Girl Interrupted

Watching this movie gave me many different feelings. I didn't find the fact that she was an aspiring writer a crucial point to the plot, but it did help relate the movie to course material. I had a lot of anxiety sitting through that movie because my best friend's Dad hung himself over the summer. It was hard to see Lucy hanging in the bedroom and not break into tears for what my friend had to find in her very own home. With that being said, it made the movie more real for me. Many times I will see a movie like that and almost convince myself that there aren't actually people in the world that are clinically crazy.

I feel like the fact that she is a girl, interrupted is important. She is not possessed or a murderer. She is simply a 19 year old girl who has had a lot of struggles in her life and can't quite deal with them. Obviously we saw in the movie that she figures things out, is able to admit that she attempted to kill herself, and move on with her life as a girl. 

The girl who says 'good thing this place works on a sliding scale so that the lock picking trash is also admitted', I believe is saying that since the girl  knows how to pick locks, she is poor. One would assume she has committed crime such as breaking and entering or stealing. Other class tensions arose with Lucy and her "Daddy". He bought her an apartment of her own and some of the other girls were jealous. Also, the family of Susanna were embarrassed that their daughter wouldn't be home in time for their cocktail party they were hosting over Christmas.

When you look up the word ambivalent in the thesaurus, many words stick out to me that can be tagged to Susanna's behavior. For example: unsure, doubtful, torn, and of two minds. Through out the movie we watched her struggle with the idea of her being crazy or not. Sometimes she fought the system and didn't think she should be in there, while other times she thought she was jut as crazy as everyone else.