If you get used to the darkness, you will reject the light.

Clara 2022-04-22 07:01:12

I haven't written anything in a long time. Because it's a little difficult for me to concentrate, I'm not very productive, and I get headaches for a long time.

Watching this movie, because the background is in a mental hospital, I unconsciously compared it as the female version of "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest (1975)
9.1
1975 / USA / Drama / Milos Foreman / Jack Nicholson Danny DeVito

Of course, the themes of the two films are completely different. "The Girl Who Moved Souls" isn't as big, and the narrative is looser. The metaphors and ironies are not as deep and forceful as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

To me, it's not the kind of movie that hits you hard with a stimulant. Still very gentle, perhaps "the growth diary of a girl in a mental hospital"?

Those who can find resonance may be people who have experienced extremely contradictory moments in life. Living in the gap between ideals and reality, rational thinking is profound, but it is very painful.

No matter how long you stay in the dark, I support and understand your resistance, but please remember to be gentle with yourself, and then learn to be gentle with the world.

The world and us are pitiful, but we must remember that we all have to live.

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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.