ntriguing at the least. The five sisters, Mary, Cecilia, Therese, Bonnie, and Lux, live under the thumbs of their possessive and ultra-Christian parents who show nothing but blind sincerity. The girls are not allowed to date until after high school, as is and was not uncommon in suburbanite homes, and the only one who seems to defy them is the polar Lux. Everything about her lives in contrast to the rest of her family, except for her platinum blonde sheen. When the youngest sister, Cecilia, attempts suicide, the family is baffled and is determined to right whatever has clearly been wronged. She is allowed home from the hospital, and soon succeeds in what she had failed before. The remaining 4 Lisbon girls are taken out of school and holed up in their home, cut off from the world, save a collection of travel catalogues that they subscribe to. We see the sisters slowly mellow into what would seem a walking trance, barely moving and wrapped by the death of their fifth part. They continue, dusty as the little relics that occupy every shelf and counter in their home, until the films final moments, when each of their deaths are revealed. Their reasons are never revealed; perhaps there were none. In other reviews and summaries and whatnot, it has been said that the 
point of the open ending was that people are unpredictable and their actions can't always be explained. But maybe it's not why we do what we do, but the fact that we did. The film has also been criticized for its aesthetic focus, which is part of the draw for myself. Sometimes you just want to watch something beautiful and pleasing, is there no place for that in modern cinema?To wrap this up, I'd like to tell you that if you haven't seen this one yet, do. No matter what you are thinking by the end of it, I'm sure it'll never leave you.
-K
