The movie Girl Interrupted directed by James Mangold is based on a book written by Susanna Kaysen with the same title. Girl Interrupted is a movie that provides the viewer an objective and in-depth look at the downside borderline depression and lots of mental illness that Americans battle daily confused, insecure, and lost within a rapidly changing world. The movie depicts Susanna the main character as an unsympathetic teenager just out of high school that does not have a clue as to what she is feeling, or where she is going in life. She is having premarital sex and does not enter college like most of her peers at that time. The beginning of the movie, Susanna starts to ask a series of questions’ “Have you ever confused a dream with life
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The knowledge shape by the character is that she seem to know what is going on around her one example is that when she told the lady in the office she just don’t want to end up like her mother (16:14 25) being pressure by those around her demands of what they want of her put Susanna in a state of sadness and somehow depress of the fact she can’t seem to find happiness. “ Girl, Interrupted'' presents a meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time in and place where the era's combustible social stresses drove sensitive young women like Susanna into states of flailing desperation” ( Stephen Holden; nytimes.com) ‘One problem is the ambivalent nature of Susanna's condition ("ambivalent" is one of her favorite words). She isn't disturbed enough to require treatment, but she becomes strangely absorbed inside Claymore, as if it provides structure and entertainment she misses on the outside” (Roger Ebert; rogerebert.com). The one time the women felt free was when they sneak to go bowling and they excitement of not being under anyone …show more content…
Review of “Girl, Interrupted”, directed by James Mangold nytimes.com/movie review, 21 December 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review . Accessed 29 November 2016.
Ebert, Roger. Review of “Girl, Interrupted”, directed by James Mangold. rogerebert.com, 14 January 2000, http:// http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/girl-interrupted. Accessed 29 November 2016.
Meadows, Amy. Review “Girl, Interrupted”, directed by James Mangold. tech.mit.edu, 19 January 2000, http://tech.mit.edu . Issue: 68, Volume 119. Accessed 29 November 2016.
“Girl, Interrupted”, Directed by James Mangold , performances by Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elizabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg.
The knowledge shape by the character is that she seem to know what is going on around her one example is that when she told the lady in the office she just don’t want to end up like her mother (16:14 25) being pressure by those around her demands of what they want of her put Susanna in a state of sadness and somehow depress of the fact she can’t seem to find happiness. “ Girl, Interrupted'' presents a meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time in and place where the era's combustible social stresses drove sensitive young women like Susanna into states of flailing desperation” ( Stephen Holden; nytimes.com) ‘One problem is the ambivalent nature of Susanna's condition ("ambivalent" is one of her favorite words). She isn't disturbed enough to require treatment, but she becomes strangely absorbed inside Claymore, as if it provides structure and entertainment she misses on the outside” (Roger Ebert; rogerebert.com). The one time the women felt free was when they sneak to go bowling and they excitement of not being under anyone …show more content…
Review of “Girl, Interrupted”, directed by James Mangold nytimes.com/movie review, 21 December 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review . Accessed 29 November 2016.
Ebert, Roger. Review of “Girl, Interrupted”, directed by James Mangold. rogerebert.com, 14 January 2000, http:// http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/girl-interrupted. Accessed 29 November 2016.
Meadows, Amy. Review “Girl, Interrupted”, directed by James Mangold. tech.mit.edu, 19 January 2000, http://tech.mit.edu . Issue: 68, Volume 119. Accessed 29 November 2016.
“Girl, Interrupted”, Directed by James Mangold , performances by Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elizabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg.