jjparish You cant help but take Paulies side and react with disbelief to Tori's actions. She truly loves Paulie but is so scared of the consequences of following her heart. For me this is Piper Perabo's best and most memorable role. The love/ kissing scenes were passionate and very believable. Nothing at all gratuitous there. The fragility she gives Paulie as we watch her decline and ultimate demise is heartbreaking. It actually brought tears to my eyes. Credit also to a very young looking Mischa Barton. With so much intensity on screen we needed her to calm things down a bit every now and again.

hamass-mujadid The movie follows its intention rightfully, honoring its very title—Lost & Delirious. You get lost, you get delirious, and yes, just by watching the pungent storyline, pungent being the uniqueness, rather aberrant conundrum of the script. The spell gets lost, however, with debilitating performances of the cast, and particularly Piper Perabu (Paulie,) who got awry whenever it came to intense situations. The other actresses (Jessica Pare (Tori), Mischa Barton (Mouse)) didn't have very intense situations so it worked fine with them. Paulie, however, undermined the very serious notion of the movie, and while the script continued to hit audiences with vigor and might, her performance wasn't exactly congenial to it. By the way, Piper now is a wonderful and much better actress now than she was back then, so that's perfectly fine.Some very peculiar elements, like the raptor, the gardener, and the English Literature classes, and the very liberal and open-minded teacher, together with contradiction of thoughts and behaviors, for example, Victoria's recognition of intimacy with Pauline, but failure to go on with her because of family's inclinations, such as personal attitude and religious affiliations, are all very much applicable to real life, so that's a perfect insight of most high-school, and college students. And that's mainly why the movie continues to serve such profound individualistic influence amongst people so well bound under the society as a whole. And practically even, there's no way out, except private affairs, which again, come under the retaliation of conservatives, and thus, individualistic preferences are subdued with extreme prejudice for subcultures and down-the-road likenesses. The point is, Lost & Delirious tremendously inflects on subtle necessities and feelings of humans, and highlights the various turns, U-turns in fact, that cross them all, to simply relinquish possibilities of artificial success. So what it's really trying to say is that human is his own enemy. Artificiality kills the man. Our own traditions, lifestyle choices, cultures, and trends are the biggest traitors. They themselves are swords, which slowly penetrate our minds and senses to deprive us of the very happiness. Pauline, for example, is struck in awe of Victoria, and Victoria knew that her family is orthodox, but she continued the same-sex relationship anyway, but when she feared exposition, she turned away. Such is the impact of societal patterns. And I'm not being judgmental here, mind you, I'm only pointing out to the vulnerability of humans to their own decisions, but that's how it goes, and will for decades, and there's no bettering that. Not everyone is a bloody heretic.I understand that this review is being very unconventional, so much so that you wouldn't call it a review at all, but believe me, the storyline, although lacking numerous editing and refinery skills, is just heart-rending, and deliberately and undeliberately, I'm forced to take this detour, and mostly as a catharsis. It has this conscientious impact on me, and, presumably, on all of us. Lost & Delirious is the perfect vow to castigation of the very phenomenon of "tranquility." Mary's dad didn't come to the school function, Paulie got f**ked by Tori, Mouse had blood rushing through her veins (probably from the third party's frolicking,) Miss Fay was over-dramatically sensual in her reading of plays, everyone else were the typical dumb and judgy freaks about how lesbian relationships are stains on society. This among several other things—probably "seven deadly sins"—is what Lost & Delirious devotes itself to. I'm not saying that there was nothing wrong with the movie, there sure was, but everything was in the execution and certainly not in the moralistic aspects of the movie itself. So that's the bottom-line: Despite the six, this easily stands as one of the most memorable experiences I've ever had.

RavenGlamDVDCollector Arguably the most beautiful girl on film ever: Mischa Barton, THE O.C. Well, if you disagree, kindly e-mail me the name of your contender. Chances are it might be Piper Perabo, COYOTE UGLY. Gee, here is a movie starring both of these two, they're very young, Piper just a year older, Mischa a couple of years away from her hit series. Not only do we have three very beautiful lead actresses, Jessica Paré being the third addition, we also have a beautifully filmed, sexy movie.Mary 'Mouse' Bedford arrives at boarding school. She is a sad, loner type, so come on! Mischa's miscast! :) She is quickly befriended by Victoria, played by Jessica Paré, who likens the group to The Lost Boys, only they are the Lost and Delirious Girls. The third member, Pauline, is the wild child, and Mouse quickly finds out that there is a blossoming girlie-love relationship there. All three have paternal issues, Pauline with her mother who abandoned her (and her cold adoptive mother doesn't make up for this), Tori with her mother who humiliated her over trivialities in front of strangers, and Mouse cannot get over the loss of her mother to cancer. There is a beautiful bitter-sweet close-up of Mischa breaking down at the memory of this, leading to the other girls declaring "Mouse is dead, your new name is Mary Brave". I absolutely loved the pillow fight scene, with Tori so totally coy. Mary, who comes from Rainy River, where everything is stuck in the Fifties, initially believes the two others are 'practicing for boys'. There is a beautifully- filmed girlie-love scene, quite wholesome in its innocence if you look at it objectively. Gloriously-formed natural breasts. When Tori has an open discussion with another girl in math class, her teacher, Eleanor, makes an example out of her by challenging her to complete the intricate problem on the blackboard in front of the class. This irks Paulie, and she clashes vehemently with the teacher. Next day they go out running in the woods, and find an injured falcon. Headstrong Pauline decides to take care of it. Mary finds solace in gardening, Paulie sneaks laboratory rats to her raptor in the woods. And then again climbs into bed with Tori, only to get caught out next morning when Allison, Tori's sister, and her chums come barging into the room. Tori is upset, for she knows Allison will go straight to Mummy and Daddy with this story. Now Tori avoids Paulie like the plague, despite the passionate outpourings regarding intense love. Paulie continues to take care of the raptor, and it's exactly what is bound to be the catalyst in her undoing. Paulie starts to relate to the raptor too much, seeing it as an extension of herself, or as a mirror to her shortcomings. Tori confides to Mary that she still loves Paulie, but that if she wishes to hang on to her parents' acceptance, she could never be the same goofy Tori again. Tori now finds a boyfriend and has sex up against a tree in the middle of the night, to witnessing Paulie's dismay. Mary remains a loyal friend to Paulie, despite rumors in school that she must be a lesbian as well then. Paulie points out succinctly that she is not so much a lesbian, she's just in love with Tori. There is something ominous about all that fencing, in which Paulie excels. She is becoming a bird of prey herself. Tragedy looms as cavalier Paulie challenges Tori's boyfriend to a duel. Anything more said would cause spoiling the surprise. And you do have to watch this one yourself. As the DVD box says, 5 stars. And what is perhaps the best love-making scene in mainstream filming history.I must say I expected a vastly different, if more predictable outcome. Suffice to say the surrealistic ending took me by complete surprise. But nobody could call it predictable. This is such a beautiful, gentle film, that the way I see it, the storyteller spares us the gruesome ending with this fly-away outcome. And that's not a spoiler, just enough to tell you the ending is very, very unusual.Definitely one of the best movies I've ever seen. Heart-felt, deep, tragic, ominous, engrossing, superb, awe- inspiring. I'd have been proud just to have been part of the creative process of this relatively- unknown (or at least overlooked) gem.By the way, the girl who plays Allison is REVENGE star Emily VanCamp back in her young days. Casting department outdid themselves.

Chrysanthepop I thought 'Lost and Delirious' would be about some spoilt teenage girls hooking up on sex, drugs and rock and roll. But, to my surprise, it was something else. It's about three school roommates. Two of them engage in a 'forbidden' relationship while the other confronts her own issues and narrates the story. 'Lost and Delirious' isn't an easy film to watch. I don't want to hand out any spoiler but I'll say that it truly sticks to the title and parts of it are disturbing. I did not like how the film was treated because had it not been for the music and Piper Perabo's acting, it would have felt like a TV movie. At times, the pace is painfully slow and some scenes seem pointless. Piper Perabo steals the show with her terrific portrayal of the emotionally tortured and abandoned Paulie. Mischa Barton looks uncomfortable (and she needs to eat) but does okay in a few scenes. The soundtrack is quite unusual. There is something captivating about it. I also liked the sequences with Paulie and the raptor that symbolized liberty. It is not an easy film to watch but tells an interesting story of rejected love.