GHOST WORLD could have been so much more than it is; quite a disappointment.
Enid and Rebecca are disaffected young ladies facing (or not facing) life after high school graduation (or near-graduation). Quietly superior to the strip mall folk around them, they sit through life sort of enjoying kitsch and irony. Fine.
The movie fails because it centers on Enid, who so stubbornly remains detatched that she can't even engage with those she wants to engage with: she can't follow through on a crush and instead terrorizes her object of affection; she can't commit to as simple a dream as sharing an apartment with her best friend; and the man whom she calls her hero she ignores as soon as she beds him.
The problem is that the film remains almost as detatched as Enid, who eventually drifts off into her ghost world of non-commital. There's a terrific film of great humor and pathos to be mined from this subject; GHOST WORLD, however, is not that film.
Enid and Rebecca are disaffected young ladies facing (or not facing) life after high school graduation (or near-graduation). Quietly superior to the strip mall folk around them, they sit through life sort of enjoying kitsch and irony. Fine.
The movie fails because it centers on Enid, who so stubbornly remains detatched that she can't even engage with those she wants to engage with: she can't follow through on a crush and instead terrorizes her object of affection; she can't commit to as simple a dream as sharing an apartment with her best friend; and the man whom she calls her hero she ignores as soon as she beds him.
The problem is that the film remains almost as detatched as Enid, who eventually drifts off into her ghost world of non-commital. There's a terrific film of great humor and pathos to be mined from this subject; GHOST WORLD, however, is not that film.