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The Worst Film Ever

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Yes, you will see the beautiful and barely 20 yo Christina Ricci topless in this depressing movie about depression and anti-depressants. I don't care what kind of pills she's on when the lights go off and those roundy rounds come out to play. Cheer up buttercup, you have a kickin' body, and you've made sure that everyone in America knows it. The movie is a little bit of a downer though, so take my advice and turn the sound off, see those big beautiful breasts floppin' around over that skinny, taught stomach of hers, and see where the night takes ya. Let it do what it do...let tha flow go, and us ladies may find out a little more about ourselves than we ever wanted to know.

Well. There is saying "There is nothing more efficient to break the confidence than Jewish mother". I quite didn't understand that until I have meet some families with Jewish ancestry and very, very pathological relationships between mothers and daughters. Mothers are typically very demanding, cold to daughters but full of self pity and perform emotional scenes to their daughters full of blame and incredibly poisonous mix of love and hate. The daughters feel mix of hate and guilt to mothers, they feel they are not "up to the expected standards". They would like to set themselves free, but they cannot, because they are tied to their family very strongly. Every guy who tried to get between the mother and daughter in this fight felt he lives in hell house. Everyone had to leave this hell house sooner (the boyfriend) or later (the father). This is portrayed very realistically in the movie. The pathology is here and what is worse it propagates from one generation to the next generation. Unfortunately no pill is solution to this sort of pathology. It removes the pain but not the wound itself.On the other hand the movie fails completely as the description of depression. Depression is not hysterical run to destruction and self destruction as shown in the movie. Depression sucks all the energy from people and leaves them optically calm, until something bad happens (suicide attempt). I know about several suicides of young people, usually "out of the blue", because these people were so depressed that they were not able to communicate their depression and seemed "only tired or ill" to the others. This was very sad because help from psychiatrist could actually save their lives. Not a single case was similar to the movie, usually even parents did not see what was coming, not even their friends.So, this is not movie about depression and "problem than haunts US". It is movie about inability to reflect herself or to get any insight into her situation (the part about "swallowing the lover" is especially pathological and shows total narcissism and selfish personality). There is no movement to good, no progress, only pills that replace other drugs and alcohol to hide the problem. This is description of utter failure to resolve or achieve anything, she is as damaged at the end as she was in the beginning. The idea that someone could try to find something of use for his life from this movie is actually very frightening. Very, very bad example, please see this as only warning how to NOT proceed on therapy!

I had no idea this is based on real life. But Christina Ricci is terrific in her role again. Even if she isn't the most likable person and her "better than everybody" persona does do little to make you sympathize with her.But that's not what the movie is after. It tries to get us into the mindset of this character (person) and it kinda succeeds in doing so. It is a drama and therefor won't really be the movie Ricci fans might seek out to see her in her Eva costume. It's still a testament to her commitment going all that way and only emphasizes the "nakedness" of her character (and vulnerability).Not an easy movie by a long shot, but who said you wanted an easy movie to watch? (unless you wanted to, but then you shouldn't watch this one)

I haven't read the book, but I certainly will since in my experience book is always much better than the following film.The only criticism I have for this film is that the ending is somehow sudden. I was so into the film and when it'd finished I felt like someone had cut the film's last 10 minutes.I'm the 4th year student of psychology and psychotherapy and in my opinion the story showed depression like it really is with some people suffering from it. That's why I want to read the book too.The film concentrates at the present crisis of the main character Elizabeth with a few glimpses into her childhood. She just started university. Going to college alone is considered stressful event and one of the normal crisis in life (as is for example pregnancy, retirement etc.) and can be a trigger for depressive episodes (combined with other factors).I was really impressed with how the film presented mother-daughter and daughter-boyfriend relationship and the state of mind of a depressed person. The relationship with her father, her emotions for him and vice versa are less developed. But all important psychological elements were covered. The usual behavior of parents who have children with similar illnesses is there. The powerful desire depressed people have for someone to save them is also showed in the film. Also the hardness of being friends or in some other way close to depressed person.And acting - I'll just say bravo! I also like the following point in the film - if you're suffering from depression, seek help, from family, friends, but especially professional help! And if you really feel that professional help is not good enough for you seek further. It's treatable! (Btw, don't use just drugs) It's not that depressed people don't have power to deal with it alone when they seek help - no one else can win that fight for them. It's about support and guidance through the black clouds of their mind and Pan's labyrinth but the real steps and decisions are made by them.