She's an early millennial living in the very early 2000's. She's out of step with the culture and can't conform to the American rat race. Do you think she could have changed, adjusted or sold out with time? or would she choose suicide as a way out as the film suggested.
shareHow was suicide ever suggested? She left town.
shareThe suicide theory is tired, especially since she mentions earlier in the film her literal fantasy of leaving town on a bus and never looking back. That's what she did.
Honestly I see her turning out like Seymour since they had so much in common. Begrudgingly ending up in an office job and maintaining her niche interests, lonely, unable to connect with people. It's hard to shake such a cynical outlook at such a young age. You don't really grow out of that, unless you're lucky.
I personally think she wound up being an indie comic creator. She took that bus, went somewhere where nobody knew who she was, and she reinvented herself to stop being so snarky and aloof, and she spent her time working on art, managed to get some stuff on some shelves. I don't think she was ever living large, but I think that's what happened to her.
Either way, I really hope she neither broke down and conformed, nor stayed as somebody who just snipes at everybody else from the sidelines.
I suggest you watch "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." Thora Birch has a cameo in the film as her Enid character from "Ghost World."
shareThanks for the tip sound interesting!
shareShe's only in the film a minute if that.
But I love that scene on the bus when Jimmie tells her that she can't hate San Francisco unless she loves it (she's complaining to her friend about hating the place) but you can see that Jimmie words hit her hard (although not her friend). Well acted by Thora Birch.
The director is a big fan of Ghost World and it's a nice little nod to it.
I am among those who think that the bus out of town was a metaphor for death. The solitary old man who was there every day wasn't waiting to leave town, he was waiting to die, because he had nothing more to live for.
However, if I'm wrong, I think there's a chance that Enid could have been okay, but she never would have made it as an ironic post-modern artist. But if she got away she would have made a new life for herself somewhere, grown into who she really was... but not who she'd wanted to be as an unrealistic teenager.