This movie portrays the male gaze in a way I have never seen done before. I could talk about this movie with someone for hours. All the little hints the writers drop pull everything together. I mean at the beginning of the movie when the girls were getting out of the car and they each had a scene where there names were printed in different fonts and colors for all the girls was just one of the small ways the writers were trying to portray this image that all those beautiful girls were there own people. They weren't just the lisbon sisters, they were Lux, Bonnie, Mary, Cecilia, and Therese. They were 5 individual and deep characters the boys never even took the chance to learn about. The girls were so desperate for the boys to see them for their personalities they did the last thing that could signify a difference in them and that was literally to kill themselves all in different ways from each other.
This story is so heartbreaking and raw. It deserves so many awards.
This story is so heartbreaking and raw. It deserves so many awards.