Girl, Interrupted: character and editing examples

Girl, Interrupted (1999) is possibly my favourite movie ever, and it heavily relates to our two minute opening. I wont dissect it too much, but I think that the editing techniques used throughout the film are particularly effective.

It entails the account of Susanna Kaysen's stay at a mental hospital for 18 months. Susanna, played by the incredible Winona Ryder, is 18 when she is admitted to Claymoore and she is diagnosed with BPD.

Here is one of the sessions she has with her psychiatrist:



I really like how the scenes blend into one another through a match cut - it would be really interesting to try this out when we are editing to make our change of setting more visually exciting.

The character which probably relates to ours the most (due to her drug misuse) is Daisy, played by Brittany Murphy, who was one of my favourite actresses.


One of the best known lines in the movie is said by Daisy, here it is:

Here is the full scene - our character's behaviour is similar to Daisy's: