why is it called the virgin suicides?

It had to do with the Virgin Mary cards. If you remember, when the paramedics came for Cecilia's body after she slit her wrists, the card drops from the palm of her hand. And, although the cards pop up a few other times in the film, the most important one is when one of the boys finds the Virgin Mary card in his bike wheel. That, in a way, foreshadows the Lisbon girls suicide since the cards have alluded to bad events throughout the film.

Hope that helps:)



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That's how I always saw it as well.

ahhh that makes a lot of sense, you forget when you watch the film how young lux is meant to be, because of how old kirsten dunst looks. i guess youd have to read the book to have an untainted veiw of how young she really is. thanks!

I kind of saw it like this too. But I also thought that they used the word virgin to describe the way the boys saw them: Five virginal impossible beauties. Throughout the whole film they idealize the heck out of the Lisbon girls, and perhaps the title just drives it home.

That, plus Lux (like all the other ones) was a virgin "in nature". She's not pictured as some little slut that since she discovered what's itching down there, went out and started exchanging it for Lust (pan intended). She had feelings for her first, she didn't just do it with him like e.g. Sybil Shepherd does it on "The Last Picture Show". Her "reaction" (humping anybody on the roof) was just the outcome of the traumatic experience of being left alone in the football field and the parental consequences this brought with.
All in all, i think it was ok to include her under the general title "The Virgin Suicides", instead of changing it to "The Virgin Plus One Tart's Sucides".

Exactly. Innocence. I first saw this movie at 13 (having read the book), then 15, 16, 17, and into my 20s (I'm 28 now). This movie will always stick with me. I related to the book and the movie so much. Looking back, it was that feeling of innocence, and losing innocence-- seemingly every day, that made me cling to this movie (book). Virgin isn't literal. I don't know what else to say.

Lux's was def a suicide, she was buying time for bonnie and then went out back. The boys went downstairs, found bonnie and then the others, and forgot about Lux in the commotion because she was out in the garage and no one found her until the morning.

its more clear in the book

The virgin mary cards sound right, but in the book it refrences a song w/ the lyrics printed

virgin suicide
what was that she cried?
no use in stayin'
on this holocaust ride
she gave me her cherry
she's my virgin suicide

Bitch, that's a mistake (unforgivable)

She's not sleeping. She killed herself with the carbon monoxide from the car, knowing full well the boys would find her.

Nooo, it's because they were so unexperienced and unprepared for life, which consequently led to their suicides.
That and the lyrics from the book.

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In the book it talks about a song that Lux really likes and its one of the band records that Mrs Lisbon made Lux burn. it goes like this:
Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide



Not all who wander are lost...

I respect the guys except Tripp never tried to take advantage of them, that is sad Lux was the village bicycle at 14. I'm surprised her sisters or parents never caught her.