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''Ghost World'' is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Terry Zwigoff, based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay co-written by Clowes and Zwigoff. The story focuses on the lives of Enid and Rebecca (played by Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson), two teenage outsiders in an unnamed American city. The film was released with limited box-office success, but it was extremely well received by film critics. ==Plot== Best friends Enid and Rebecca face summer after their high-school graduation. The girls are social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than Enid. Enid's diploma is held on the condition that she attend a remedial art class. Even though she is a talented artist, her art teacher, Roberta, believes art must be socially meaningful and dismisses Enid's sketches as "light entertainment." The girls see a personal ad in which a lonely middle-aged man named Seymour asks a woman he met recently to contact him. Enid makes a prank phone call to Seymour, pretending to be the woman and inviting him to meet her at a diner, and when he goes there, the two girls, and their friend Josh, secretly watch and make fun of Seymour. However, Enid begins to feel sympathy for Seymour, so a few days later the girls follow him to his apartment building, where they find him selling vintage records in a garage sale. Enid buys an old blues album from him, and they gradually become friends. She tries to find women for him to date. Meanwhile, Enid has been attending her art class and in order to please her art teacher, Roberta, Enid persuades Seymour to lend her an old poster depicting a grotesquely caricatured black man, which was once used as a promotional tool by Coon Chicken Inn. In the film, "Coon Chicken Inn" has been renamed "Cook's Chicken', the fried-chicken franchise where Seymour works in a managerial position. In class, she presents the poster as a social comment about racism, and Roberta is so impressed with the concept that she later offers Enid a scholarship to an art college. Around this time, Seymour receives a phone call from Dana, the woman he had previously written to in the personal ad. Enid encourages him to pursue a relationship with Dana, but she becomes jealous when he does and then begins avoiding her to spend time with Dana. At this point, Enid's and Rebecca's lives diverge. While Enid has been spending time with Seymour, Rebecca has found a job and become more interested in clothing, boys, and other typical things. Enid finds a job so she can afford to rent an apartment with Rebecca, but she is fired after only one day. After Enid loses her job, the girls argue and Rebecca gives up the idea of living with Enid. At the end of the summer, Enid's and Seymour's lives fall apart. When Enid's poster is displayed in an art show, school officials find it so offensive they force Roberta to give her a failing grade; when Enid discovers she has lost her scholarship, she visits Seymour for solace, resulting in a drunken one-night stand. Seymour then breaks up with Dana, and is called-to-account at work when the poster is publicized in a local newspaper. He unsuccessfully tries to contact Enid, and Rebecca tells him about Enid's prank phone call and about mocking him earlier at the diner. Seymour is upset and later hospitalized after assaulting Josh, the boy who was with the girls at the diner. Enid comes to apologize, but Seymour realizes he has no chance with her. Finally, Enid gives in to her childhood fantasy of running away from home and disappearing. Throughout the film, she has repeatedly seen an old man named Norman, who has been waiting at an out-of-service bus stop for days on end, before finally boarding a bus that inexplicably arrives at the "out-of-service" bus stop. The next day, while Seymour discusses the summer's events with his therapist, Enid goes to the bench and boards the "out-of-service" bus when it arrives. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ghost World (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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