicides, I found myself asking the question why. While talking to other students almost the film once again came the question, why? Why would these girls, with so much to look forward to, commit suicide? This question, why is the central theme of the whole film. interview many opinions on the film, I asked myself, what was the most disturbing aspect of this film? Focusing on the subtly disturbing manner in which the film is told and again asking why. I came to the conclusion that the most disturbing part of this film isnt so much the girls committing suicide, but the fact that we dont receive why they do it. Like the boys across the street, we are not content with what happens, we feel cheated, like its all a dread inside joke and we just dont get the punch line. The first time the boys go into the menage, they look around as if they were in the house of a dead idol, like the smaller pieces of the girls lives are going to tell them almostth ing they havent yet considered. The way they steal Cecilias diary and try to imagine what the girls were thinking. The way they sit with the telescope pointed at the roof across the street, watching like confused children, which essentially is what they were. These are some of the more obvious voyeuristic scenes, but there are so many more. The film could almost be a beginners guide to stalking. All the boys were ghost with the Lisbon girls. They wanted to know what they were doing, where they were, who they were, and most of all, why. The one time Lux let one of the boys get close enough to answer some of these questions, he momentarily looses interest and leaves her at the football field. Which poses the question, were the boys fascinated with these girls because they were unique and interesting, or did they only want what they couldnt have, the forbidden fruit. The bars of isolation put firmly into place by the Lisbon mother is what creates this aura of mystery around these gir ls. Her strict enforcement of the conservative lifestyle only adds fuel to the girls parvenue found sexual fire. Like the boys, the girls only want to discover the unknown. And for the Lisbons, the unknown is the opposite sex.