You can take your Juno, your Scott Pilgrim, even your Heathers, and chuck them in a skip, because Ghost World just does it all so much better. Well, all of it that's worth doing. I'm beginning to think this melancholy, bitingly hilarious crystallisation of teen ennui might be the only film I'll ever really need.

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A movie that SPEAKS to me. Two characters that I can relate to and understand. As a recent high school graduate (where I felt like an outcast), I can connect with the hilarious ennui of the two main characters.

86/100

There's a departed wasteland festering beneath the 2000's that existed, and arguably continues to exist, as an anxious consumerist repercussion to a preceding century that reads like a cluttered fiasco in double-time. Maybe we live in aimless debris, though "Ghost World" feels refreshing and hopeful through its authentically depressive modernity. Maybe we never 'come of age', but we can break the cycle of tedium that pressures us into insincerity and cynicism. Zwigoff's adolescent masterpiece is a product of its time in a manner that doesn't feel rotten down the road. It's borderline contemporary perfection.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

‘Ghost World’, basado en los cómics de Daniel Clowes, es como si Daria recibiera un relámpago de la vida real. Nuestra protagonista, Enid, no es una amable ni carismática adolescente sino una chica que no sabe cómo tomar los cambios a su alrededor (como que su mejor amiga Rebecca insiste que busque un trabajo y organice su vida para mudarse juntas o como los hombres rechazan su actitud mordaz y cínica). Enid, después de una cruel broma, conoce a Seymour, un hombre terriblemente solitario.
‘Ghost World’ es un maravilloso retrato de estas almas perdidas que buscan conectar en un mundo que no los entiende. Dirigida por Terry Zwigoff, quien también dirigió el gran documental ‘Crumb’ y aquí hasta busca manera de rendir homenaje al maestro con el personaje de Seymour, esta es una joyita de principio de siglo. Muy recomendable.

7.5/10

Great character studies, as I liked the dynamics between all of people in the movie. Very melancholic, finds comedy within mundane and routine life.

The deadpan teen angst comedy works more often than it doesn't. The writing is quite funny, and the characters are perfectly cast.

the opening / closing musical number was good...
the rest... feh!

stray thoughts:

I haven't watched this since I was in like fifth grade and I wonder how much of my taste in women was due to an early childhood love for this, daria, and janeane garofalo

I related to both enid and seymour in equal measure this time

For some reason this made me feel so incredibly lonely tbh and now I have that painful feeling in my gut because of it

I can see why Ghost World has a cult following because this is a movie you'll either love or you'll hate. Being a fan of Terry Zwigoff's Crumb (which is another film that isn't for everybody) I was delighted to see Ghost World and I was not let down. I relate to a lot of the characters in this film. The general disdain Enid and Rebecca have for mainstream culture and the loneliness and despair of Seymour. Everything about this film is my style. The characters have layers and seem very real. I love the humor, which can easily be lost on some people. It's a cult classic for a reason, it's a great movie.