Girl, Interrupted (1999)

beautiful team!

Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder make a beautiful team in this psycho movie! They act amazingly in this and so convincing! You feel the pain and the torture they are going through to understand their lives! Enjoy this movie with an open heart! October 9, 2008

Girl, Interrupted

It was an interesting movie, however I was looking for something which more was more educational reguarding Borderline Personalities. Fun Viewing, though. October 3, 2008

A Cautionary Tale of Insanity and Adolescence

"In 1969 the wild ones went to Woodstock; the unlucky ones went to war but if you didn't know where you were going, they sent you to Claymoore." Such was the provocative opening to the theatrical trailer for the film "Girl, Interrupted". This short narrative, however, sets the tone and scene for the world in which 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen struggles to cope with both the mental illness she fights to understand and the world around her which refuses to acknowledge the fight she is waging.

Based on the personal memoir of Susanna Kaysen, "Girl, Interrupted" invites audiences into the bizarre and absurdly funny worlds of mental illness and psychiatric treatment viewed through the psychedelic lens of the late Sixties, a time when some could argue that the world outside of a mental institution was no different than the world within one. Providing viewers with more than just a period piece of a nation wrought with war, social revolution and a drug-induced counter-culture, this Academy Award-winning film is in a class of its own, leading viewers through a heartbreaking journey of self-discovery and self-evaluation, all the while, acquiring an eclectic host of friends and experiences which ultimately shape the process and outcome of that journey. If anything it is a message for adolescents who struggle to find their identity at a pivotal time when being a teenager often means, quite ironically, proving you are an individual by copying everything your friends do. The final narrative of the theatrical trailer puts it into perspective and puts it best, "Sometimes you don't know how to fit in until you find a way to break out."
September 19, 2008

Not crazy to love this !!!

Girl, Interrupted

I first saw this movie back in 2002 on a free VCD I had got. I remember buying it simply because Winona Ryder was in it, not knowing anything about the movie at all. At that first viewing it was pretty shocking and I put it away not to see it for a second time until today.

It is a wonderful movie, describing the anguish of a group of females in their youth, in a mental institution; particularly that of the narrator and protagonist Susanna Kaysen. She is in here because she had a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. She wasn't suicidal, just had a headache and so disagrees with the opinion of being in a mental institute for this act.

In here she meets a group of misfits, women young mostly with whom she interacts and befriends. Apparently she did not have many young friends in school and is the only female in her class not going on to college. She wants to be a writer and I personally could associate with her trauma relating to the world and the way people chose to identify with this world. If you liked movies about troubled youth such as Gus Van Sant's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Van_Sant Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester or Ron Howard's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Howard_(director) A Beautiful Mind, then you would certainly appreciate this masterpiece and the story is true.

Yes, during the end credits I noticed that the movie is based on a novel by a person named Susanna. Then I looked at my VCD cover and saw "Based on a True Story" stamp on it. So now I am hunting for the novel version which seems more interesting than this movie, which I don't know whether that's possible. Anyways, this story is not about youth or a boring lecture on mental healthcare. It is about Susanna and her diagnosis and how she deals with it. She becomes good friends with a few of the characters in the mental ward and also with one nurse Valerie who is played well here by Whoopi Goldberg. The author Susanna criticised the movie though for fictional scenes added to the movie, but as a movie it is quite thrilling to watch as it is. But it has made me curious to hear the original tale as told by the author Susanna in her novel of the same name.

All in all a refreshing movie and quite possibly the only one starring Angelina Jolie that I have liked. She won many awards for this role, all the top 3 - Academy, Screen and Golden Globe.

I can't imagine any other actress than Winona Ryder in that role as Susanna and she really should have got more recognition than she did for this and other movies.

Quote: "Crazy isn't about being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you, or me, Amplified..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Kaysen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl,_Interrupted_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl,_Interrupted
September 14, 2008

Movie, Excellent

"Girl, Interrupted" is the story of Susanna (Winona Ryder), a troubled teen who ends up in a mental institution following a botched suicide attempt. Based on a true story, this film is very similar to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," expect for the fact that Susanna is self-committed and this movie has a relatively happy ending. There are a number of stellar performances in this film, and although Ryder was given top billing, Angelina Jolie steals the show as Lisa, a disturbed patient, the role which ultimately won Jolie an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It's intense, dramatic, and jarring, and the cast is superb, with the exception of Whoopi Goldberg, who is just sort of floating around the hospital playing a nurse. Still, "Girl, Interrupted" is definitely worth seeing. July 31, 2008

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