What is the meaning of the title?

"Cracks" was the title of the source novel and has multiple meanings, but specifically is slang for having a crush on someone; all the girls on the team have crushes on Miss. "G". The novel also had much more a female "Lord of the Flies" thing; and in the book it symbolically refers to cracks in the thin veneer that makes us civilized.

It's use in the film is also appropriate in that Fiamma causes cracks in Miss G's carefully crafted facade and her mental stability. Some have also mentioned the symbolic crack in the door through which Diana observes Miss G. and Fiamma, but I don't think that has anything to do with the title.

I think the most appropriate explanation (since the story is really about Diana) is that it refers to cracks in the hard protective shell (of childhood) that Diana has built around herself (her simplistic worldview and her trust and hero worship of Miss G). Diana needs Fiamma's assistance to grow because she is being constrained by this shell. Someone has to crack the shell for Diana to break out of it.

The novel talks about 'cracks' as people through whom you come to see the world. My impression was that they are attractive people on whom 'crushes' are based. Ms. G was very attractive to and influential with the team.






"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

Even if that was the title of the original book, it could have had a better one. 'Cracks' is so nondescript.

Remember the scene where they swam nude?


Yeah, Cracks.

I think the title refers to the "cracks" that begin to appear in Miss G's facade after Fiamma arrives at the school.