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Film Analysis: Girl Interrupted

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The movie that I decided to choose is “Girl, Interrupted”. Girl, Interrupted was written as an autobiography by Susanna Kaysen in 1993, which is actually about her life. James Mangold later wrote Girl, Interrupted as a movie script in 1999. Susanna Kaysen is taken to the hospital after a suicide attempt, that she says was not an attempt at all. The doctor does not believe her, so she ends up in a mental hospital. She becomes friends with four women while staying at Claymore (the mental hospital): Daisy (who has been sexually abused and has an obsession with laxatives and roasted chicken), Polly (a self-inflicted burn victim), Georgina (a pathological liar), and finally we get to Lisa (a sociopath). Susanna is diagnosed with having a Borderline

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