194. The Virgin Suicides with special guest Espie Quintero - a podcast by Scott and Pete
from 2023-06-02T04:00
"Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen year old girl." We watched The Virgin Suicides (1999) with our friend Espie Quintero and we all want to live in a world directed by Sofia Coppola. We can't help but fall in love with the gauzy soft-focus, the spot-on '70s soundtrack and the ethereal songs by Air punctuating every scene. Something about the way the sunlight trickles through the trees and even the suburban French provincial decorating schemes makes us want to inhabit this world. We might even be ok with being left alone on the football field to get a chance at Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett). Looking back at this film from the "greatest movie year ever" the subject matter is a little dark but Espie guides us through this important film about women that was written and directed by a woman in a way our peanut-sized male brains couldn't possibly articulate. We examine the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine that permeates this movie as well as what forces brought us, as young gays, to identify so much with these five tragic female characters. We also give Kirsten Dunst her flowers for yet another example of a classic film not quite celebrated in its time, but has gone on to live a life of cult cinema status.
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