The Virgin Suicides

#virginsuicides

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"Cecilia was the first to go." She appears drowned in a bathtub. (0:01)

"Everyone dates the demise of our neighborhood to the suicides of the Lisbon girls." (0:02)

"Everyone had an opinion as to why Cecilia tried to kill herself." (0:04)

Dominic jumps off the roof of his relatives' house. He gets up and walks away unharmed. (0:05)

Psychiatrist E. M. Horniker, MD, PHD tells Cecilia, "I'm gonna show you some images, and you tell me what they remind you of." He administers the Rorschach.
Cecilia's wrists are bandaged.
Dr. Horniker tells her parents, "I don't think that Cecilia truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help." (0:05)

Her sister Therese tapes bracelets over the bandages on Cecilia's wrists. (0:11)

Cecilia has jumped, impaling self on iron fence. Her father Ronald holds her lifeless body. (0:17)

A cemetery, funeral procession. (0:18)

Television reporter Lydia Perl asks Cecilia's sisters, "Did she ever talk about ending her life?"
She reports on television, "The suicide of a teenager... tragically put an end to her life. (0:27)

Tim imagines he sees Cecelia talking to him from the foot of his bed. Chase imagines he sees her watching him from a tree. (0:30)

An assembly speaker tells the students she has been "Reading about the alarming suicide rate..." (0:33)

Narrator: "The green pamphlets told us there were 80 suicides a day in America..." (0:33)

Trip smokes a joint in a car: "He went out to his car to smoke the marijuana..." (0:36)

Trip smoking a joint: "Kevin Head... had the killer weed." (0:50)

A nurse tells adult Trip, apparently in a psychiatric hospital, "Time for your 6 o'clock group meeting." (1:06)

Lydia on television refers to Cecilia, "whose suicide last summer..." (1:13)

The four boys enter the Lisbon house to find a sister apparently hanging by her neck. Another lies on floor.
"Mary put her head in the oven... Therese, stuffed with sleeping pills, was gone by the time we got there. Lux was the last to go." Her lifeless arm hangs from the window of the running car in the closed garage.

Lydia and others report the suicides on television. (1:23)

"After the suicide free-for-all Mr and Mrs Lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life." (1:26)

"It was... over a year from the time Cecelia had slit her wrists." (1:27)

Bereavement | hallucination | joint | psychiatrist | Hermann Rorschach | suicide

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