how old are fans?

I'm 25, and I first saw this movie in the theater. I have seen it every couple years since then and my perception of the movie has really changed over time (as other people have mentioned happening to them).

Colin, you may not know it now, but when you watch this movie in a few years, you will probably see that you at 14 have more in common with Enid than you can see now. Not that you are a bad person or anything, but it becomes clearer to (decent) people as they get older, the ways in which they have been selfish and destructive in their relationships without realizing it.

For me at least, there is a strange brew of simultaneous sympathy and revulsion for Enid's character, and almost all of it stems from the ways in which I identify with her. When I first saw the movie, I was under the assumption that Enid was a model of some sort - that her attitudes were the artist's idea of what an attitude should be like. I wasn't a very perceptive person.

Now I see it as much more a bittersweet portrait of the artist as a young man (cough) - how he views that earlier version of himself (or whoever he models Enid after). He admires her defiance but is dismayed by her destructive influence on herself and those around her.

Anyway, have some sympathy for Enid. She's more you than you realize.

thank god I'm not the only oldster who likes this film. I guess I would identify with Seymour rather than Enid. Pretty sad huh?

i'm sixteen, but i think people from all different age groups enjoy this movie.

hasn't anyone ever told you that smoking was bad for you?

no..no one..THANK YOU.

Hah! I win because I am the oldest-48-. I loved it, but I am also a writer, director, and entertainer. It's the dark evil twin of Napoleon Dynamite. Why did it have to be SOOO foul and depressing-or at least so foul? And why are 13 year olds allowed to watch it. Smack you and your parents!!!