Ghost World

It's going to take more than just one viewing to be able to pull all of this movie together. But that's a pretty general sort of situation. Most movies with several themes and layers need to be viewed more than once, because, if propperly assembled, the ultimate impact of the themes and symbols isn't known until the end of the movie. Even in cases like American Beauty where the ending is revealed at the very beginning, the scope of the director's intent isn't in focus until the end. such ios the case with Ghost World. The plot is almost hidden, along with the themes and symbols, behind the happenings. What you see is a series of sequential scenes that don't start forming a big picture until the end. The majority of attention, I found, is spent absorbing the story and actual happenings on the first pass. Gathering the details that are needed to piece together an image of the "message."

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