"But you can almost feel Mangold's panic when he feels the story might be losing steam: It wouldn't have been enough just to have the girls interacting with each other during their commitment; they have to have adventures, too. And Ryder, whose performance consists almost solely of turning on that wide-eyed, bewildered-doe look, gets her big moment in an embarrassingly overplayed scene where she confronts Nurse Whoopi with a flurry of heartless, nasty insults."
I agree with some of these comments, in the part where they say most of the movie is shown with the girls communicating, and that there should have been a little bit more adventure. Because, having read the book, it seems like more action happened, while in the movie mostly Lisa did the action. However, I disagree with the "overplayed scene" because the girls are supposed to be portrayed as lunatics, so that's how the event should take place.
"But "Girl, Interrupted" is always worth watching when Angelina Jolie steps to the fore. Somehow, she takes a thuddingly ill-conceived role and turns it into gold: Lisa is the bruised and beautiful troubled doll who's unfailingly charismatic (when she lifts a cigarette to her lips, a nurse stands at the ready with a lighter), the restless girl who's always trying to escape from the confines of the hospital, who blurts out the blunt observations no one wants to hear"
I agree with this critic, Angelina Jolie's character as Lisa is what leads the other girls to do most of what they did. She was the crazy one, escaping and telling Susanna how to do things. At the point where Daisy hung herself, Lisa just went took her money and left. She didn't care that Daisy had killed herself.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/dvd/review/2000/10/03/girl_interrupted
"The main problem with the film is that it looks like it started out as an ensemble picture and then ended up as a star vehicle for Ryder and Jolie. The brief sketches of the other girls who live in the institution scream for more attention: There's a pathological liar obsessed with the "Wizard of Oz," one who tried to burn her face off and another who is a (presumably) perfectly sane lesbian who has been shut away because she likes women."
I agree with this comment, the film starts with a picture of something dark, and at the end Susanna is on the cab leaving the hospital. The film also portrays the main characters exactly as shown in the movie.
"he tried to use "The Wizard of Oz" as a model to get away from traditional nut house dramas like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and how he had his production department tie leaves to trees in order to make the seasons change outside the grim institution."
I also noticed the Wizard of Oz come into play when Georgina was reading the book. Also, theres a few camera shot in which it starts up at the trees and goes down to the hospital, same way when Susanna was leaving her home she looked back and saw her mom through an angle of two trees. Same when she was leaving the hospital, from the back window of the cab there were the images of trees.
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