- ISBN13: 9780767827744
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Product Description
A young teen with no support from family, friends and school falls in love with the unattainable coolest guy in high school at the same time she wins the sympathy and attention of the junior high school bully.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-AUG-1999
Media Type: DVDAmazon.com
What is junior high school but a strange, disorienting pastiche of black comedy, tragedy, soap opera, and (most of all) horror movie? Well, that pretty much describes Todd Solondz’s astonishingly honest and clear-sighted film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Like Solondz’s even more controversial follow-up–the acclaimed and despised Happiness (1998)–Dollhouse unflinchingly looks deep into its characters’ souls (and their embarrassing desires, and their floundering sexuality) in ways that can be simultaneously disturbing and liberating, appalling and hilarious. Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is a hapless seventh-grade geek whose cruel and contemptuous schoolmates have nicknamed her (what else?) “Wiener Dog.” Everything about Dawn is so awkward–the way she looks, talks, moves–that it’s no wonder other kids dump on her. They’re most likely so insecure about themselves that they’re terrified of the Wiener Dog they know lurks somewhere down inside themselves, too. So, the best social and psychological survival tactic is to distance themselves from Dawn by relentlessly reminding her of her “place” at the bottom of the junior-high pecking order. Solondz’s vision is hardly sentimental, and you wouldn’t even call it “compassionate,” but it is a moral vision: authentic, undiluted, and, in the end, understanding. –Jim Emerson
This film has partly spawned and fueled my hate for independent films. Every one is supposed to be a deep and emotional look at the human condition, but in fact I found I cannot relate to them at all. The characters don’t act like human beings, it’s as if an alien made the movie. Sure, everyone goes through an awkward phase, but this isn’t really anything like reality, in my experience, it wasn’t that twisted. When you read a book, it pisses you off when it doesn’t conclude anything, but when a movie does it, it’s art. Artsyness strikes me as very false, and really kind of an “Emperor’s New Clothes” act. Maybe I’m ignorant of “art,” but this was not funny, extremely weird, and didn’t really conclude anything. I hated this movie, it is part of my list of top 5 worst movies. Also included are “About Schmidt,” which is long, boring and pointless, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” which is just plain weird and excruciating to watch, “The Sea Inside,” which is puke inducingly repetitive and boring, and “Elephant” which does not conclude itself at all, and utilizes artsy long running shots where the cameraman walks behind someone as they walk around for about 15 minutes. The last is the least bad of all of these, but it is still irritating to watch until the final part, and then it just leaves everything hanging at the end, after doing a horribly long buildup. I don’t recommend this movie, unless you want to see a warped and depressing veiw of humanity with a inconclusive ending and nothing that really happens to any result the entire time. I probably missed the point, but this was not entertaining to me at all.
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First, I want to say I do like Heather Matarazzo as an actor. She’s brave and certainly you can see that by her choice of roles. However, this is a terrible movie and I was saddened that her parents or gaurdians allowed her to be in it. The song is catchy and no doubt the bad values displayed in this film are, too, for some people. The absence of goodness and caring in this film is just depressing. I’m sure some people’s lives are like this, but it’s not the commonplace experience of adolescence, even for ‘outsiders’ or ‘geeky’ kids. It’s tragic and traumatic and frightening. Not comedy and definitely not cool. Furthermore, anyone misguided enough to think that the would-be rapist kid ‘loves’ Matarazzo’s character is just sick in the head. Do yourself a favor. Avoid nihilism and other branches of art advocating bad values. Garbage in, garbage out.
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This movie was depressing but i mean if you are emotionally hurt by this movie you probably have many problems of your own and shouldnt be leaving your house. But on the other side of the arguement that this movie is great…. It is a pointless stringing together of little problems teens have as they are growing up. We were all teens right? These are things we have all lived through. We dont need to see things that we ourselves lived through just to say “hey my mom did that” or “hey i remember that when i did that” This movie is just showing us things we have ourselves lived through.
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A friend and I rented this, and then sat as our terriblefeelings of insecurity and childhood traumas were played out on the screen. It wasn’t funny. I know what funny is. Seeing a girl in junior high, who has never even kissed a boy, offer to sleep with an olderguy in order to be popular is sad. The main character is portrayed as utterly pathetic and miserable.
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Dawn play very good the geek of the school, how can a poney tail, glasses, clothes and the way you behave can make you look so geek, even ugly but in reality I didn’t find Dawn ugly, she’s even pretty but her look and the way she behave make her a total geek. Some parts of the movie you wish to be there and tell her, hey defend yourself don’t just stay there, push them back, do something, don’t let this happen to you but no Dawn don’t say nothing, well sometime she do but very rarely. Some odd situations I found in this movie are why she went to meet the boy (Brandon) who said he would rape her and she even want to be his girlfriend? That’s weird, not realistic at all!Her young sister get kidnapped, Dawn go to NY to find her, she called home her brother respond to the phone, he told her that their young sister was found, he make it sound like she was just over some place and now she is back. Very weird!It’s a interesting movie but some parts of it are way not realistic and I found the end have no meaning, well the movie don’t even go real meaning, except to see how a geek at school get bully by her classmates!
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