Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty is an interesting coming of age film, focused around a 19-year-old girl, Lucy Harmon. However, many argue that, while Lucy can be seen as the main character of the film, she also seems to be a "catalyst" for the other characters of the film, rather than a strong main character. As Lucy develops as a young woman, some may view her role to be more important as a character who helps those around her develop and grow, maybe even without them realizing. Her youthfulness and beauty are major factors that play a key role in influencing those around her realize things about themselves, that, in some cases, put them at peace with the negative future they are guaranteed to experience. Lucy herself, is on a journey to find the boy in which she thinks she loves, and wishes to lose her virginity to, as well as discover the meaning behind her late mothers poem and find her father in Italy. The ending of the film is very different from the previous films that we have watched, for everything that is problematic for the main character at the beginning of the film is resolved at the end, which is uncommon for Italian films. I found this to be very surprising when watching the film, as well as quite interesting. In conclusion, I enjoyed this film, and was intrigued by the fact that it was more similar to a Hollywood film in the sense that the ending gave us a clear-cut conclusion, however it also had the feeling of an Italian film, that the average American viewer may not feel comfortable with when first watching this film.