Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
by James Mangold, Lisa Loomer, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Susanna Kaysen
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Author: Anna Hamilton Phelan, James Mangold, Lisa Loomer, Susanna KaysenEdition: Paperback
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Published: 2000-04-30
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 167
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Book Reviews of Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
Book Review: Chase Von, The Last Panther's Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Having PTSD myself from Wars and other things, I thought this was a great movie! I didn't read the book first however and normally I do but from what I gather the movie in this instance was much better than the book...
I have read One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and in many ways this reminded me of that, only in the setting of a female dominated one vice a male one....
Maybe in the future if time permits I will read the book itself to see if the movie which I have already seen and truly thought was great stacks up...
If not...
It was that book which inspired the movie and it's a great movie...
And mental illness isn't just something that people are born with, some times they receive it through traumatic experiences such as tragedies or war or the like...
In my opinion it is something that really needs to be given far more attention than it is receiving and this movie sheds light on it like few have...
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Summary of Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant.
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