The Virgin Suicides(2000)- User Reviews

This film can be construed primarily as a vouyeristic look into the life of the Lisbon daughters by the neighbor boys. Another underlying theme is that of coming of age and dealing with sexuality in the Lisbon daughters and again the boys.

The story is told from the point of the boys as the peer into the Lisbon girls lives trying to make a clear understanding of what is happening to them. The boys collect items that the girls have left or sent to the boys. From that they try to peice together what is going on in the minds of the girls and eventually leads them to suicide.

What leads them to suicide is often believed to be the pressure that their mother, and their father somewhat, places on them. This pressure constricts the girls in a time where they are just beginning to develop into the maturity, sexually specifically. The girls are trapped between their sexual urges and desires and the strict tyranical rule of their parents. This then causes problems to arise in their minds that eventually leads to their suicidal actions. Their own deaths are almost a fetish for them in that they invite the boys over, allegedly to escape, but what ends up to being to witness/find the girls dead. The boys aren't invited over for the affect that it will have on the boys, but because of the desire of the girls.