Suxing’s analysis of virgin suicide
“You have not been around girl, you are not old enough to know what tragedy there is in life.” “Obliviously doctor you never been a 13-year-old girl.” After watching "Virgin Suicides" this conversation between doctor and first suicide girl Cecilia is the deepest image of mine. We all been teenager, do you still remember the period during adolescent? "Virgin Suicides" may fresh the memory of you.
Introduction
"Virgin Suicides" is a film talking about adolescent men and women. It directed by women director Sofia Coppla, this film is for her virgin. She is also the screen-writer, actress and producer. (From reference)She was the third female film director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. (From reference) Film is base on novel; the fiction writer is Jeffrey Eugenides. The whole film takes 97 minutes.
Brief summary
The Virgin suicides is a beautiful story about five sisters, and their mysterious existence, told in the words of the neighborhood boys who worshiped them and who come together 20 years later to try and solve the mystery of the Lisbon sisters. (From reference) It is a solitary story of the girls isolation and the sleepy portrayal of how they watched powerless as their fragile lives disappeared(From reference). Whole story happen at a small town in the Midwest, the time is about 1970s. Lisbon family the father, Ronald, is a math teacher at the local high school and the mother is a homemaker(From reference). They’ve got 13-year-old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese (from reference)
Theme 1-Analysis
Talk about first suicide girl Cecilia. Five daughters the youngest only 13 years old Cecilia has already lost faith in life, for many times she wants to commit suicide, same like other adolescent girls, Cecilia love fantasy but maybe too much, as the evaluation of the boys to her "do not know what she was thinking, she was living in her own world" It’s true Cecilia always living in her world, she against real life, she has her own ideas about life but it seems still childish, she is extremely vulnerable and fragile, like the other four girls, but to the youngest girl Cecilia she seems more sensitive than others. She’s too fragile to across the threshold of puberty. She committed suicide in the bathroom holding Jesus’ card in her hand, I think she wanted to escape from real life to a better world she thinks. But she did not succeed. The doctor saves her. The doctor explained to Cecilia’s parents that "Cecilia did not want to commit suicide, she just wanted to arouse the attention of her family, nothing more." Doctors believe will be fine if Cecilia spends more time to contact with heterosexual, but it is the real fact? Maybe not like that simple. Parents began to organize opportunities for five daughters to contact with boy, but Cecilia is still depression, still can’t get out of her own world. At one night, she has chosen to jump off the beyond to end of her shot life. So in there, director by using the character Cecilia’s death to change the plot of the whole movie,. Youngest daughter died for this family is a huge blow,so their dogmatic and conservative parents began to do more severe discipline to the other four girls.

Theme 2-Analysis
Talk bout other 4 adolescent girls who actually get suicide at last. The most gorgeous girl among their 4 daughters is our hero Lux, she is the main character of this movie and she drives the plot. The opening shot of this film is to use close-up shot to present her beauty. Lux’s beautiful face comes for a long time in the air appears dull, fuzzy image. Detractor wants use this shot show us, it actually not a very real story, it’s the memory from the boys who are the neighbor of Lisbon family. This movie is their memory so the story is not very true, just likes Lux's face in the sky, like blurred. At the middle of the film, Lux’s boyfriend leave her, after that Lux begin to indulge her disposition casually, although she was locked at home by parents, she still deliberately smoking on the beyond at midnight to look sultry, because she knows the boys in voyeurism, she would like it to lure them. After the Lux’s lure, 5 boys escape from girl's parents, secretly go to Lux's home. When they came to the room the girl was found suicide in addition to Lux, 5 boys fled in panic. Lux's body was also found in a car next day. Five young girls commit suicide one after another, no one can understand.
Whole story is very simple, there is no soul-stirring thing in this movie, just telling the story of 5 girls go to suicide step by step. But it left a question to the audience, five young and beautiful girls why they so extreme to choose suicide? The film does not directly tell the audience so we need to think. Adolescent men and women, hormones are very strong normally encourage them to become fidget or depression. People in this period are usually more sensitive at the same time they are more vulnerable. For naturally, girls even more sensitive, they are more like fantasies in adolescence, they are very fragile and prone to depression. Because Lisbon’s five daughters’ natural character plus inappropriate parental guidance, the symptoms of puberty is more obvious in these 5 girls. At last, they kill themselves, maybe they want to use in this way to protest their parents’ self-righteousness. Perhaps no one can understand the idea of these 4 adolescent girls. We can only guess, as to the real cause of the girls’ suicide, we are hard to say. Adolescent girls may have same feeling like five girls in the movie.Maybe only them can figure the 5 girls out.

Theme 3-Analysis
Talk about Lisbon family. Surface, Lisbon family has an enviable, excellent family environment, coupled with five beautiful daughters. The main action of the first 5 minutes of the movie is staffs are examining the tree and prepare to cut it. It introduces the tree in front of Lisbon’s villa already necrosis, it seems like not very important but why the film spends long time to present this necrosis tree to audience? Surface, It shows the appearance of tree is tall and lush while the inside of the tree already necrosis. But the main goal of the movie is want to tell the audience this tree is just like Lisbon’s family, the appearance Lisbon’s family is a happy family, in fact Lisbon’s family already appeared crisis which is very difficult to resolve.

Theme 4-Analysis
Talk about girls’ parents. How can the 4 adolescent girls to accept such strict parents care? In the process of 4 girls make friends with boys, beautiful Lux caused the attention of the school's heartthrob, he began to pursue Lux, pay many attentions to her, he ultimate success of Seek the Lux. They go to the party together. They attract each other. At end of the night after ball they have sex on the playground. Lux did not come home one night caused her mother’s angry. She locks Lux and the other three daughters at home. Meanwhile, Lux’s boyfriend abandoned Lux. Mother forced her to burn her favorite album. How bad they did to their children? They think they've done good things for their children. But is that really good to lock four daughters at home? The outside world for them is completely unable to see. They only can rely on the music through phone to warm their injuries hearts. They think that in this way their children are very safe. But the girls are getting weird, also caused fantasy of their own genes, they become very depressed, they can only be cranky all day. Their parents isolated them let them be even more extreme and fragile. Stubborn parents are not have very good communication with them, cannot truly understand their own daughters. I thought the parents’ wrong guidance is the main reason cause the tragedy. Their care and love is too extreme, girls cannot accept their parent’s education. But the stubborn parents still disapproval, they think they do the right thing to their children and even at last the stubborn mother still saying "children should be happy, how safe to stay at home. What is so bad?" Her mother still cannot understand until she loses her 5 daughters.

Theme 5-Analysis
Talk about director and cinematographer. Director Sofia Coppla her first try is great, we cannot image how this film will be if they use a male director. She make this film seems very feminine and that what we want to see, cause this movie is about the story of 5 girls. She detailed description of the adolescent girls.
All the audience got a weird feeling for a long time after girl’s suicide. We unable extricate ourselves from the movie. One of the successes in this movie is manufacturing a kind of strange atmosphere of depression, breathless. Cinematographer create the proper atmosphere for the film, they using a lot of yellow, blue lights to help describe the depress feeling of the 5 girls. They use many close-up shots to show emotion, like they usually shot Lux’s face. Also lots of long shots to describe the environment of place which whole story happen. Using some slow motion to present girls’ fidget and depression. They use some extreme close-up shots to present the adolescent girls’ beautiful.

I believe the main goal of this film is to warn all of us audience to concern about the adolescent young men and women, parents need to communicate with them, give them more understanding and helping to avoid tragedy.
Like "Virgin Suicides" movie, like the yellow images. she was the memory of 5 boys, also the memories of youth from each of us. it is sad but very beautiful.