- disavows history and the (political) present in favour of a fantasy whose contents seemingly tell us more about the psychosexual proclivities of PTA than we ought to know. a movie that wears its cockhead out of its sleeve <- is this anything?
- v violently american in that it dispenses w the moral turgidity of disquiet/anxiety around personally political (or politically personal) violence in murdering a fascist. (Willa at the end compared to eg The Third Man, Guns of…

a specific kind of misery that you assume is adolescent but no actually it goes on, in fits and spurts, forever

this one going out to the girlies (non gendered) who've had devastating friend break-ups and then spent 3 - 5 yrs and subsequent personalities trying to recover from / forget

this one also going out to single moms and their asshole progeny important thing being it's actually no one and also everyone's fault

in the final analysis: Ghost World…

MMG: How would you respond to pro-Zionists watching your film, that despite your mother’s ‘rehabilitation of the Arab mind,’ the child actors become ‘terrorists?’

JMK: It’s a very sick question, not yours, but the pro-Zionist attitude that thinks the problem of violence is the violence of children and not the violence of the Israeli occupation and it’s exactly to turn the pyramid upside down again, and I mean to use the propaganda to turn the question [upside down]. The question…