Re: Virgin Suicides

[Guest guest]

Saw an interesting little movie by sophia Copola, Francis’ twenty something

daughter.

“Virgin Suicides” was about five very pretty blond girls who were sort of

born out of nowhere in the Midwest. Because of the multiple repetition of

their birth, I guess, they were noticed as different and thus became

idolized by the community, especially by adolescent boys.

The symbolism was awesome. These teenage girls represented the princess or

spiritual wife that all men desire but can never bring to earth. They were

thus idolized and never treated as human. The girls killed themselves and

thereby remained objects of idolization and wonder forever.

I guessed the girls killed themselves for a couple of reasons. First, they

felt lonely and empty that they could never be treated like regular women of

the earth like everybody else. Secondly, the movie brought up a point that I

made a while back, and Alice commented about. It seems almost as if when a

person is dealt a persona that is perfect for others’ use as an object for

an ideal archetype, that person often can not shed the persona to become

real. Fate somehow seems to obligate the person to remain an object, which

requires that they kill themselves for preservation of that ideal. I gave

before the examples of ; Marilyn; ; Elvis; Dean; Janis;

and the Greatest, Ali, who died but still lived. I guess you would also have

to toss Jesus into the group if such a man actually lived, which I think has

been pretty much proved that he did.

I could cite a bunch of absolutely marvelous symbols that were employed in

the movie – and will if anybody wants to talk about it. It was one of those

movies that I would have given almost anything to have created myself. I

would love it if someone with a greater understanding of Jungian psychology

than I could shed some analytical light on the film. I told my wife that I

would ask this esteemed group. Thanks.

Cov