Name: Inocencia interrumpida
Director: James Mangold
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall

Question 1

Why do you think Susanna and her friends struggled so much to understand who they were?

Accepted Answer

Disturbing drama about mental health with an arc of healing and maturity. *Girl, Interrupted* is a stark portrayal of adolescent pain in the sixties, when the psychiatric system often diagnosed as illness what was frequently existential confusion or rebellion against rigid social molds. The film does not romanticize mental illness: it unflinchingly…

Question 2

What is the difference between being different and being truly ill?

Accepted Answer

iatric system often diagnosed as illness what was frequently existential confusion or rebellion against rigid social molds. The film does not romanticize mental illness: it unflinchingly depicts self-harm, despair, and the consequences of self-destruction. But neither does it…

Question 3

How would you have helped someone who is lost and confused like Susanna?

Accepted Answer

llion against rigid social molds. The film does not romanticize mental illness: it unflinchingly depicts self-harm, despair, and the consequences of self-destruction. But neither does it condemn it with clinical coldness. The character of Lisa (Angelina Jolie) is equally…