IMDB: 7.3
Cast: Angelina Jolie (as Lisa Rowe), Wiona Ryder (as Susanna Kaysen)
It's a biographical movie of Susanna Kaysen. She has an illness that makes her hallucinate. They've put her into a hospital after she accidentally tried to kill herself. In the hospital, she has experienced lots of weird and heartbreaking things. At first, she had a hard time blending in. After that, she met Lisa, who has power on everyone because of her cruelness. No one likes to argue with her. Susanna starts to like Lisa, and when Lisa proposes to run away, she said yes. The death of someone they both knew, brings her back to reality. After that, Susanna never thought of killing herself. On the other hand, Lisa's reaction was completely different from Susanna's. She took the dead girl's money, in fact, she made her kill herself. Susanna knew she had to stay away from Lisa even if she likes her. She got better over time and went back home. It's about her experiences there as a "crazy" person and then as a "normal" person. When she went back home she still didn't know what the difference was. She learned that even if the world is ordinary and full of shit, she has the chance to live there.
Personal Thoughts: I liked the movie. It was a bit long so watch it if you have time or try to watch it on separate days. The thing that made the movie more interesting was Lisa's aggressive personality and Susanna's poetic way of thinking. They were completely different but somehow they've managed to be friends. Angelina Jolie was so much different from her latest movies. I've never seen her like this but it was a good performance. Lisa does whatever she wants because she has no hope of getting herself out of the hospital. In one scene she said "I'll miss you" to Susanna when she was getting out of the hospital. Susanna was hopeful compared to Lisa. She said she doesn't have to miss her because she believed Lisa was going to get out of there too. Another thing about Lisa is that she gained her power by being cruel and using other people's weaknesses, but under that layer, I believe she actually can be a good person. Lisa's power over people is so obvious that when she blows smoke to an old woman's face, she doesn't even say a thing but when Susanna does the same thing just to see if she'll react, she does react. They all have some bad stuff that they've been through. For example, Daisy's dad molesting her and Polly burning her face and never liking herself after that. Susanna doesn't have a specific problem. I think she just doesn't like her life and feels like she doesn't fit in. She feels like her family and everyone else is just being fake and not actually living. I'm glad that I've seen this movie. The performances were fantastic and it was a pretty different movie than what I would normally watch. However, I would like to stress that it has pretty dark themes in it so watch it if you're not sensitive to those kinds of things.
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