5º – The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
In the plot, a group of teenagers finds themselves completely obsessed by some neighborhood sisters who live under an insurmountable conceptual gutter. The film gains its substance precisely by exploring the day-to-day lives of teenagers and sisters in the midst of the 1970s American scene. ‘The Virgin Suicides’ is an engaging movie from the first to the last scene, using the figure of human curiosity to give weight to your tangle of situations.
4º – Prozac Nation (Erik Skjoldbjærg, 2001)
During her college beginnings, a young woman experiences severe emotional instability, seeing her life enter into an inexorable degenerative routine. ‘Prozac Nation’ questions the meaning of life as collective in our society, showing how this notion of existence can be destructive to certain individuals, and, of course, to study the nuances of depression in an assertive way.
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