User:Elyonn/Girl Interrupted Mental Disorders in Popular Film: How Hollywood Uses, Shames, and Obscures, Erin Heath

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Summary

Girl,  Interrupted is a drama set in the 60s about a Girl, interrupted from her own life. She tries to commit suicide and is rushed to the hospital. Later she is committed into an institution against her will by her parents. Played by Winona Ryder / susanna

The movie is Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s. While in the institution Susanna learns she has Borderline Personality Disorder, which she is diagnosed with.

She is also able to hold 2 distinct romantic/emotional relationships and she is also a writer.

Impending Questions

Why did the doctor Melvin hide her diagnosis from her initially but tell her parents? Why did he say her knowledge of it does not benefit her ?

Why is Polly’s character, played by Elizabeth moss played by a non disabled character, alongside a large percentage/ all of the cast?

While everyone that has been admitted appears to be labeled as many things that classify them as “mentally unstable”, they also very much appear to be sane. The lines between sane and insane are so easily blurred, is there a true difference between either? While Susanna is speaking to her doctor melvin, she calls the rest of the patients “fucking crazy” and that she does not belong with them however her parents and the doctor think otherwise, and soon she also realizes that she’s not much different than them.

Should institutionalization be forced? Lisa calls Therapy- The-rapey which is a play on words insinuating that the therapy they are forced to undergo in the institution feels like rape (psychological) and says the more a person divulges their secrets, the more likely they would be considered for release. However on the flip side for people like Susana and Lisa who claim to have no secrets the option of release seems oblique.

Characters

Susanna

Daisy the laxative junkie

Lisa

Georgina the pathological liar