A bad case of the SPOILERS

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2006)

The trip to the café. Lisa was told that she would never be allowed out again and now I interpret that as a factual statement, maybe literal. A brick in the wall of an Edgar A Poe bricking in. Would Lisa also receive other chains that would be near impossible to break? If so they would not help her to be more sensible and politic, they would make such to be even more difficult for her.
Her time off the ward after she drugged a nurse. She mentioned Etc and was on the run, to the sunny US retirement state, dreaming Disneyland professional Cinderella. I assume that she had just received further chains, of the permanent sort. Again, I do not think that they would help her towards a healthy approach. This escape had her robbing someone by way of fake prostitution, then conning an enemy to let her stay the night, which led to a suicide, ham fistedly crushing while also misunderstanding the truth? As she had been crushed by people who missed the point about her? The escape failed.
I accept that this is fiction. I assume that the book will show Lisa getting additional chains in different ways. I like the film as it allows glimpses of a sympathetic view of Lisa to be found. If the hidden chainings were visible they might stand out as unreasonable and retrograde, instead it sounds unreasonable to say that they are there.
Susanna did meet the real Lisa on the outside, after they had both been discharged. How deeply buried and chained was that Lisa? The real Susanna looks to be still chained. Hurt.
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When Susanna returned she became immersed in diary writing as a central therapeutic activity. She also received an unusually large amount of help and supervision from the most qualified person there.
After her diary was stolen she did not have a clue re facing the questions of ethics and values that Lisa and the others set her. They were messed up in various ways by the diary, she was sunk by their reactions.
The fictional Harriet of Harriet The Spy 1996 faced a parallel challenge and H did even worst.
When Susanna left she tried to appease Georgina  Clea, yet the way she did it was smelly. She showed that she still did not have a good understanding of the utility and ethics of journal therapy. She was reacting to the criticism in a way that said poor or chained understanding leading to poor mental health. Chained understanding?
Mid teens I was inspired to want to write "think things through" notes. My ethics made me freeze instead. Hedgehog Ostrich, drifter. Susanna and Georgina froze at different stages. Lisa?
I do not know how Susanna's book shows this aspect, but I would be surprised if it was not a real problem.
I assume that the note making allowed Susanna a potential for examining her belief system disorders, my private language, even allowing scope for some change of her ways. Her past would have given her massive belief system disorders that I assume I would be able to relate to, I do want to read the book sometime.
As well as the notes she needs more tools, even practical permissions to examine and modify her childhood understandings of appropriate good sense. She shows me that she had a shortfall in her toolkit, that the supervision had needed to help her get that more okay. At least she could have done worse.
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Madonna. The 2001 video for What It Feels Like For A Girl.
In the UK there is the possibility for transgendered with the right medical references to gain the legal rights and responsibilities of our acquired gender. I really had not considered it worthwhile for me to try to gather the appropriate references, as if basic civil rights was likely too expensive. Expensive in all sorts of ways. Health professionals have a much more advanced toolkit, in some ways, than a singer. Not that this Madonna is lacking.
What we have in the UK is gender recognition for those who can face the hurdles. What one really needs might include acceptance and tolerance. Lisa and Susanna raise nice questions.
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A story of personal relevance, but reading all the comments none covered what this is to me.
Drafting a comment was not easy. I needed to simplify by just considering a few issues related to Susanna and Lisa, then a look at a parallel issue. This also links with my previous comments on Matilda 1996, 10-10-06, and Goblet Of Fire 2005, 7-9-06, and Fire On The Amazon 1991, 24-5-06, but they are as long as this. Things like the 'Can You Wag The Dog' aspects are hinted at there.
I misuse the term spoiler. Most comments mentioning some detail, I get confused.
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These are some of the more recent comments that stood out for me:
Amazing true story, 11 October 2006, from Jordan ---- She's a Girl on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 27 May 2006, from Kentucky ---- Performances by the whole cast (especially Jolie) are all amazing., 8 May 2006, from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA ---- Girl,Interrupted, 16 January 2006, from UK ---- Meaningful..., 3 January 2006, from Houston, Texas
Tap into the Psychological, 20 October 2005, from USA ---- Director James Mangold hits a slight interruption of his own, 31 August 2005, from redlands, ca ---- i have noticed some similarities with "Girl" and "Cuckoo's Nest"......., 15 July 2005, from USA ---- Very good, 12 June 2005 , from Oxford, England. ---- female "violence", 22 March 2005, from USA ---- magnificent, 7 February 2005, from Manchester