Veronika Decides to Die

Good Movie

Top badass moment? Buffy has everything but then puts on a Radiohead CD and decides to kill herself. Can’t say I blame her. However, (microscopically small spoiler alert) she isn’t successful. Some dubious medical treatment then follows and she plays the piano. The opening few scenes are pretty powerful, so after that it’s a slight let-down, but it does get across the sheer pointlessness of life quite well. And we learn fashion is bad. Crap ending. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Gellar gave a great performance,but pretty dull material. Big opportunity missed

Veronika Decides to Die is a film that lives and dies with its themes and ideas, not with its plot, characters, or script, all of which are weaker than a drama like this one usually requires. It's proof that a film can succeed just with what it makes you feel and think about. Sarah Michelle Gellar is good in the lead, but she isn't the reason the film works. It's a success because of what it will make you think about and how it'll make you feel about both it and your own life.

Buffy decides to, like, play piano dramaticly! And to be vivid! And fashion is to blame! But, Oh, they're in love..... And life is good again! YAY!

It's extremely hard to portray a suicide in any sort of positive light. It's even more difficult to execute an attempt without any sort of build up. After all, why should we give two shits about an upperclass, moderately successful woman throwing it all away just because? We shouldn't, that's why. I guess showing off a psychiatric hospital's practice is what's important here. The supporting cast is far more interesting than Veronika, and the ending feels cheap.

A descent adaption of a great book by one of the most talented writers of our time. Emily Young did a good job, so the problem with this novel is, that it's really hard to adapt. If you have the choice i'd recommend the book.

Would be much better...

Poor and not interestiing at all.

Disappointing that Coelho's only decent book got such poor treatment

Interesting.