The Virgin Suicides

First: I love Sofia Coppola.

I had long avoided this movie, because of my well-publicized inability to watch hard movies about children. While this movie -- not a spoiler -- obviously revolves around the suicides of five sisters, its focus is much more on the effects their lives had on a group of boys their age. And on the feeling of the age.

Also, this: Kirsten Dunst, she's amazing.

Each of the five of the girls in this movie is less a person than she is the sense of a teenage girl. Coppola perfectly captures the egotism teenagers have. The characters -- the boys in the group, and the five sisters -- each see the world revolving around themselves. They bump into the other characters, they act as catalysts, but the central action to each character is what happens to that character.

I'm not really doing a good job of explaining what happens, but I'll just say this: You should see this movie. It's great film, and it's fun to watch. Except for that whole suicide thing. That part sucks.