Comments on: 916. Gregory’s Girl (1981, Bill Forsyth)

By: Girl Games

Girl Games — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:30:00 +0000

Wonderful images and video The film is structured around inversions and reversals, children act like adults, younger siblings act like older ones, But the most important of these is the reversal of gender roles. The only characters that are confident,

By: Car Games

Car Games — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:29:42 +0000

This coming of age sex comedy movie not only focuses on the sexual aspects, but the morality of teenage lives. It covers a variety of topics, that will surely strike even the hardest of hearts.

By: Medela

Medela — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:27:14 +0000

GREGORY'S GIRL is a charming, innocent, very funny little movie about the weird kid. It is set in Scotland, where the teenagers are quieter, more civilized and more naive than, let's say, those in CLASS OF 1984. And it is about Gregory (Gordon John Sinclair), a gangling adolescent who has started to shoot up all of a sudden and finds he is hopelessly uncoordinated on the soccer field. Gregory looks sort of like an immensely likable stork. He loses his place on the soccer team to another student who is a good deal faster and more coordinated. The other student happens to be a girl. Her name is Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), and Gregory instantly falls deeply in love with her. Nothing like this has ever hit him before, and romance becomes for him almost a physical illness. Dorothy is sweet to him, but distant, because she not only suspects Gregory's feelings but is way ahead of him in her analysis of the whole situation.
The movie takes place mostly in a pleasant suburb of Glasgow, where the kids hang about and trade endless speculation on the impossibility of being sixteen and happy at the same time. Gregory turns for romantic advice to his younger sister, who is much more interested in ice cream. His sister, in fact, is oblivious to boys, although one pays her an earnest compliment: “She's only ten, but she has the body of a woman of thirteen.” Meanwhile, Gregory consoles his best friend, who is fifteen and a half and has never known love.
This movie is a reminder that we tend to forget a lot of things about adolescence. For example: That it is no use telling a teenager what his faults are, because he is painfully aware of every possible fault in the minutest detail; that boys are absolutely helpless in the throes of teenage romance, whereas girls tend to retain at least some perspective; that it is an unwritten law of the universe that no sixteen-year-old ever falls instantly in love with the right person at the right time.
The movie has a lot of gentle, civilized fun with insights like that. And along the way, Gregory the stork is led on a wild goose chase with a swan at the end. The movie contains so much wisdom about being alive and teenaged and vulnerable that maybe it would even be painful for a teenager to see it; it's not much help, when you're suffering from those feelings of low self-esteem and an absolutely hopeless crush, to realize that not only are you in pain and suffering an emotional turmoil, but you're not even unique. Maybe only grown-ups should see this movie. You know, people who have gotten over the pains of unrequited love (hollow laugh).

By: SLR Camera

SLR Camera — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:54:37 +0000

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fetish clothes — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:52:33 +0000

This coming of age sex comedy movie not only focuses on the sexual aspects, but the morality of teenage lives. It covers a variety of topics, that will surely strike even the hardest of hearts.

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boston moving labor — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:27:52 +0000

That movie is nice, even if you just watch its trailer..

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Gregory's girl is a very remarkable, coming-of-age sex comedy. Highly recommended for adolescents and to those who are nearing it.

By: Saint Subversive

Saint Subversive — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:51:57 +0000

Luke: I think it probably is inspired by A Midsummer's Night Dream to some extent, especially since Andy is actually reading from that play in class (and hilariously, refuses to stop until the teacher finally throws a book at him in frustration). A bit of ironic coincidence: the reviewer mentions “Porky's” in the article as a possible influence (which, again, is impossible since GG was completely and released before Porky's). In the sequel, “Porky's II: The Next Day”, the kids were doing a “tribute to Shakespeare” that included PeeWee playing Puck in “Midsummer”. Other than that, comparing the two films is like comparing “Jungle Book” to “Fritz the Cat” just because both of them have animated animals.

By: Saint Subversive

Saint Subversive — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:43:56 +0000

I think you really missed it on this one. Gregory's Girl is a wonderful film that Ive watched many times over the decades. It's so innocent in tone that if it were released today, it would probably get a G rating except for a few comical used of the word “tits”, including in the very innocuous opening scene that you apparently found so “vulgar”. By the way, it would be impossible for that sequence to be “cribbed from Porky's”, as GG was released in 1981, and Porky's in 1982.

As for the dubbing, I much prefer the American version over the original Scottish version. I know that dubbing is supposed to be a big evil, but the way its done in Gregory's Girl adds to the film's charm and innocence. I never even realized that it wasnt the original vocal track until the DVD release.

By: Detektiv

Detektiv — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:51:47 +0000

I can't say enough about Gregory’s Girl