March 14th, 2008
Have a looksie: Girl, Interrupted
I have not seen the movie. I had been wanting to, but it was just one of those ones I never got around to. I don’t think that I even really knew what it was about. I think I will make a point of checking it out now.
It follows a young woman, Susanna Kaysen, as she enters and resides in a mental health facility, along with various other young women. Diagnosed with a “personality disorder”, she strains to understand her “condition”, as well as deal with those around her. It seems a bit sporatic, and jumpy, but then I’m sure it was meant to be that way. I sometimes felt some of it a bit lacking, as I wanted to know more about the individuals, but was left wondering. Of course, this is a memoir, and perhaps she just didn’t know more, and the sense of missing something isn’t just a reader’s problem.
I have always been interested in how the mind works, and the different mental disorders facsinate me, so this book seemed an obvious choice when I saw it come across the library counter and into my hands.