Ghost World

Ghost World is a beautiful evocation of the ghostly nature of love, loss, and ultimately memory itself.

I wanted to hug this movie. It takes such a risky journey and never steps wrong. It creates specific, original, believable, lovable characters, and meanders with them through their inconsolable days, never losing its sense of humor.

Pitch-perfect -- not just the most enjoyable movie of the year but the first (after Crumb) to get the tone of a certain strain of "underground" comic right.

Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.

There's a loneliness at the heart of this world, and Ghost World, that's really touching -- and a bit scary, too.

Ghost World is above all a disquieting consciousness-raiser.

In his first fiction feature, Zwigoff doesn't forget to bring the funny. But he doesn't bring enough poetry.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

what does really this movie want to say? i don't understand. i think this high rating was because of ambiguity of the movie. they did not understand and thought that it is so strong.

Ghost World is just exasperatingly dull. It has moments of comedy. It has moments of poignancy. However, these moments get drowned out in this deadbeat teenage girl hating the world and hating everybody around her while learning nothing about life and instead just deciding to leave everything behind. There are no character arcs here for our main character who is an immature obnoxious **** to begin with and is an immature obnoxious **** when it ends. The film really can be relatable at times when it comes to touching on issues with growing up and finishing high school, as well as providing some seriously funny moments (especially when discussing art or film). Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi, are all good here, but the film is poorly paced and suffers immensely from crafting a deeply unlikable main character.

If the central character is supposed to be sympathetic, I don't get it. She's an annoying, self-absorbed brat possessed of an undeserved case of ennui. Scarlett Johansson is also surprisingly uninteresting, leaving very little to focus on. The only (mildly) interesting moments in the film involved minor characters. Definitely a movie only another self-absorbed teenager could love. Unless you have a very high threshold for boredom, skip it

Qu’est-ce que c’est que ce putain de truc ?… une sorte de pièce de théâtre dans laquelle on s’endort très vite : tenter de regarder ça en entier tient de la gageure ! malgré bien sûr un beau duo, la brune et la blonde, oui, oui… (deux fois oui, également bien pourvues toutes les deux). L’un d’elles deviendra une star, évidemment. Mais là, on ne le savait pas. Parce que là, Scarlett fait une sorte d’oie blanche, une bécasse bêbête… elle fait la paire avec sa copine qui pourrait faire la truie, enfin, juste un peu (n’exagérons rien). En tout cas, c’est bel et bien un fantôme de film, même pas un film, en fait, non, non. C’est du rien, du rien du tout. Un courant d’air à peine bruyant. Ou alors (au mieux) ça tente de meubler avec des dialogues ineptes et des situations à peine dignes de la situation comedy typique, genre immondément ultra débilo-crétin arriéré qui sévit à la télé américaine mais aussi chez nous… et partout en effet. Pour le peuple. Et donc, il manque les rires enregistrés en fait. Mais quand bien même… quelle plaie, quelle misère de film misérable ! c’en est particulièrement affligeant et navrant. Et pitoyable également.