Where Clowes’s original text focused squarely on Enid’s tumultuous relationship with Rebecca in a post-graduation limbo, Zwigoff creates something more palpable with the film’s open-ended finale, which evokes Enid’s uncertainty now that she has accepted being an adult. Enid and Rebecca spend endless hours poking fun at the people around them, all in the hopes of adding a smidgen of self-worth to their otherwise unhappy lives. Zwigoff, like Clowes, is concerned with that crawlspace between adolescent fear and adult actualization. Enid can’t bring herself to sell a toy during a yard sale not necessarily because the potential buyer is a perceived “loser” but because it’s easier to keep it than to perceive someone else reinventing the life of something she once held dear.
GHOST WORLD MOVIE
The “ghost world” in question is a nameless town inundated by mini-malls, coffee shops, movie theaters, and people desperately and hopelessly trying to get rid of yesterday’s knick-knacks. Their outré taste in clothing and affinity for pranks are just some of the ways they try to make their lives more interesting. Thus Enid and Rebecca fight to stay sane by reacting to the world around them. She and her best friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) believe themselves to be victims to a society that champions cultural homogenization via commercialism. Enid (Thora Birch) is a woman warrior, contemptible but nonetheless sympathetic. Between failing summer school, loosing her best friend, fucking Seymour and ruining that relationship as well, and between her father, his new girlfriend is moving in and the whole quitting her job deal.Terry Zwigoff successfully transitions Ghost World from graphic novel to film, maintaining Daniel Clowes’s singular obsession with small-town adolescent loneliness and the fear associated with adult responsibility. Lastly think of the run Enid has had throughout this movie, she pretty much fucks her entire life up. What he's really waiting for is death and this is a plot device to show what it is like to grow old every day while you wait for your eventual demise, so when Enid sees the old man finally board the bus what she is actually seeing is the old mans death. With the old man, as I mentioned he's waiting for the bus day in and day out, until eventually at the end of story he catches the bus. Earlier in the movie Enid mentions that her ultimate fantasy is to leave town and not tell anybody and just disappear, which I think is what we're meant to believe happens to her, but every time I watch Ghost World it's just an itching the back of my mind thinking the bus is actually Death. Furthermore the only other person we see getting on the same bus is the old man that is seen periodically throughout the film waiting for said bus. So anyways at the end of the movie we see Enid after everything that has happened to her gets on a bus, but a bus that is no longer is service.
Hey guys, I've seen Ghost World a few times and after watching it recently I've always thought something about the ending that isn't necessarily out rightly said in the movie, and after a quick search of this subreddit not talked about on here either.
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