ArmandoManuelPereira Review of Ghost World

Ghost World (2001)

Quirky At First, And Then It Deepens Nicely In the Second Half

[7/10 · 5 May 2020]

At first you are tempted to believe that Ghost World is simply a quirky comedy about 2 high-school girls. But as the movie progresses past its half way point, it begins to deepen, and you realize that its main character (Enid) is going through a painful stretching of mind and heart, which opens up some profound insights into the tension between idealism and reality. All the leads are good, though its hard sometimes for me to accrpt Buscemis typical shtick. Still, he's pretty good in this. At first I thought the ending was a little wrong, and should have quit with the old man boarding the bus. But afterwards it occurred to me that their is actually something strange and almost mystical about it.