Ghost World
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ghost World |
| Original title | Ghost World |
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| Country of production | USA , UK , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Terry Zwigoff |
| script |
Daniel Clowes Terry Zwigoff |
| production |
Lianne Halfon Russell Smith John Malkovich |
| music | David Kitay |
| camera | Affonso Beato |
| cut |
Carole Kravetz Michael R. Miller |
| occupation | |
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Ghost World is a coming-of-age film directed by Terry Zwigoff in 2001 . It is based on a comic of the same name by Daniel Clowes , who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
The film is a satire on the emptiness of pop culture and purposely takes on the ironic format of a teen movie .
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The story centers on the relationship of two friends Enid Coleslaw (an anagram of Daniel Clowes ) and Rebecca , who are underdogs in their high school . The film also tells the story of Enid's relationship with the outsider Seymour.
After Enid and Rebecca have graduated from high school, they decide to rent an apartment together and find work, which Enid subliminally sabotages, sometimes more, sometimes less, because she cannot yet part with her old life . Since Enid has to repeat an art class and is looking for bizarre things and adventures by hanging out with Rebecca, they soon meet the outsider Seymour.
After Enid initially supported Seymour and even paired him up with a woman, the constructed framework soon collapses: An old advertising board (Coon Chicken) borrowed from Seymour is misinterpreted as a pro-racist message at an exhibition of Enid's art course because Enid fails to introduce it Has. A previously promised scholarship to an art college must then be rejected. Her inability to keep a part-time job and her constant sabotage of the search for an apartment also strains her relationship with her friend Rebecca. Since Enid has spent a night with Seymour, Seymour is separating from his girlfriend, only to lose his job due to the affair surrounding the billboard and to feel cheated by Enid because he believes her school friend Josh is her lover - he freaks out completely.
As a result, Enid's world has been completely turned inside out. Rebecca has become an independent young woman who appears to be starting a relationship with Josh. Seymour is in therapeutic treatment, and Enid's single father plans a new relationship with an ex-girlfriend whom Enid hated.
In the end, Enid fulfills her old dream of simply leaving the city spontaneously by bus without any announcement in order to find another person or finally to grow up.
Awards
Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff were nominated for an Oscar in 2002 for the script . Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch were nominated for the 2002 Golden Globe Award for their portrayals .
Thora Birch won a 2001 Deauville Film Festival award . In 2001 she won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award and the Golden Space Needle Award from the Seattle International Film Festival . She was nominated in 2002 for the MTV Movie Award in two categories as well as for the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Golden Satellite Award .
Scarlett Johansson won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award in 2001 and the Chlotrudis Award in 2002 . She was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award in 2002.
Steve Buscemi won the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 2001 and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award in 2002 , the Independent Spirit Award , the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award , the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award , the National Society of Film Critics Award , the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award and the Online Film Critics Society Award . He was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award and the AFI Film Award in 2002.
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Reviews
“Amusing comedy based on a comic book, which begins as non-binding teenagers' entertainment with rapid cuts, becomes increasingly uncomfortable and soon lets you look into the abyss of human existence. The subversive description of the state of a disaffected youth, carried by an extremely versatile leading actress. "
Web links
- Ghost World in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ghost World atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ghost World. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .