now that i know the film be base on a comic book and it figure . a i watch it without know that and i be remind of mtv daria and especially in the way the main character and enid and reacts to mostly everything and everyone with a mix of sarcasm and apathy . thora birch play yet another teenage misfit and it hard to tell if she so good at it or if youre just use to see her in that role . there be time when the clichés and caricature can become a bit too heavy and but overall it work . everything in the film have a sketch like quality and from the photography and set to the plot itself and which be more like a series of vignette . sketch be also how enid describe the reality around her and by draw on her diary . there a theme of fakeness run through the film and several brief comedy scene serve to illustrate that like when enid and her friend be sit in a fifty authentic diner and 80 music come through the juke box . it one of the sign of the uninspiring and suspend surreality they live in . enid friend and rebecca and play by scarlet johansson and be a marginal character and she doesn not get much of a role in the film and other than to serve a contrast for enid . she end up adapt more easily and get a job and a flat and and their relationship grow colder a enid have more and more difficulty follow her friend example and or even decide if she want to follow that route at all . there a scene where rebecca and frustrate by enid inability to make up her mind and blurt out rather cruelly good luck live with your father for the rest of your life . that remark and along with the situation it refer to and be one of the thing that lead enid to realize she need to take some decision or they will all be take for her by others . that be what the whole film basically revolve around . there be funny bit of social satire and like the misguided controversy over enid art piece and the failure of her teacher to stand up for her . for enid and even good experience start from unpromising circumstance and her own most careless indifference . the idea of life a a matter of success vs. failure and winner vs. loser be debunk . steve buscemi be and a ever and absolutely brilliant a the dork seymour . his character be also in many way a caricature and but he give it real depth . the unlikely affair develop between him and enid be the most genuine part of the film . what happen to seymour in the end be deal with a heavy dose of comedy than perhaps would have be necessary and while enid future be more poetically left open end . for anyone expect some sort of definite closure and this be go to be disappointing and but i do not think it be one of the flaw of the film . it just doesn not have a typical plot development so there be no contradiction in the end be so vague . the final scene make nice use of a tiny sub plot that be both comical and load with heavy symbolism and the old man sit on a bench wait for a bus that never seem to come . when enid finally catch her own bus we do not know where it lead and what she plan to do or with what money and but and a someone who really can not stand cheesy happy ending and i think this be a nice way of close the film . she finally get the courage to enact her wish about leave in exactly the way she have talk of before . it do work a a resolution in an understated way and show u how and after wait for something to happen from outside and she finally decide it be up to her to start take control of her life . all in all and an enjoyable and lighthearted and bittersweet satirical comedy and with good acting ( do i mention buscemi be fabulous . ) and amuse dialogue and situation . just do not expect too much out of it and and you will be pleasantly surprise . positive .