In a small patch of America where the people are closed into their mental and material sluggishness and where some troubled adolescents are unwilling to accept their imaginary imprisonment a shadow of uneasiness finds its way among patches of thick darkness where all kinds of interpersonal relationships are inhibited. Two young girls put aside every improper form of rebellion and trigger a mechanism based on the creative power of the gaze intended as usual means of observation, taking advantage of the slightest occasions to climb the fences of intolerance and anonymity to confirm their unacknowledged existence.
But the dull Ghost World which has become a symbol of the decadence of American culture and more generally of the entire Western civilization hasn't got the capacity to change the strength of the human consciences. So, it goes on prospering in his stagnant anonymity amid the general indifference while the visionary minds of some nostalgic people are completely marginalized by a world that confuses Fellini's "Eight and a half " with Lyne's "Nine and a half weeks". and the voices of old 78 speed records seem to echo the ghosts of an era and The movie is about the difficulty of dealing with a world that has really fallen out of tune; the dialogues have the flavor of dialogue balloons expressed in a direct and explicit language even if not foul-mouthed, the language of the adolescence who is looking for its individual values, in close contact with an excerpt of humanity anesthetized by strong doses of daily pettiness and unable to seize the slightest positive change but following stubbornly a customary provincial ritual properly stored into the code of a sort of stale mental microchip.
"Ghost world" is a bitter comedy that makes us think, completely stripped from frills and various paraphernalia, bluntly addressed to the heart of a problem far from insoluble because in the end even a long wait for a deleted bus route deleted can lead to positive consequences. Adapted from a underground comic book by Daniel Clowes, the film keeps the blaze of colors comics accentuated by the brilliance of the photography, a legacy which carries as consequence a series of short sequences throughout the whole narrative. Be as it may Ghost World proves once again that comics shouldn't be considered in any way a replacement for artistic discipline subordinate to other higher forms of expression of human creativity because they have a particular autonomous capacity of production of reality thank to their original and exclusive language. And this time the movie gives us the opportunity to take two birds with one stone: precisely the American Beauty Thora Birch and the glamorous Scarlett Johansson, one of my favorite actresses. And the nearly two hours in length of the film aren't certainly to be considered "lost in translation!"
But the dull Ghost World which has become a symbol of the decadence of American culture and more generally of the entire Western civilization hasn't got the capacity to change the strength of the human consciences. So, it goes on prospering in his stagnant anonymity amid the general indifference while the visionary minds of some nostalgic people are completely marginalized by a world that confuses Fellini's "Eight and a half " with Lyne's "Nine and a half weeks". and the voices of old 78 speed records seem to echo the ghosts of an era and The movie is about the difficulty of dealing with a world that has really fallen out of tune; the dialogues have the flavor of dialogue balloons expressed in a direct and explicit language even if not foul-mouthed, the language of the adolescence who is looking for its individual values, in close contact with an excerpt of humanity anesthetized by strong doses of daily pettiness and unable to seize the slightest positive change but following stubbornly a customary provincial ritual properly stored into the code of a sort of stale mental microchip.
"Ghost world" is a bitter comedy that makes us think, completely stripped from frills and various paraphernalia, bluntly addressed to the heart of a problem far from insoluble because in the end even a long wait for a deleted bus route deleted can lead to positive consequences. Adapted from a underground comic book by Daniel Clowes, the film keeps the blaze of colors comics accentuated by the brilliance of the photography, a legacy which carries as consequence a series of short sequences throughout the whole narrative. Be as it may Ghost World proves once again that comics shouldn't be considered in any way a replacement for artistic discipline subordinate to other higher forms of expression of human creativity because they have a particular autonomous capacity of production of reality thank to their original and exclusive language. And this time the movie gives us the opportunity to take two birds with one stone: precisely the American Beauty Thora Birch and the glamorous Scarlett Johansson, one of my favorite actresses. And the nearly two hours in length of the film aren't certainly to be considered "lost in translation!"