Girl, Interrupted

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Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 film based on the novel Girl, Interrupted by w:Susanna Kaysen, about her experiences in a psychiatric hospital.

Directed by James Mangold. Novel written by Susanna Kaysen, and screenplay also by James Mangold.
Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy taglines

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[edit] Susanna

  • (narrating) Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl...interrupted.
  • I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.
  • When you don't want to feel, death can seem like a dream. But seeing death - really seeing it - makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous.
  • Maybe everyone out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is stupid and ignorant. But I'd rather be in it. I'd rather be fucking in it, than down here with you.
  • No one cares if you die, Lisa, because you're dead already. Your heart is cold. That's why you keep coming back here. You're not free. You need this place to feel alive. It's pathetic.
  • Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever..
Dr. Crumble: Susanna, four days ago, you chased a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka.

[edit] Lisa

  • Some advice, okay? Just don't point your fuckin' finger at crazy people!
  • You think you're free? I'm free! You don't know what freedom is! I'm free. I can breathe. And you will choke on your average fuckin' mediocre life!
  • Razors pain you, Rivers are damp/ Acid stains you, Drugs cause cramp / Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give / Gas smells awful, Ya might as well live.

[edit] Dialogue

Susanna: What the fuck are you doing, Lisa?
Lisa: Playing the villain, baby, just like you want. I try to give you everything you want.
Susanna: No you don't.
Lisa: You wanted your file, I found you your file. You wanted out, I got you out. You needed money, I found you some. I'm fucking consistent. I told you the truth. I didn't write it down in a fucking book! I told you to your face. And I told Daisy to her face - what everybody knew and wouldn't say, and she killed herself. And I played the fucking villain, just like you wanted.
Susanna: Why would I want that?
Lisa: Because it makes you the good guy, sweet pea.
Lisa: Yeah, well that's what ther-rape-me's all about. That's why fuckin' Freud's pictures on every shrink's wall. He created a fuckin' industry. You lie down, you confess your secrets and you're saved. Ca-ching! The more you confess, the more they think about settin' you free.
Susanna: But what if you don't have a secret?
Lisa: Then you're a lifer, like me.
Valerie: Did you enjoy the fresh air, Lisa?
Lisa: Yeah I did, Val. Thanks.
Valerie: Good, 'cause it's the last time you're leaving the ward.
Lisa: Is that a dare or a double dare?
Lisa: You know, there's too many buttons in the world. There's too many buttons and they're just - there's way too many just begging to be pressed, they're just begging to be pressed, you know? They're just - they're just begging to be pressed! And it makes me wonder, it really makes me fucking wonder, why doesn't anyone ever press mine? Why am I so neglected? Why doesn't anyone reach in and rip out the truth and tell me that I'm a fucking whore, or that my parents wish I were dead?
Susanna: Because you're dead already, Lisa!
Lisa: Take one fuckin' step and I'll jam this in my aorta.
[aiming a pen at her neck]
Valerie: Lisa, your aorta is in your chest.
Lisa: [snaps the pen closed] Good to know.

[edit] Taglines

  • Based on a true story.
  • The crazy thing is, you're not crazy.
  • Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

[edit] Cast

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