Movie review for girl, interrupted.

After sitting for 2 hours and 7 minutes without moving a muscle, you know you've watched girl, interrupted, although not as chilling as the book it still managed to make you shriek after Angelina Jolie's performance as Lisa Rowe the sociopath and Winona Ryder as Susanna Kaysen who had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder after voluntarily checking herself into Claymore Hospital after her " headache" which included an overdose of aspirin and a bottle of vodka as a cure. more commonly known as a suicide attempt.
Although James Mangold should have never added scenes to the movie that weren't in the book to make a more dramatic impact such as Lisa and Susanna running away together or Lisa's appearance thought the whole movie whereas in the book she was mentioned only in two chapters threw the movie off to the side a bit it still managed to pick its pace and win boundless awards, most for Angelina Jolie who according to Susanna Kaysen most accurately portrayed her character in the movie.
The movie was able to show the suburban life some meaning outside the usual shopping sprees and important social life and show the true life portrait of the 1960's, it shows the pressure put in woman to be like their mothers and to go on into ivy league universities like all the others, which Susanna rebels against saying " i doesn't want to end up like my mother ". Soon after she feels like she has no future ahead of her which leads into her sanity that we have an insight on after watching girl, interrupted. its chilling, informational and all together a success.


Reflection-
At this point i was stuck, i didn't know what other genres to write anymore or where to turn to next so i conferenced with Ms sackstein and we came up with some ideas, that helped me a lot and i was able to finish my project without any more trouble or worrying what other genres to write, and i thought a movie review would be interesting so i looked up formats of movie reviews and read some as well to have a general idea of how to write one.