Like Girl, Interrupted, the following films tackle mental illness, coming of age in a hostile world, and the allure of dangerous figures like Jolie's Lisa.
How Sofia Coppola Uses Color in The Virgin Suicides We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.
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Color Code series, Luke Hicks chooses a handful of shots from a favorite film in order to draw out the meaning behind certain colors and how they play into both the scene and the film as a whole. For his sixth entry, he digs into Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides.
Cecilia – 13, the youngest of the five Lisbon sisters and the first to go – was always the least concerned with maintaining the artifice of the girls’ picturesque 1970s suburban life. She had a preternatural sense for the rot beneath the surface. Post-mortem in the image above, she lays across the tree like she’s one with it, a piece of the Earth now, verdant green moss emanating from the dark wood around her. Life springs forth from death. She wears the same unimpressed look she wore the night she ask