I think in reality it's really a little more complicated than that.Īnd then, after everyone found out, I was told that I shouldn't talk about it.
Diary of a teenage girl movie#
In that sense, Minnie's hyper-sexuality is kind of simplified and interpreted by people who see the movie as a typical, highly sexually charged girl. I've read descriptions of the film where people say, "Oh, it's such a great representation of girl sexuality." The weird thing is that the movie doesn't really show Minnie as this kid who has this damaged past. But I really felt like she kept the spirit of the girl. It leaves out a whole lot in terms of drugs Minnie is not going out or fucking strangers in the park, you know? It doesn't have that kind of stuff. It focuses on the relationship between the girl and her mother and the boyfriend. As far as how the movie came out, ultimately, I think it carries a lot of the spirit of the book. But Marielle-I always felt she was relating to the book for the reasons I'd hope anyone would. One director had wanted to change the ending entirely so that Minnie married her mom's boyfriend that felt to me that he was just focusing on her sexuality, kind of in a fetishistic way. I read an interview where you said you had resisted other directors because you didn't agree with their visions for the film. She's kind of a wild and crazy kid herself, which is a challenge, but I don't know if it has much to do with the book. 16 now, and she tells me she really admires me and that it's a great book and her friends all love it. But the younger one did when she was much younger-I didn't know about it. I always said they couldn't read my work until they were 15 or 16, and the older one didn't. They have both of them are extras on the film as well.
But if I thought about them too much I was getting horrified, so I couldn't do that at that time. They were always kind of in the back of my mind. When I was writing that, one was eight or nine the other was four or five.ĭid you ever make connections between your past and your own kids? Is it difficult to imagine them doing the kinds of things you did? Had you had your daughters by that point? I had to somehow learn to love her, which kind of forced me to separate myself from her. I hated myself as a teenager, like many teenagers do, and I couldn't hate Minnie in order to write the book. I couldn't see myself as Minnie because, when I tried to do that, I couldn't write the book. In the end I didn't care about the facts-it's more the emotional truth of the story. I wrote so much that most of was subtractive, editing it as if I were Minnie, but spelled better. (Though it's hard to say whether an age-appropriate girl who more-or-less pimps Minnie out for smack is a better match for the funny, perceptive anti-heroine.) The relationship-coupled with her mother's bored neglect, of the type often seen in parenting clichés of the 1970s-seems to spark something in Minnie, who goes on to get kicked out of several boarding schools, do a lot of drugs, and fall in love again.
Diary of a teenage girl series#
Absolutely not to be confused with the series of Christian YA books of the same name, Gloeckner's autobiographical Diary an unapologetic chronicle of the year in the life of Minnie Goetze, a sex-loving, school-hating 15-year-old who embarks on a secret relationship with her mother's boyfriend Monroe after she loses her virginity to him. But Phoebe Gloeckner's book The Diary of a Teenage Girl has been challenging that notion since it was published in 2002, to cult-y acclaim from feminists as well as comic lovers.
Making jokes at the expense of teens is so trendy, it's easy to forget they're actually people.
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