Lost and Delirious

Lost and Delirious

You’re given an exclusive girls’ boarding school, checkered skirts and maroon blazers, a wide-eyed sheltered blonde skinny girl and her two older roommates who have a world of their own, and you know exactly what to expect.

Lost and Delirious was based on a novel entitled The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan.

Mary is the new girl suddenly exposed to long-existing traditions within the school, and she has to find her place. Slowly and unaware, she is drawn into the lives of Tori and Paulie, and inevitably exposed to the relationship the two have. They made an effort to involve her in their plans. She grows so used to them, and they get used to having her around. She sees, but she doesn’t understand.

In words that can only be described as innocent she narrates the tale in her quiet voice, thinking that when she sees her roommates kissing, they’re practicing for boys. She only has preconceptions, and misconceptions, but makes no judgments. While she doesn’t seem to understand, she accepts wholeheartedly, almost without even thinking first.

The couple faces its own challenges in the form of boys, teachers, and most especially, family. Tori and Paulie are only a couple in secret, but when Tori’s younger sister catches them in an extremely suspenseful scene, everything changes.

While Tori deals with fitting back into what is demanded of her, Paulie tries her hardest to fight for her love as she deals with other problems beyond losing Tori. Mary becomes confidante to both girls, but this time around, separately. Listen to their conversations, because they let you forgive each of the characters for their actions.

Beyond pressure and expectation looms something so much greater. Whatever it was, it was an emotion so uncontrollable, overpowering, irrevocable, maybe irrational, but just the same, true.

The idea of just how easily the expectations of a teenage girl’s parents and peers can push her to follow a given mold is magnified. Ultimately, the movie illustrates how a love so great can become someone’s sole purpose for living, no matter who opposes.

What happens, then, when your reason is gone?
So the story ends. I rush into the secret house.