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"People used to write reviews and say, “[Enid]'s cynical and depressed,” and I think she was the exact opposite of that. She figured out a way to make her life more exciting just by imagining the things around her being charged with some kind of mystery and energy that’s possibly not actually there, but that she’s giving to them. She’s able to look at people on the street and imagine these huge, important stories about them and to create drama out of very small things in her life. And I think that’s kind of the best you can hope for when you’re stuck like she is." -- Daniel Clowes

'Ghost World' is Daniel Clowes' most famous work. It was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson. The original comic is about the relationship between the two girls Enid and Rebecca; the film on the other hand introduces a new character (technically a composite character lifted from a few minor characters in the comic) played by Steve Buscemi. The core relationship in the film is between Birch and Buscemi's characters and at times it feels like Buscemi is the lead. Even as a Buscemi fan I found it kind of weird that the film took what was a coming of age story about two girls and made it largely about a middle-aged man. Maybe I need to watch it again.

NSFW for sex/nudity