Lost and Delirious

Parabo reminds me of a young Julia Roberts, here a lesbian at an all girls school let down when her partner breaks up to date a boyfriend and keep the affair a secret from her parents, the teachers, and the other girls. The furor inside grows meniacal from this point while she duels with a sword on top of a table and knocks over a huge cafeteria tray shelf at lunchtime after her girlfriends have left her table to talk about her. I must admit my tolerance for this genre has grown thin of all girls or all boys at some private school rebelling against rules to fulfill their base urges or fantasies in some type of anarchy where those in charge do little to intervene. Early efforts like Lord of the Flies come to mind, but the scene where she takes a bird on a leash out to the forest and trains it to fly seemed freely borrowed from Evan Hunter's novel and film based on it, "Last Summer."

Lost and delirious is one of the most beautiful movies i have ever seen. You can approach to it in different ways: as a tragic love story, as a metaphor of the lost of innocence (that awful moment when we realize, that our choices begin to change our lives in a way we cannot control) and as a amazing aesthetic exercise of eroticism. I think the second is the most remarkable one, because it is a metaphor of a key moment in the life of every human being. Perabo's character refuses to embrace her lover's choice and desperately tries to find way out of reality, in the idealized past of knights-hood. Her choice drives her to lost everything.

This movie was pretty good but at the same time it was pretty sad. The movie is about a young freshman girl named Mary who enters into a boarding school for girls. She rooms with two other roommates, Pauline and Victoria. After settling end with her new best friends she suddenly realizes that both women are really lesbians and are in love with each other. But Mary, being the good sport she is, excepts their love, keeps their little dirty secret, and stay remaining friends. Suddenly the two lovers get caught and soon Victoria second thinks her little love fling with Pauline and decides to break off the relationship indefinitly. But Pauline doesn't feel the same way and suddenly she goes into the break of desperation and insanity. Will Pauline ever convince Victoria to except who she is and get back her love? Or will she lose Victoria forever and at the same time lose her mind?

this is a movie about love, though you may see it categorized as lesbianism by accounts that need categorize it as ... something. think only of your deepest pain of love lost. now think it that someone had been there during your deepest feelings of tragedy, had captured it in an artistic eye's video, had provided slow motion where necessary, had accompanied the scenes with the most necessary of heartfelt music, etc, etc, had captured everything so that your pain served in solitude, and because of solitude, was not served in vain. a truly beautiful movie.

Of course with any film like this, their will be cynics who feel the need to cut it up, and put it down. Things like the symbolism is too basic, or doesn't work, or that the characters were not developed enough. Just because someone doesn't get a piece of art I feel it is sad to put it down, like what they don't understand has to be crushed. "Their bloodless souls crave blood". I think you either relate to this movie or you don't. It is nothing complex, and I think that's really why I liked it so much. I think it has been said already, this film is about one thing, love. Told in the way a school girl would see it, which is its beauty, if you threw heavy handed structure on top of it, it would just take away from it. It is also a beautiful film, the cinematography is superb for the budget it was shot on. I say well, done, one the best movies I've see on video this year....