#the diary of a teenage girl

[hungryfictions]

Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl

[vanillandcinnamon]

[grayswan444]

can we start a petition to bring back alexander skarsgård's mustache?

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

[lanitsunami]

One the best movies I’ve watched in a while. It’s a age gap movie, and Minnie (the girl) has an affair with her mothers boyfriend (Monroe) because she thinks she’s unloveable and believes a opportunity where she feels wanted won’t come again. It’s an emotional coming-of-age movie. Lana Del Rey also mentions this movie in one of her recent songs, A&W

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moodboard

[cherryxdie23]

What’s the point of living if nobody loves you, nobody touches you, nobody sees you?”

watching Teenage Diary of a Girl,wondering what went wrong

[thcrns]

linked in the source is a completed gif pack (#203) of alexander skarsgård as monroe in the diary of a teenage girl (2015). these gifs were made from scratch by me so please don’t claim as your own, and read my rules before saving/using!! do not use to rp as alexander himself. please give credit where credit is due, and give this post a like and/or reblog if you plan on saving/using!

keep in mind alexander skarsgård is a white cis man born in 1976 (46) and was likely 37/38 when the movie was filmed.

TW: drinking, kissing, slight nudity

[galadust]

☆Dancing in movies☆

[wagingmywarsbehindmyface]

BEL POWLEY on her wedding day 🤍🕊️✨

[vanillandcinnamon]

༄ makeup from yesterday

[ilockedhiminabasement]

just watched the diary of a teenage girl. yet again, i missed the point of an entire movie. but what i do know is that i need an older man. i will not get by in life with an immature being from this gen. i might be from this gen and i admit im stupid and also am not mature. but i fear that having an older man can alter my perspectives in a lot of things and change me for the better. in the movie, she ends up being independent; but me, i dont think that will ever be the case. im so dependent on others and although I take the responsibility in so many things. i just do not see myself being independent on certain things. i don't see myself not having a man (still very much preferably an older one) tell me what to do. the movie being about feminism did not do it for me because i still go back on old traditions. everything about this movie did something to me, from her first time with him to her greeting him goodbye by the beach. im very ashamed to say all this. but it's how i feel and it's staying. + new comfort movie.

[mooniehoneyrey]

The diary of a teenage girl •°🧸📙

" I want someone to be so totally in love with me that they would feel like they would die if I were gone. Maybe Monroe could love me like that."

"Here it is the !Little Minnie¡"

 "I always thought I wanted to be exactly like my mom. But she thinks she needs a man to be happy. I don't."

It feels like there are little weights hanging from my heart that swing and tug every time I move, every time the wind blows.

I saw this movie a couple of Years ago when i was thirtheen, now that i'm sixteen i feel as her (but virgin lol), and i just feel like her, her mom, her sister, the "pretty girlfriend" who every guy likes, feel invisible just as her, the fucked up school, her thouhgts, just.

🩷.This is for all the girls when they have grown. Signing off, trusty diary. Love, Minnie Goetze. 🩷

°•The diary of a teenage girl•°

[sacrificialam6]

i am her

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Yeowch

[thcrns]

linked in the source is an in-progress gif pack (#85) of alexander skarsgård as monroe in the diary of a teenage girl (2015). these gifs were made from scratch by me so please don’t claim as your own, and read my rules before saving/using!! do not use to rp taboo subjects or as alexander himself, but feel free to save/use them to rp oc/canon characters, as reaction gifs, in sidebars, etc. please give credit where credit is due, and give this post a like and/or reblog if you plan on saving/using!

keep in mind alexander skarsgård is a white cis man born in 1976 (46) and was likely 37/38 when the movie was filmed.

TW: drinking, kissing

[filmpenance]

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

(2015) Marielle Heller 1h 42m [Day 3 - 2024]

"What's the point of living if nobody loves you? Nobody sees you? Nobody touches you" - Minnie

It's 1976 San Francisco and Minnie is overwhelmed with self-satisfaction. You see Minnie has just had sex for the first time, the thing that she has been longing so desperately for. Because if you are not being desired do you even exist?

Thus is the setup for "The Diary of a Teenage Girl", and while Minnie is 15, this is not a film geared toward that age group.

We quickly learn that Minnie's paramour (Bel Powley) is her mother's 35-year-old boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), so we know immediately that her bravado is misplaced and that she's being taken advantage of. Minnie cannot see it that way. Love is attention from her point of view.

Minnie lives with her single mom Charlotte (Kristen Wiig) and her sister Gretel (Abby Wait) in a rented place, where any night could become a party.

We get the sense that Charlotte has also run through a string of relationships to get to this point in her life. When it comes to looking for care from the wrong people, the apple did not fall far from the tree.

In this world of free love, minimal supervision and no social media we see transformational events happen in secret with their impact oozing into the day to day.

I appreciated the onscreen relationship between Minnie and Charlotte. There is love between them, but neither is equipped very well. It's a thorny relationship, and true.

The film does a good job of not pitying Minnie, and not letting Minnie feel like she's broken in any way. Her lessons all arrive the hard way.

Explicitly so. We see the sexual encounters that occur, which made me grateful to learn that Bel Powley was 22 at the time of filming.

"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" does not pull it's punches, and it benefits from this approach. It's the quotidian horror of abuse. It's also about moving forward with your scars and your humanity.

Recommended

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PAIR WITH: I'd pair this movie with Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank". It's about a 15-year-old in a Scottish housing project who dreams of leaving to become a dancer and the desperate lengths she'll go to for attention.