Did you ever see Ghost World? (Spoiler alert)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

I just got around to it and I liked it. Am I off base thinking Enid committed suicide at the end?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

1. I definitely don't remember interpreting it like that

But it's been awhile since I've seen it, so I don't really remember how it ends exactly...

[Starry Messenger]

2. hello!

In the graphic novel the movie is based on, it's made a little clearer that Enid has left to "seek her fortune" as it were. There's an epilogue chapter where she comes back and sort of lurks around her old haunts a few years later incognito. The end of the movie is pretty haunting though. (please excuse my pre-coffee grammer mistakes)

MPK

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. Maybe the screen writer wanted to make it more ambiguous

But I interpretted the old man no longer being there as indicative of his death. And the bus that stopped for him at the inactive bus stop was death. She nodded knowingly and smiled when she saw him go, and then she went, herself, from the same inactive bus stop.

One other thing I noticed was her holding the pill bottle when she went to visit Seymour. And then the bus driving away into the black was also a metaphor to me.

She had nothing left to live for and no place else to go.

On the other hand, there had been no other foreshadowing about suicide that I could see.

She was a very depressed kid, however.

I like movies that make me stop and think.

I'll get the book, too.

[tigereye]

3. that's not how I read it

but it's been awhile.

It's a very funny and oddly sad movie, though.