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Was this ever released in the UK? or did it go straight to vid or something? I have no memory of it (but then I wasnt in england in 2001...)
 
Yea there was talks for ages about it being made with Winona Ryder as Elizabeth. But eventually Christina Ricci played her... Apparently made in 2001 - but I have no recollection of a release. Anyone???
 
The girl in the book is annoying and self-indulgent, by the second chapter I was willing her to slit her throat and put us all out of our misery! i hope that the film adRAB some much needed humour.
 
Thanks kiki


what a charming person you are... lets hope you never suffer from mental illness or you might find people wishing the same for you.
 
I read somewhere that Christina Ricci loathed her performance in this movie and was relieved that it was never widely distributed but I can't find a link to the interview. She said that for the first time she invested a role with a lot of her own emotions and she found it a very disturbing method of acting that she wouldn't repeat. (I'm paraphrasing.) I remember reading too in another interview that for years she was treated by her own therapist father :eek:

Btw, I do "suffer" from clinical depression and I can still empathise with the poster who found Wurtzel self-indulgent. She is self-obsessed. I'd say most depressed people are. It isn't a very endearing illness.
 
That's interesting thx... So, I didn't "miss" it then, it just wasn't widely distibuted. But do we know why??


I too suffer from/live with c-depression. And as a sufferer of the illness I know the depths that depression can take you too. Self indulgent? Maybe, but not in a narcissistic way. When this illness sweeps in and tears your life apart sometime you can't help become self indulgent - in that life becomes a quest to live or relive the good days, to get that spark back, to enjoy what you can see others enjoying. To me the book is her personal account of that battle. It's not heavy, its not academic, it's just a her story of life's highs and lows.
 
Well, there's the suggestion that in the aftermath of Sept. 11 producers felt that audiences wouldn't warm to the story of a depressed college student - her experiences seemed insignificant in comparison. Wurtzel also got a lot of bad press for describing the attacks as "beautiful" and saying she felt no emotional response to them (this from a native New Yorker.)

Although, "Girl, Interrupted" got made, so hey-ho.
My personal theory is that tptb decided their heroine wasn't likeable enough.




Yes, I understand. For me it can be bit like a fog around me. I'm so focused on myself and what I'm going through that I can't see outside of myself or think of the people around me. I've treated my frienRAB and family horribly at times, but I see depression as a reason for that, not an excuse.
I'm actually glad that Wurtzel is so honest even if at times that means she's unlikeable.

To the poster who asked if it was worth reading - I'd say yes, though at times Wurtzel can be frustrating.
 
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