We watched Ghost World last night and it looked very much like what it was based on...Japanese cartoon books....all the flat and colorful scenery and the way the characters moved and dressed and had such flat expressions. The blonde girl started out being quirky but she experienced growth...her body moved differently and she spoke differently at the end of the movie while the brunette remained more stiff and expressionless.
Each street scene was like a frame by frame comic book, with weird and unusual people walking in and out of almost every outdoor scene. The colors of the buildings, the archectiture...all of it straight out of a comic book. Frightening to realize they shot this movie on location!
We both liked this thing very much...probably didn't notice the "falling off" in the last third because we were switching back and forth to the Olympics figure skating. We viewed this movie like one would read a comic..laying it down and then picking it up where we left off later.
