Posted by Cass on January 25, 2000, at 18:16:16
Although I had some reservations about it, I went to see, "Girl Interrupted." The thing that bothered me the most was the button pushing scenes that took place when Lisa goads Dolly by saying that Dolly enjoyed her sexual abuse, and second, when the protagonist (Wynona Ryder, whose name I have already forgotten) criticizes Lisa by saying, "No one cares if you die, because you are already dead." The cruelty of the protaganist's attack on Lisa is far more cold than Lisa's attack on Dolly. Yet, the protagonist is supposedly "cured," or close to it. Afterwards, I felt intensely sympathetic toward Lisa (even though her callousness over Dolly's death was disturbing.)
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