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Girl
Interrupted
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Director:
James Mangold
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"This class has focused on characters
that are living in this indeterminate state somewhere between “girl”
and “woman.” To say the least, this period in a girl’s life is confusing.
We must struggle with the pressures of girlhood and womanhood all at
once. We must remain cute, yet be strong and hold our own in the world.
We must maintain our image of chastity, while coming to terms with our
own sexual desires. We have to be pure, yet deal with the fact that
we are becoming sex objects. In this point of limbo we are encouraged
to do something great in this world (“You’d make a great doctor”), yet
everyone wonders what will happen to your career when you have kids
(“By the time you’ll get out of Med School you’ll be 32! when will you
start a family?”)." - sillylil "Nearly all of the discipline, medication
and punishment in Girl, Interupted were administered to the young female
patients by other women. Though two of the doctors- the official, educated,
powerful people in the film- were men, all of the people who caried
out the prescribed patient "care" were - tauba
"[Gayle Wald's] claim that shopping affords Cher agency within a terribly restricted social realm seems patronizing and indulgent, as though an intelligent young woman can only really make decisions with respect to her choice of plaid for the day and selection between an endless variety of chunky platform heels. Poor baby!" - ces1983 Offical Girl Interrupted Website
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Girl,
Interrupted (1999)
Quotes
from the Class Discussion Forum:
female (with a single exception). The point remains, however, that this
film depicts a social structure wherein women confine women, train and
condition them to conform, impose the classifications of sick or healthy,
normal or deviant, permiscuous or prude that are principally described
male 'experts' . "