Reality is warmer than reverie

Elmo 2022-03-21 08:01:02

I don't know why it translates to such a misleading name as "the first experience of a girl", but it's a good movie about a girl who suffers from depression. And, it's a true story.

She lacked fatherly love since she was a child, and gained excessive maternal love, unable to find the balance between request and rejection. I kept writing, went to Harvard on a journalism scholarship, and got the freedom of my dreams: smoking, drinking, and taking drugs. . . If she is a genius, she is just an emotional expressor with constant thoughts and extreme sensitivity. When the disadvantages of the advantages outweigh the advantages, she never knows where she is, and she is forced into depression. In addition to himself, everyone around him is hurt.

When difficulties come, misfortunes often do not come singly. The hated mother is beaten by robbers, and the entangled boyfriend actually has a mentally retarded sister who speaks ill of his roommate who has betrayed him. They don't blame her, because they know that such a person has already suffered unimaginable pain.

Sadly, these pains come not only from her childhood experiences, but from herself. If you don't give yourself time to use the edges and corners to adapt to the environment, you will only be hated because of being too sharp, and you will hate yourself even more.

Fortunately, this is not such a tragic drama. With the help of drugs, she got time to rest and calmed down her rapidly bursting brain, and finally completed the writing and sold well all over the country. This is the light of hope, let me see that happiness will not come suddenly, but will follow her footsteps, gradually, and then suddenly meet her unexpectedly.

The heroine interprets the role very well, and is one of the producers, so I couldn't help but check her birth date to try to find the connection, and found that she is an Aquarius. However, according to further investigation, the protagonist of the real story is Cancer, so I gave up the idea of ​​continuing to think about it, and then turned to admire Christina Ricci's acting skills.

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Prozac Nation quotes

  • [Elizabeth has been awake for days, writing obsessively]

    Noah: I don't know how to say this to you, all right? But you are starting to smell.

  • Noah: [looking at the writing Elizabeth is doing after being awake for days] This is just scribbling.