Is it mental illness or adolescence? Maybe we've all gone crazy

Jedidiah 2022-04-20 09:01:38

In recent years, I have watched several movies about mental illness, such as Leaping Over the Lunatic Asylum, The Line of Happiness behind the Dark Cloud, Side Effects, etc. I have read the famous genius on the left and the lunatic on the right. My biggest feeling is that the so-called mental illness is just our thinking. We look at the world from different angles. Except for some extreme cases, ordinary mental patients are not so scary. You can try to get close to them and let them have a free life. In addition to discussing whether the world is crazy or only they are crazy, this film also focuses on the hesitation of adolescence and the goalless future, which has remained unchanged for decades. In addition to the situation of the period, this question still exists widely today. It can also be regarded as a philosophical question. When do people really do what? What is our plan? Can you do nothing all your life, just a part-time job? Do people have to live according to the expectations of the world? I don't know, maybe that's what the director wanted to ask. Everyone has a period of hesitation, what should we do, how should we resolve our inner conflicts? Maybe we've all been crazy, maybe we're just liars, liars who lie to ourselves and others.

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Girl, Interrupted quotes

  • Daisy: You're just jealous, Lisa... because I got better... because I was released... because I have a chance... at a life.

    Lisa: They didn't release you 'cause you're better, Daisy, they just gave up. You call this a life, hmm? Taking Daddy's money, buying your dollies and your knick-knacks. And eating his fucking chicken, fattening up like a prize fucking heifer? You changed the scenery, but not the fucking situation - and the warden makes house calls. And everybody knows. Everybody knows. That he fucks you. What they don't know... is that you like it. Hmm? You like it.

    Susanna: [to Lisa] Shut the fuck up!

    Lisa: [to Susanna] Hey man, it's cool, it's okay. It's fine, it's fucking fine! A man is a dick is a man is a dick is a chicken... is a dad... a Valium, a speculum, whatever, whatever.

    [then turns to Daisy]

    Lisa: You like being Mrs. Randone. Probably all you've ever known.

    Daisy: Have fun in Florida.

    [she goes upstairs to her room]

  • Janet: I want my fucking clothes!

    Valerie: Then you'll have to eat something, won't you?

    Janet: [singing] Oh Lordy, pick a bale o' cotton / Oh Lordy, pick a bale o' hay / Gotta jump down spin around pick a bale o' cotton / Jump down spin around, pick a bale o' hay...

    Valerie: [to Susanna] She thinks that bothers me.