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ANOMIE

Today's Best Film was Ghost World (2000).

I saw it when it was around.

It is funny in a snide way with all of this immense sadness just under the surface.

Two teens, so alienated that they only have each other's emptiness to lean on, run the very small gamut they have left.

Based on a comic series (I think it is a series), the film looks and feels like its source material; colors, graphics, pace.

Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson are the girls. Steve Buscemi is a guy they pull a prank on and then develop a relationship with.

You know the kind of movie it is when you see Buscemi in the cast although he is somewhat subdued here.

The ending is the best. No Hollywood soppy resolution for these guys.

I liked it both times I saw it.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.