Girl Interrupted Analysis

“Cold, shiny, hard, plastic.”, one of the most popular quotes from the movie, Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and screenplay by Tina Fey. This film is loosely based on a book called “Queen Bees and Wannabees” by Rosalind Wiseman which is a self-help book that describes all of the cliques in high school and how they can have a huge effect on girls. But the movie itself is about the sociopolitical climate of the average American “high school”. The movie was made in 2004 and set in Evanston, Illinois, but the film was shot in Toronto, Canada. The film stars Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and many more comedic actors and actresses. I chose to do an analysis on the movie, Mean Girls, because I wanted to see if people would agree with my perspective, which is that this movie does correctly show the real life mean girl situations and how girls can overcome the popularity contests.

Authors tend to use literary elements in their memoirs to exhibit their true intentions. In Girl, Interrupted and Night, Susanna Kaysen and Elie Wiesel manipulate these devices to reveal how enduring agonizing moments in life, can assist with finding one’s individualism. Susanna Kaysen highlights the difficulty with being institutionalized for two years in her memoir, and Elie Wiesel narrates his journey of being imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Within the memoirs, Girl, Interrupted and Night, authors Susanna Kaysen and Elie Wiesel utilize rhetorical questions and similes in a variety of equivalent and different ways to demonstrate that traumatic events have a forceful impact on one’s search for self-identity.

Girl, Interrupted (1999) directed by James Mangold is largely based on a semi- autobiographical book by the same title. The movie chronicles eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen’s experiences surrounding her stay at a mental institution. It is 1967, a time of social change and unrest. Susanna makes a half-heart attempt at suicide, ingesting a bottle of aspirin and chasing the pills with a bottle of vodka. She is taken to the emergency room, her stomach is pumped and she survives. Afterwards she meets with a psychologist who explores her more recent feelings and experiences. The psychologist concludes, with her parents assent, that she would benefit from a stay at Claymore, a private mental institution. The next year and nine months forever

Mean Girls was released in 2004, written by Tina Fey and mark Waters. The movie was based loosely on “Queen Bees and Wannabees” a self-help book by Rosalind Wiseman. Although the movie was released thirteen years ago, it is still highly discussed and watched today. This is rare for films that are marketed towards young people, and young women especially. Films like mean girls are often seen as frivolous and meant for children, but really Mean Girls is a film for all ages. Mean Girls is funny and hits home for people of all ages- especially adults although it is aimed at teenage girls. It brings back the awful memories of high school- but in a comedic light that lets everyone relate. Like in Girl World, serious themes in a comedy have to be

The Girl on the Train, directed by Tate Taylor and based off of Paula Hawkins’ novel, is all about how people are as they seem and even those that seem as if their life is perfectly put together, it’s far from it. This movie does agree and fit into the crime and mystery genres, but it is important to note that this movie does also fit into the psychological thriller genre. The Girl on the Train shows multiple ways of how Tom Watson has signs of being a psychopath. This movie should be classified as a psychological thriller because Rachel endures emotional abuse, as well as the physical abuse, Tom is a pathological liar, and a psychopathic killer.

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx is a heart wrenching short story written with an intimate style that evokes clear imagery in the mind of the reader. Although, only 28 pages in length the short story offered Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana source material that had potential to be expanded and to build upon the already created Midwestern reality.

Many people find different ways to cope with the events that take place in their lives or lack there of; some go to therapy, some take drugs, and then there’s the narrator of Fight Club he makes another personality, or a new monster.

Alone in rooms they dwindled. They had met online. Skinny inclinations had drawn them together. Young girls, aching to be thin, they connected. Bony fingers clattered at keyboards as they converged in forums to discuss excess fat. They did not know each other’s names, were easily concealed behind avatars and handles. The forums they frequented did not bend exactly to their needs. They splintered. Together they set up an anonymous blog. This digital nook became their sanctuary. A five strong sorority thrived. Online, adolescent insecurities were magnified, exposed to global peer pressure. Fussing over physiques was a viral disease. Beneath the line, images were deconstructed, every inch sifted for flaws.

We so desperately want approval and we want the world to see our accomplishments and great success in America through material items. Americans new definition of success, values, achievement, opportunity, and hard worked as drastically change; we now believe our self-worth and success is determined by our possessions by a brand. We are never content with the little we have, each day we attempt to satisfy others high needs before our own. For a chance at acceptance or recognition by people, we don’t even care for or talked to. In the novel, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, the novel centers on a modern-day man as the narrator and the protagonist. It focusses on his everyday life working as a specialist for a car company, he expresses the stress his job has been given him with the constant business trips; because of this, he begins to suffer from recurring insomnia. Along the way he seeks treatment, he takes part in visiting a support group for victims of cancer. Despite not having testicular cancer himself as he claims, he finds sharing his problems with others helps him reduces his insomnia. In the support group, he meets a woman by the name of Marla Singer, who is another

Girl interrupted is a gripping tale of a girl’s maladaptation to the challenges of life. The movie focuses on a young girl named Suzanna Kaysen growing up in the 1960s and struggling with the world around her. Suzanna is admitted to Clarmoore institution after she consumes a whole bottle of aspirin and alcohol to deal with her pain. When admitted to Clarmoore she claims she was not trying to commit suicide, but that she just had a headache. She is overwhelmed and apprehensive as she enters the institution and observes the people around her

The movie "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee, reinforces and prolongs harmful stereotypes toward homosexual. The main characters are Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who are hired as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming of 1963. They are strangers at first, then they find a deeper connection after a heavy drinking one night. Therefore, their sexual and emotional relationship creates a dilemma for them. After Jack and Ennis eventually part ways, Ennis is settled in Wyoming with his wife, Alma Beers and two girls, while Jack moves to Texas and marries his wife, Lureen Newsome and has a son. After four years, Jack visits Ennis. They are faced with a dilemma, which they undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do. Jack invite Ennis of creating a life together on a small ranch, but Ennis refuses. Since he was haunted by a childhood memory of the torture and murder of two men suspected of homosexual behavior (Dewanontons, 2017). Therefore, they continue to meet for infrequent fishing trips. The relationship struggles on for years until Ennis heard the tragedy that Jack died in an accident when a tire he was changing exploded. Ennis imagines that Jack is actually beaten by a gang of the thug for hate crime, the same fate that Ennis fears. Ennis travels to meet with Jack's parents and offers to take Jack's ashes to the mountain, however, the father refuses. (Brokeback Mountain, 2005).

The world can be viewed as an intricate and complex place, which contains different groups of people who have distinct views and behaviors. The pressure that is exerted on these individuals due to contrasting views and behaviors leads an individual to either dissociate or split. Martha Stout, the author of “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” discusses how her patients, Seth and Julia, were affected by trauma and dissociation. Dissociation and splitting, whether conscious or unconscious, influences an individual to a large extent by enabling them to detach from reality and change his or her worldview. Through her discussions and interviews with Julia and Seth, Stout depicts how much dissociation can affect an individual, which ultimately could result in the creation of a new identity. Similar to Stout, Leslie Bell also discovers the topic of psychological mechanisms in her Selection from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom when women are given a paradox of sexual freedom by explaining how women split to create histories and identities for themselves. Bell’s patients, Jayanthi and Alicia, want to define themselves, but simultaneously face pressures from their family and society as to how they should act. Susan Faludi’s, “The Naked Citadel” explains the experience of the cadets, while they were at The Citadel, where they were guided into following The Citadel’s standards, which

In a world where loneliness and emotional disconnect prevail many can find themselves taking drastic measures to find the light at the end of the tunnel. The unnamed narrator and protagonist of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk finds himself in this exact predicament after struggling to find meaning and purpose in his ordinary and cyclic life. Due to the pressures of work the narrator develops insomnia and disguises himself as a cancer patient in order to seek comfort and attention at support groups such as the “Remaining Men Together.” (Palahniuk 18) While attending these support groups the narrator notices a woman, Marla Singer, another fake patient who reminds him of his weakness and loneliness and, as a result, he decides it is better to stay away from her. Looking for relief from his life’s pressures, he escapes to a nude beach where he meets Tyler. The

I began to watch the first episode of Gossip Girl, I have never watched the series before and after hearing about the blog I decided it would be a good time. An overview of what Gossip Girl is about is that it is a fictional television show that explores the lives of people living amongst the elites in society in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Throughout the show, there are various characters and scenarios that discuss the problems of the characters, who are not elites and are engulfed into a society that they are not welcomed in. In the first season, they introduce the character of the teenagers who have grown up in extremely wealthy backgrounds, such as Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald, Chuck Bass, and Serena van der Woodsen. They were born with heritage and attended the best Upper East Side’s private school, Constance in New York City. But with these teenagers who have a great status and life, there is the lower class of the characters in Gossip Girl, which is the Humphrey family. Dan and Jenny Humphrey’s dad, Rufus is an old forgotten band artist, who now owns an art gallery, they live in a loft in Brooklyn. They don’t have a lot of wealth, but they still have enough money to send Dan and Jenny to the same private school are Serena, Blair, Nate, and Chuck who are all Upper East Side kids. Seeing that the lower class still have enough to be able to support and go to a private school shows they are in relative poverty, for they lack the resources that the Upper East Side

Brokeback Mountain is a romantic drama. This film has a lot to do with sexuality and sexual identity. Two lovers, Ennis and Jack, never describe themselves as gay but love each other. These men find themselves involved in a sexual affair spanning decades. This affair changed both their lives.No matter who they were with or how much they tried to stay apart, they always came back together. Brokeback Mountain depicts two men struggle with the reality of their sexual orientation. The dilemma in this film depicts the society people in power have created for us to live in. Sexual orientation has been a significant issue throughout American history, especially during the time frame Ennis and Jack engaged in their affair . Being gay was unacceptable in movie world because it was unaccepted in the real world. Brokeback Mountain started a social impact that was overdue and is continuing to progress till this day.