Movie susanna and the mounty movie#

When a male orderly notices them, Susanna seduces him to keep him from reporting the incident. To cheer her up, Susanna steals a guitar from the music room and sits outside Polly’s room with Lisa. The nurses remove her and place her into solitary confinement to calm her down, but she continues sobbing, horrified by the burn scars all over her body and face. It is shown that friend Polly observes the couple as they speak outside. He tries to persuade her that she is not crazy and that the girls in the asylum are not really her friends. He says that he is about to serve in Vietnam and invites her to run to Canada with him. Susanna’s former boyfriend, Toby Jacobs ( Jared Leto), comes to visit. As a result, Lisa loses her outside privileges. The woman harshly berates Susanna, but Lisa intervenes with an oral assault, horrifying the older woman. Lisa encourages Susanna to stop taking her medications and/or trade them with others, and generally resist the influences of therapy.ĭuring a visit outside the ward at a nearby ice-cream shop, Susanna is confronted by her mother’s friend, the angry wife of Susanna’s old English teacher, with whom she had an affair, and her daughter. She demands to know what happened to her best friend, eventually realizing that she had committed suicide. When Lisa returns to the ward after running away, she notices that her old best friend’s place has been taken by Susanna. Susanna is particularly enchanted by Lisa Rowe (Angelina Jolie), a diagnosed sociopath. She befriends some fellow patients and forms a small troupe of troubled women in her ward. She denies the accusation, in the process acknowledging that she does not want to go to college but would like to be a writer. Set in the late 1960s, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) finds herself in Claymoore Hospital following an OD. The plot, which follows, is condensed from Wikipedia.

Movie susanna and the mounty movie#

The movie takes a keen, if “Hollywoodized,” look at borderline-personality disorder, suicide, and sociopathic behavior within late-1960s institutional life. The superior cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, and Angelina Jolie, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Starring Winona Ryder, Girl, Interrupted is an adaptation of Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir. (The final film for discussion, an updated version of The Bell Jar, will be included as a kind of “what may be” assuming its delayed release extends past summer 2013.) This is film number twenty of twenty-one in the AMHF series, focusing on a range of Hollywood depictions of psychiatry, analysts, and individuals under analysis, from the silent era to the present.

Themes relevant to the work of AMHF: Borderline Personality Disorder, Sociopathic Behavior, and Suicide all thro the lens of feminist theory