And when the Lisbon girls kill themselves, do not blame their deaths on their weird parents. Trip left Lux not because he was a pig, but because he was a boy and broken with grief at the loss of his-their-dream. In life it attaches plumbing, fluids, gropings, fumblings and pain to what was only an hour ago a platonic ideal.
It was the end of adolescence and the beginning of a lifetime of compromises, disenchantments and real things.
But out there on the football field, it was different." Yes, it was. And the point is that Trip, as the adult narrator, remembers not only that "she was the still point of the turning world then" and "most people never taste that kind of love" but also, "I liked her a lot. The point is that she wakes up the next morning, alone, in the middle of the football field. In every class there is one couple who has sex while the others are only talking about it, and Trip and Lux make love on the night of the big dance. About how Trip Fontaine ( Josh Hartnett), the leader of the pack, loses his baby fat and shoots up into a junior stud who is blindsided by sex and beauty, and dazzled by Lux Lisbon ( Kirsten Dunst), who of the perfect Lisbon girls is the most perfect. The movie is as much about those guys, "we," as about the Lisbon girls.
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