film review
The Virgin Suicides
The neighbourhood boys spend the whole of their lives on the hagiography of five sisters they never once actually knew. Sofia Coppola’s entire argument resides in the gauze: you are watching girls refashioned into a memory by people who only ever looked.
what it left me with
To be adored from a distance is not remotely the same thing as being known at close range; mythology is merely the prettier word for going unseen.
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