The Virgin Suicides

Hmmm.....this movie sure had me gripped for its entire runtime (should I say another great recommendation from Sush!!), and it surely was due to its great direction and story, welll...perhaps also due to Kirsten Dunst and the other sisters, but that is a different matter altogether. The theme is haunting at times, when the girls are kept under a house-arrest by their over-protective mother. It seemed so inhuman to do so. I am ready to shoot Mrs. Lisbon as soon as I meet her face-to-face. Perhaps the perfect ending would have been for Mrs. Lisbon to commit suicide herself ( I was actually surprised she didn't !!) but I guess that would have been too bollywood-like. Never mind the ending, I believe the movie had another nasty villain-like character: Trip (Dunst's boyfriend). He was so afraid of the situation ( a night-out on the football field) that he left her to handle it on her own...now how insensitive was that !! Anyways, the movie has left a lot to be decided by the viewers, why did the girls call on the boys the night they decided to end their life...why did it all happen when they had finally established a connection with the outside world (the phone calls and stuff). And the puzzle pieces need a lot of time to be fitted together before these questions are answered. Perhaps I wasn't that influenced by the movie that I look into these pieces, however it still deserves an 8.5 out of 10 for the originality of the story and the character played by Kirsten (she looked absolutely stunning throughout !!)