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Surprisingly good ...
... for what I thought might be a cross between a chick flick and a "self-improvement" pop psychology book. Superior in all aspects to the overrated "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Angelina Jolie deservedly won an Oscar for her convincing portrayal of a fascinating but ultimately hopeless psychopath.

Everyone has their own little maggot in the brain
I was pretty exited to view this movie. Even though it was on a fuzzy vhs and Spanish dub. Well I can tell you it was a grand waste of time and considering this film deals with some of my best interests at heart, it was one of the most boring affairs I have ever had the displeasure of viewing. We start off with the character played by Winona Ryder. She apparently tried to kill her self with...aspirin. Yeah that's right, a whole bottle in fact! That caused me to loose all respect for her immediately. I mean what type of a retard over doses on aspirin for God sakes. A combination of Sleeping pills and tranquilizers would have been more efficient, with a stomach lining tablet first to prevent vomiting. Of course there's the popular paracetamol, but it normally gives you around two weeks to die, during which your skin turns yellow as your vital organs fail. Oh and the Looney bin. Well of course you have your run of the mill inhabitants e.g. the childish one, the fat one, the compulsive liar, the eating disorder and of course Angelina Jolie, our prize inmate. Of course its madness by numbers: The insane grin, hysterical laughing, the wacky hair etc. It's just so predictable.
Don't mention the fact that the majority of the clinically insane are quite shy meek mannered individuals. It is only when you get to really know them that their `weirdness' becomes apparent. I for one lived a whole year with a compulsive liar when I was 13. Told me she was dying of bone cancer. Went for a check up at the conveniently far away hospital every other week, or so she lead me to believe. Unfortunately it turned out she was a compulsive thief as well. Whoops just a little too late. Anyway back to the film. Why is Winona here with all these lunatics? Okay so she's depressed. Aww! Poor baby, aren't we all. Let's wallow in our self pity. I didn't get to university, boo hoo. I mean that's a lot worse then getting molested as a child or watching you mother kill herself in front of you. Like my best friend did. She's has bipolar depression and is a developing alcoholic but she struggles on. Oh and the whole cutting scene that some people have labelled disturbing. Hahahahahah! The trade mark shallow diagonal lines up the arm. Could serious self harmers be more insulted? Perhaps that's why I'm so angry at this film. Anyway, buy this if your looking for the obvious and the cliché. I guess I'm just sick of the constant stereotyping. Not a real look into to any of the mental problems presented here. Right! Time for my pills...


"Based on a true story" but ultimately lies
If this movie wasn't claiming to be a true story, I might have given it 3 stars. I read the book, however, and it's obvious that they changed things. Sure, it makes a better movie, but if they're going to claim that it's a true story, they should have stuck with the truth.

The worst part, however, is the ending. It changes the entire point of the story. In the movie, the "good girl" who more or less goes along with the psychiatric program gets better and gets out. The "bad girl" who doesn't ends up pretty much exactly like the "bad girl" at the end of The Craft: crazed, screaming, and in 4-point restraints.

In the book, the true story, the "good girl" gets released and ends up, eh, okay. Not great, but getting by. Years later, she runs into the "bad girl" who also got released and ended up, eh, okay. Not great, but getting by. To change this ending is utterly inexcusable. It changes absolutely everything the author of the book was trying to tell about what institutions are really like and really accomplish.

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