Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Girl Interrupted
Girl Interrupted was a very interesting movie and was not quite what I expected. In class we discussed certain movie lingo and terms that were present in the movie, such things as flashbacks, angle of the camera and costumes of the characters. The movie was littered with such things, one scene that caught my eye was when Lisa was down in the tunnel reading Susan's diary. It caught my eye because of the multiple camera angles, especially when Susan is looking for Lisa and the other in the tunnels and she comes to cross-roads within the tunnel and cannot figure out which tunnel to take to get to Lisa. The camera angle is amazing it pans from one tunnel to the next, to the next. It makes you feel like you are the one searching for the right way to go and it makes you feel lost and confused. Another scene that caught my attention is at Daisy's house. All the colors in her house are really bright and cheerful, when in reality her life is really sad and depressing. The house and the colors play as a mask for Daisy to hide how she really feels inside. Flashbacks were a big part of this movie, they helped viewers connect the dots and made things start to make sense. One flashback that I feel that has some importance is when Susan flashes back to a party at her house, where one of the dad's comes up to her room and tries to have intimate relations with her. The scene showed that she had already had a relationship with this man and helped to explain a scene that would come later on in the movie. The movie was very insightful and I really did enjoy watching it. I also enjoyed eating my gummi-worms during the movie!!! :)
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I totally agree, these two scenes were definitely two of the most memorable ones for me as well. The scene down in the tunnel was so powerful and I think it is really interesting how we are made to empathize with Susanna, but have sympathy for Lisa. Because the camera angles, as you pointed out, put us in Susanna's perspective, we feel as though we are running through the tunnel from Lisa just as Susanna is. We get the sense of being hurried and the way she and the camera keep coming to dead ends really allows us to put ourselves in Susanna's situation and empathize with her.
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned, we are also presented with the opportunity to then feel sympathy for Lisa when she breaks down completely after realizing that she does have a problem, after Susanna tells her that no one cares if she dies because she is already dead to the world. She is lifeless and doesn't seem to care.