movies about crazy people are either really entertaining or just laundry list of facts.
"girl, interrupted" was that happy medium of bringing awareness to mental illness and still being a great film to indulge in.
i had seen the film before, multiple times even. but there was something about watching it this time that put everything in perspective for me.
it stars some of the nineties great actresses: winona ryder, angelina jolie, brittany murphy (in probably my favorite role of hers), clea duvall, and whoopi goldberg as valerie, the mother superior figure of any mental hospital: the head RN.
"girl, interrupted" is the story of susanna kaysen (winona ryder) and her trials at the claymoore mental hospital after she checks herself in after a botched suicide attempt. here, susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and spends her time figuring out what this means; befriending a sociopathic lisa (angelina jolie), who takes her under her wing. susanna becomes dependent on lisa, and agrees to go to flee the hospital and go to florida to get jobs at disney world. while, on route, they visit a former patient, daisy (brittany murphy). daisy, often cold and abrupt, seems happy in her newfound freedom. lisa uses this as a tactic to bring up the truth about daisy: bulimic, obsessive-compulsive, incestuous. the next day, daisy hangs herself and when susanna witnesses lisa's disdain for the death, she heads back to the hospital on her own.
watching "girl, interrupted" stirred up thoughts of my own mental illness; thoughts i usually try to black out.
can one truly overcome their illness?
get over it?
deal with it?
jas
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