Odd Girl Out Movie Analysis

Mean girls is a movie about a teenage girl going into public school as a junior in high school for the first time, after being homeschooled for her entire life up until. She is discovering herself and where she wants to fit in with her peers. She is pulled many times to the middle of ongoing rivalries and trying to make the decision as to what side she wants to take in the rivalry and what peer group she wants to be part of, the groups that interest her and the groups she is already knowledgeable about. It is hard for her being that public school in America is completely different than home schooling in Africa, she has to learn and adapt to new customs, new pressures, and new acceptance by others. I will be discussing the Influences on Identify Formation that is reflected in this movie.

While watching this film it truly opened my eye to the violence that occurs to females. I know this issue has been around, but never realized the severity of it until this film. My knowledge prior to watching is that women is not treated with the same respect as men. In society women are viewed as the weaker gender and violence towards them are usually swept under the rug and not seem as a big deal. I am aware that women usually do not report the issue because they are afraid. What was most surprising to me is that in third world countries violence such as rape, are not even considered to be serious. The higher authorities are aware that rape occurs, but usually do nothing about the situation. Men can simply get away with their acts because

This movie is about institutionalized girls some of which have been through extremely traumatic events. They are receiving treatment for multiple mental health disorders. Claymore Psychiatric Hospital is in Belmont, Massachusetts. This film was based on a true story. Daisy Random, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters. Mrs. Randone is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression, and borderline personality disorder. While Lisa is a sociopath and is not very compliant with her treatment regimen. She has been admitted to Claymore facility, numerous times. While Susanna attempts suicide by chugging vodka while consuming a bottle of Aspirin. She is unsuccessful in her attempt. Daisy sadly ends up hanging herself from harsh words and manipulative, provoking by Lisa. She hangs herself on her birthday. It is very ironic that Brittany Murphy plays this part in the movie, she passed away of accidental causes by over the counter medications and prescription drugs.

When reading the first couple of pages of the short story, I concluded that the story was taking place back in the day because of the price of the herring snacks (464). I would never find herring for 49 cents. I was able to relate to the situation of the boy when the lady got mad when he rang up the item wrong. I work at a grocery store so I am able to relate to people getting made when you ring up an item twice. They get very mad and act like it’s the end of the world. I found it rude that Sammy called the girls pale and chunky even though he did not mean any harm to call the girls that (461). The girls did not have a name so they made of ones. When Sammy describes the girls that he sees, it reminds me of the movie “Mean Girls” because of

I chose Mean Girl because is a comedy full of notable quotes, funny characters, and is a very entertaining film. However what many individuals may not recognize is that film it shows several psychological concepts like parenting styles, adolescent egocentrism, role identity, and orders. Mean Girls takes places in the high school scenery. It all being with a girl name Cady Heron from Africa that has been home schooled her entire life until her family and herself move to Evanston, Illinois. Cady had to start high school life all over, and learning many things about her self and others, she also needs to make friends and try to blend in. She made friends with two classmates Janice and Damien who gave her all the details about the cliques and hierarchy rules at their high school. Which lead them to talk about the “Plastics” which involve the three most popular girls at their high school Gretchen, Karen and most importantly the queen bee of the school Regina George. Everyone wanted to be like the “Plastics”. She becomes involved with a well know school clique called “The Plastic” and this is how everything started. This film shows very funny but real life

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

On May 2, 2004 one of the most feminine dominate movies of the time. on the opening weekend, there were 2,839 screens that were showing the film, Mean Girls. During the opening weekend the movie made $24,432,195 (IMDb 1). The film grabbed the attention of everyone in world. It was a very popular film and still is today. Even though the film is popular, Sengupta says “the more popular the film, the more potential for harm” (413). Since this movie came out, females have been the rage in television shows and movies. No matter what movie you watch, there is likely to be an underlining female connection that connects to almost anyone. The film illustrates what high school cliques can do and the effect that they can have. THESIS

This was the first time I saw the play or the movie, “For Colored Girls”. But after watching this, I am glad I finally did. I liked how everything was set up and how each actor had a “colored scarf”. Each woman from the play introduced themselves by saying where they were from and explained their story. I believed that the actors took their role seriously and was able to bring the emotional aspect to the play and some were able to bring previous experience to the reading of the play.

In the film “Lars and the Real Girl” it uses a form and style that describes what Lars is going through. Throughout the film we can see Lars avoids people who try to show him loving emotions and physical contact such as touch, as when we see the psychologist touch his arm and he becomes uncomfortable. We can also see that Lars acts like a little boy in some instances throughout the film. An example of this is when we see Lars at church playing with action figures and when he drops one he realizes he is causing a disturbance during mass and he clearly becomes shy and embarrassed. Another example is when Lars plays with Margo’s teddy bear and gives it CPR to supposedly bring it back to life. During the film, we can also see many repetitions of

Mean Girls is a movie about a group of girls that are the most popular in High School, the film offers many instances where race, class and gender are clearly marked and classified developing our ideas of how these work in social setting specifically on those of teenagers. From the start of the movie we clearly see the categorization of groups of students together because of their race, we see African Americans together, Asian Americans together and groups of white students together. The movie Mean Girls also defines the status of a group because of their economic status, we hear one of the students describing how someone is so popular because she owns two expensive cars and throughout the movie her economic

Lars and the Real Girl, is a movie that contains a very emotional storyline. Lars willingly tries to alienate himself from any situation that involves socializing with other people. He feels the need to keep to himself because he’s never tried to let someone in his life, after his mom’s passing during his birth, his father fell into a deep depression and completely shut down until he himself passed away. His brother Gus thought that leaving Lars was the best idea because he thought as long as he got away it was going to be the best for Lars. Although after all he realized that he was wrong and starts to feel responsible for Lars attitude. He stated in the movie, “I shouldn't of left you alone with him, he was too sad, it scared me and I just

This film is a comedy teen film directed by Mark Waters who directed movies such as “Freaky Fridays” and “The spider wick Chronicles. This film is a smart and funny one. It even contains some wisdom and was the most popular teen film. The film was written by Tina Fey who also plays as Miss Norbury in the film. This film was released in 2004 June 24 Australia. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a junior high school was home-schooled in Africa while her parents worked there as an anthropologists before they move back to America things changed her life. When her Dad was hired by Northern Western and she enrols in Evanston Township High School because she is the smartest girl in the school. When Cady is not smart about the ways clique work in high school, and how she is categorized and stereotyped by whom she hangs with and how she dress.

In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that reality is becoming too dense, and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and the bizarre world of the institution. Susanna bonds with several other patients, including Lisa (Angelina Jolie), Polly (Elizabeth Moss), and Georgina (Clea DuVall). As she realizes that Lisa is potentially dangerous and truly needs help, Susanna begins to work harder with her psychiatrist (Vanessa Redgrave) and the nurse on the ward (Whoopi Goldberg). But Susanna soon learns that getting out of the hospital is not as easy as getting in. Girl, Interrupted was based on the autobiography of Susanna Kayson, (which was released April 19th 1994) who did spend a year-and-a-half in the McLean Psychiatric Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. (Kavsen, 1994)

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In the movie, Lars and the Real Girl, Lars suffers from an undefined medical condition. He goes through a phase of having a life size doll and thinking it is real. He also tries to avoid any contact with his brother or his brother’s wife, Karen, which are his neighbors. He shows symptoms of the Schizoid Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia. His symptoms of the Schizoid disorder are he avoids relationships and prefers to be alone with no social contact. From Schizophrenia, he has disorganized and confused speech, and social withdrawal. Towards the beginning, Karen would always try to make Lars come over and have dinner with them, but he would always make an excuse not to. Also, he would never let people touch him. As a treatment, his doctor would start to hold his hand