Submarine.

I saw Submarine yesterday in the basement of Greenwich's Picturehouse (an absolutely darling venue I must say) and it got me thinking of favourite things as Salinger's Catcher in The Rye and the recent Perks Of Being A Wallflower. It will be an interesting observation to see how the latter compares to Ayoade's perfect timing and pregnant pauses when it's transferred to film.
Much has to be said for the honesty many British Indie films seem to possess, which may be lost through Wallflower's American setting.
What can I say, though, I'm an incredibly impressionable young lady. Give me a pale outcast in a duffel coat, a defiant female, an empty bathtub next to a railway line and a shitload of fireworks and I'm smitten.
It also got me thinking about the counterculture "coming of age" films which boast female characters as opposed to Holden Caulfields or Oliver Tates. My mum suggested Juno, but i felt that it was bigger than  merely "coming of age", the whole pregnancy aspect put a different turn on the lonely girl theme. Again, I'm going to use this as an opportunity to bang on about my favourite film/book (I won't call it a graphic novel!) Ghost World. Never has a female character been so well written by a male, Enid's journey through the narrative is both amusingly mundane and incredibly moving.
I see it as a life goal to maybe one day create a female Coming Of Age Piece which is just as evocative.
xoxo