For this paper I chose to watch Girl, Interrupted. This film, to me, is wonderful, and I will proceed to tell you why I think so too. I will also explain why it is relevant to sociology. Girl, Interrupted is about an 18-year-old girl named Susanna Kaysen who suffers a breakdown and attempts suicide. Susanna […]
Girl, Interrupted is an American psychological film and memoir based on true events of Susanna Kaysen’s life. Over the course of her life and her stay in a mental hospital, she experiences three major stages; mental health, friend influence and self-esteem. Susana Kaysen is only eighteen years old at the beginning. She is an intelligent […]
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Get startedGirl Interrupted is a movie directed by James Mangold. Mental illness is a serious issue, that is portrayed in this film. It harps on the struggles of mental illness between teenage women. Susanna Kaysen, an 18 year old teenage girl was instated into a psychiatric center known as Claymoore after trying to commit suicide for […]
Movie Summary 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen has a nervous breakdown and overdoses, causing her to be checked into the psychiatric hospital called, Claymoore. On the ward, she befriends a few of the other girls who lived there with her. Polly, a childlike girl with schizophrenia; Georgina, Susanna’s roommate who is also a pathological liar; and Daisy, […]
Crazy, but normal, Susanna Kaysen, an eighteen-year-old in April of 1967, was forced to stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric resident facility in Massachusetts, after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills. A doctor who interviewed her for twenty minutes forcefully advocates her to a commitment into a mental hospital. She was thought to be in […]
