Essay On Girl Interrupted

When I was fourteen years old, freshly diagnosed with depression, and trying to navigate some “new” life I found myself with a film copy of Girl, Interrupted. By the end of the movie, I realized that I had never felt so connected to something in my life. Little did I know, no matter the ending, happy or sad, the lives of main characters Lisa and Susanna weren't ideal in the slightest. In fact, more than anything, they were terrifying and beautiful all at the same time aka what I thought was every “damaged” boy’s dream. I thought that when I found this movie under the search tab “movies for depressed girls,” I was going to find peace and for a short while I did, but it was no reality for me and in turn, became a fantasy. I was not alone in the search for solace in Angelia Jolie and Winona Ryder because when I took a look around, every single girl I knew, was looking for it in them too. Whether it was a diagnoses, a reason, or even inspiration, we …show more content…
The writers of the film took the idea of the “damaged girl” and ran with it because they knew that every fourteen year old girl, thinking they’re fat and ugly, would aspire to be like the characters. It’s some way of self expression through mental illness made beautiful where women, no matter the age, can dig up some part of themselves. The romanticism of mental illness in the film create some sort if safe space for people to fall in love with the characters and the sickness. It’s the attitude of the “incurable” or more romantically, the “forever.” The mere fact of who is playing out damsels in distress is proof enough as to how the movie romanticizes. When we can only see people in one light I.e. on the cover of People Magazine or staring in films where they’re made to be unlike the characters they play, it sometimes