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Electroshock therapy is not punishment. It is a psychiatric treatment reserved for people whose disorders are refractory to oral medication or who have very specific disorders (catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome or suicide ideation). It is not inhumane because it is done under sedation/anesthesia (it was done "awake" in the past because the anesthetics would prevent the efficient convulsions). Please do more research and don't spread misinformation about treatments that might save lives.
@@LeticiaAGentil How does electrocution help with suicidal ideation? Every Borderline sufferer thinks about it at least a few times a month but we don't always act on it so why should we be zapped? How would that make it stop?
It is very difficult for those who adhere to social norms and stereotypes to accept the freedom to be themselves that others have. I could be wrong but it seems to me that men obey orders more easily almost blindly than women. For women, you have to mold them from the time they are little. In any case humans are domesticated by themselves.
It's crazy that the marketing portrayed it as a feel good, coming of age romp, rather than a sombre drama about mental health. Angelina Jolie stated that she avoided Winona Ryder on the set, to make her role as Lisa feel more authentic.
"the truth doesn't necessarily dictate what people choose to believe about each other. Especially when it comes to people suffering from mental illness."
Brittany Murphy honestly should have been nominated for an Oscar for her powerful performance as the troubled Daisy. She's constantly bullied by Lisa, and is implied to be sexually abused by her father. Sadly, both Daisy and Murphy would die tragically young, in bathrooms.
I was 19 when this was released and it had a huge impact on me. Angelina Jolie was phenomenal as were all the actresses. I had a coat like that too. Thanks for reminding me!
@@MarkLaw13Extremely rude. You have no idea who the commenter was at 19 or what they were capable of understanding. Speak for yourself and yourself alone. Good day!
I used to watch girl interrupted all the time when i was a teenager it helped me while i was struggling with depression and my traumas i never read the book
Movies are quite sympathetic to strikingly beautiful white girls with mental health issue but much less so if the patients are not white, or not thin or beautiful or articulate.
The events take place in a *private* hospital located in New England during the **1960s**. It is heavily implied that most, if not all, patients comes from some amount of means in order to be there. So, YES, the women of the ward are going to be exclusively white. That's how tacit-class and institutional-racial segregation functions.
I have always loved the acting in this movie. I quote it a lot and I had it to watch in my psychology 101 class in college. I still struggle with my own depression and this makes me feel better.
There is a great line in the book that always stuck with me about being isolated and ill, which was, "From every window in Alcatraz, there is a view of San Francisco." Like, with depression and mental health, you are always aware of the world outside is still going on but don't have the ability to enjoy it. The thing that annoyed me from the book to the movie is that Lisa wasn't the "villain." She had her issues, but they were best friends in as much as you can be in hospital. There was no "night before release" threatening with a knife and screaming of "No-one cares about you because you are dead already." I know movie felt it was supposed to have some kind of action sequence, but the story in and of itself was strong enough to just end with her release. The random action just made it feel jarring and a mess.
I loved this movie when I was in my 20’s, but I never expected I was going to go through the same issues as Susana. I’m also diagnosed with BPD when I was in my thirties, and have been hospitalized a few times. And even though the movie can be exaggerated for dramatic purposes, you do find people like Lisa and worse in those places. I recommend reading the book, it’s more “slice of life” than the movie, and it gives you more depth into each patient Susana got to know in the hospital.
Crazy this show was set in the 60s but was pretty much my life from the age of 12 to 23 I watched h this and it almost brings back fond memories from childhood
It was a great movie mainly because of the actresses. As I’ve aged I have realized how much hormones really mess with our brains and emotions and when you compound that with abuse you have very broken young girls. As hormones wain and you delete abusive people and substances from your body, and death creeps ever so closer with each passing day, the closer you are to mental clarity and the happiness they are all so desperately seeking. In time….
Thank you for the rewatch tip! It's been ages since I've seen it, and it's left an impact on me then. Plus, I know exactly who I want to share it with.
I used to like this movie when I was younger, but the older I get the harder time I have watching it, seeing even the smallest positive spin being put on any kind of mental institution. Those places still treat people terribly, even today. I hate the “trust the system” message, because the system cannot and should not be trusted.
@nickybee7920 We don't have a Netflix account. My sister did; I don't know if she still does. When we went to Oregon for our vacation, I tried looking for it. It wasn't available😩. I will see it someday, that I know.
I was 25 when this movie came out. The time (90's 2000's) wasn't of great changes like they said, and I feel like these are things we are struggling with now. Power structures or those who are used to things being a certain way, will always push back when any group tries to assert for more respect and better treatment. Because they don't see what the big deal is. I struggle with the exact same dynamics now, and have seen so with other women i know. Nothing has changed, which has been dismaying, heart breaking, and disappointing. I wish it wasn't so. It should be different by now.😢 I feel children were misled in my generation, by misplaced optimism. Maybe that is part of the reason Gen x was so cynical to life once grown. Youth were told that told they can be anything, as if ignoring the limitations will create brave young adults that will knock the walls down. It would have been better to tell the truth, that way you have a better way of coping, or way of changing things for the future.
I have been put in a loony bin twice and each time I got out in record time, a week. The workers there are amazed. All you have to do is do what they say. They often they break laws and force you into things you don't want to do by threatening to put you in very uncomfortable situations. But, you do it or you seem like you do it and you get out. I actually dance and I had open space and nothing to do and would dance in the middle of the floor and a nurse or whatever noted that as if I was manic. I actually got out that time because the social worker came and I explained no I actually dance and did a 15 second dance for him maybe even and he looked it on and said oh you dance and sign me out.
I have BPD. I wasn't manic; I was just happy and, like the rest of my emotions, it was very expressive. I got there after having been in a different institution-not for mental health-and realized that I was going to be comfortable and able to eat, because at the time I was a vegetarian, and the other institution basically starved me. That was literally it. Plus, you give me any open space, whether it's a train station or my kitchen, and I'm probably going to dance in it. So, I was dancing. But while I was there, I did it honestly, unless I was in a space where I couldn't really see myself, because I wanted to leave, lol.
Being released usually has less to do with medical reasons and everything to do with insurance. They sent my son home, literally "actively hallucinating". They care about money not mental health. It really sucka when people waste their time and bed space when people who actually want help cant get it because someone is wasting time and space and resources.
This film had such a huge effect on me when I was 14, especially as I wasn't sure whether to try treatment for depression and was in denial about a bunch of other things at the time (like being a lesbian, but that's by far not the only thing). Watching this made me cry, makes me want to buy the film on Blu-ray instead of watching a grainy TV broadcast.
Thanks so much for watching! Which character in Girl, Interrupted do you relate to the most?
Up next, for something new, check out our video unpacking Amy Adam's new movie Nightbitch: ua-cam.com/video/K1xXOYwslNE/v-deo.html
And for another throwback, take a look at our recent video on Jennifer's Body: ua-cam.com/video/ZZrgXM5dhBo/v-deo.html
Electroshock therapy is not punishment. It is a psychiatric treatment reserved for people whose disorders are refractory to oral medication or who have very specific disorders (catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome or suicide ideation).
It is not inhumane because it is done under sedation/anesthesia (it was done "awake" in the past because the anesthetics would prevent the efficient convulsions).
Please do more research and don't spread misinformation about treatments that might save lives.
@@LeticiaAGentil How does electrocution help with suicidal ideation? Every Borderline sufferer thinks about it at least a few times a month but we don't always act on it so why should we be zapped? How would that make it stop?
It is very difficult for those who adhere to social norms and stereotypes to accept the freedom to be themselves that others have. I could be wrong but it seems to me that men obey orders more easily almost blindly than women. For women, you have to mold them from the time they are little. In any case humans are domesticated by themselves.
It's crazy that the marketing portrayed it as a feel good, coming of age romp, rather than a sombre drama about mental health. Angelina Jolie stated that she avoided Winona Ryder on the set, to make her role as Lisa feel more authentic.
If it was too depressing it wouldn't be marketable to a wider audience.
"the truth doesn't necessarily dictate what people choose to believe about each other. Especially when it comes to people suffering from mental illness."
Brittany Murphy honestly should have been nominated for an Oscar for her powerful performance as the troubled Daisy. She's constantly bullied by Lisa, and is implied to be sexually abused by her father. Sadly, both Daisy and Murphy would die tragically young, in bathrooms.
I was 19 when this was released and it had a huge impact on me. Angelina Jolie was phenomenal as were all the actresses. I had a coat like that too. Thanks for reminding me!
This film is too deep to understand by a 19 year old. You ain't that bright no offense.
@@MarkLaw13did you get triggered there, incel ?
@@MarkLaw13Why are you being rude and abusive?
@@cethomas324 Just being truthful. This film is too deep to be understood by a 19 year old.
Nothing rude about it.
@@MarkLaw13Extremely rude. You have no idea who the commenter was at 19 or what they were capable of understanding. Speak for yourself and yourself alone. Good day!
I used to watch girl interrupted all the time when i was a teenager it helped me while i was struggling with depression and my traumas i never read the book
I've only read the book. Worth reading.
Movies are quite sympathetic to strikingly beautiful white girls with mental health issue but much less so if the patients are not white, or not thin or beautiful or articulate.
Can you recommend some movies with mentally ill WoC in psychiatric hospitals
@@AdaBlack-w7l I mean mpvies are typically written in a three-act structure lol
Accurate!
yup
The events take place in a *private* hospital located in New England during the **1960s**. It is heavily implied that most, if not all, patients comes from some amount of means in order to be there. So, YES, the women of the ward are going to be exclusively white. That's how tacit-class and institutional-racial segregation functions.
I have always loved the acting in this movie. I quote it a lot and I had it to watch in my psychology 101 class in college. I still struggle with my own depression and this makes me feel better.
There is a great line in the book that always stuck with me about being isolated and ill, which was, "From every window in Alcatraz, there is a view of San Francisco." Like, with depression and mental health, you are always aware of the world outside is still going on but don't have the ability to enjoy it.
The thing that annoyed me from the book to the movie is that Lisa wasn't the "villain." She had her issues, but they were best friends in as much as you can be in hospital. There was no "night before release" threatening with a knife and screaming of "No-one cares about you because you are dead already." I know movie felt it was supposed to have some kind of action sequence, but the story in and of itself was strong enough to just end with her release. The random action just made it feel jarring and a mess.
I loved this movie when I was in my 20’s, but I never expected I was going to go through the same issues as Susana. I’m also diagnosed with BPD when I was in my thirties, and have been hospitalized a few times. And even though the movie can be exaggerated for dramatic purposes, you do find people like Lisa and worse in those places.
I recommend reading the book, it’s more “slice of life” than the movie, and it gives you more depth into each patient Susana got to know in the hospital.
The book was really good. It filled in pieces that were missing.
I watched this at way too young of an age and have loved it in every stage of my life as a now 33 year old.
As someone with BPD seeing this movie made me feel so seen
This movie holds a warm place in my heart. I watched it when I was a teen and it became a companion of sorts.
Brittany Murphy… 😭😭😭
Crazy this show was set in the 60s but was pretty much my life from the age of 12 to 23 I watched h this and it almost brings back fond memories from childhood
I've been watching this film since I was a teenage girl, and this film will remain in my top favorite 10 films.
Me too 💖
It was a great movie mainly because of the actresses. As I’ve aged I have realized how much hormones really mess with our brains and emotions and when you compound that with abuse you have very broken young girls. As hormones wain and you delete abusive people and substances from your body, and death creeps ever so closer with each passing day, the closer you are to mental clarity and the happiness they are all so desperately seeking. In time….
Thank you for the rewatch tip! It's been ages since I've seen it, and it's left an impact on me then. Plus, I know exactly who I want to share it with.
could we please have a colab of you with cinema therapy
you're literally like internet moms
and thier internet dads
I used to like this movie when I was younger, but the older I get the harder time I have watching it, seeing even the smallest positive spin being put on any kind of mental institution. Those places still treat people terribly, even today. I hate the “trust the system” message, because the system cannot and should not be trusted.
I wanna see this movie so bad, especially because of Brittany Murphy😭😭😭😭
It’s on Netflix
@nickybee7920 We don't have a Netflix account. My sister did; I don't know if she still does. When we went to Oregon for our vacation, I tried looking for it. It wasn't available😩. I will see it someday, that I know.
They were all good, but Jolie blew it out of the water.
One of my faves. Although I recently read The Bell Jar and I think the author is strongly based on it (and in her own experience)
Third place 🥉 thanks 🙏🏻 for covering this.
melhor canal ❤
I was 25 when this movie came out. The time (90's 2000's) wasn't of great changes like they said, and I feel like these are things we are struggling with now. Power structures or those who are used to things being a certain way, will always push back when any group tries to assert for more respect and better treatment. Because they don't see what the big deal is. I struggle with the exact same dynamics now, and have seen so with other women i know. Nothing has changed, which has been dismaying, heart breaking, and disappointing. I wish it wasn't so. It should be different by now.😢 I feel children were misled in my generation, by misplaced optimism. Maybe that is part of the reason Gen x was so cynical to life once grown. Youth were told that told they can be anything, as if ignoring the limitations will create brave young adults that will knock the walls down. It would have been better to tell the truth, that way you have a better way of coping, or way of changing things for the future.
Empathy, we dont know the true meaning. Said my hubby who is a psychiatrist. We can all help each other.
😮 the movie tharñt gives Jolie an Oscar😊
Amazing film!
I have been put in a loony bin twice and each time I got out in record time, a week. The workers there are amazed. All you have to do is do what they say. They often they break laws and force you into things you don't want to do by threatening to put you in very uncomfortable situations. But, you do it or you seem like you do it and you get out.
I actually dance and I had open space and nothing to do and would dance in the middle of the floor and a nurse or whatever noted that as if I was manic. I actually got out that time because the social worker came and I explained no I actually dance and did a 15 second dance for him maybe even and he looked it on and said oh you dance and sign me out.
I have BPD. I wasn't manic; I was just happy and, like the rest of my emotions, it was very expressive. I got there after having been in a different institution-not for mental health-and realized that I was going to be comfortable and able to eat, because at the time I was a vegetarian, and the other institution basically starved me. That was literally it. Plus, you give me any open space, whether it's a train station or my kitchen, and I'm probably going to dance in it. So, I was dancing. But while I was there, I did it honestly, unless I was in a space where I couldn't really see myself, because I wanted to leave, lol.
Being released usually has less to do with medical reasons and everything to do with insurance. They sent my son home, literally "actively hallucinating". They care about money not mental health. It really sucka when people waste their time and bed space when people who actually want help cant get it because someone is wasting time and space and resources.
Polly didn’t burn herself???!
Lets gooo
It's deeper because these girls grew up in Hollywood experiencing the deepest darkness of lucifarian rituals that people ignore.
Eggnog
The anti-psychiatry undertones of your analysis are sorta disappointing but okay
It’s one of my favorite movies because it really shows how mental health was stigmatized for young women
This film had such a huge effect on me when I was 14, especially as I wasn't sure whether to try treatment for depression and was in denial about a bunch of other things at the time (like being a lesbian, but that's by far not the only thing).
Watching this made me cry, makes me want to buy the film on Blu-ray instead of watching a grainy TV broadcast.
It’s one of my favorite movies because it really shows how mental health was stigmatized for young women