Girl, Interrupted



Man, I watched Girl, Interrupted last night and the remainder this morning. Mental health and the true story of a young woman who spent a year of her life in an upscale Psych Ward during the 1960's were the backbone of the story. It was harrowing, humorous, and downright heebie-jeebie. Think One Who Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest gone female.  

A. Jolie plays a narcissistic hell-raiser just a little too well. She is not the main character but might as well have been because the story needs her scalding and accusative voice in order to be told.  

Mental health is like boxing a shadow. The shadow is real and ominous but it is difficult to find the angles to move the fight for health forward. Archimedes might have been able to move the world if he had a place to stand but such footing is fleeting in the realm of soul healing. That which is of the world cannot cure the world.

I think the movie ultimately affirms the powerful antidote of Truth as the key to progressive healing. None of are really OK but instead we are all fractured to some degree or another. Splinting the mind like a broken femur is hardly as certain. Meds are at best are a tourniquet of sorts for the soul to stop its psychic hemorrhaging. At worst, Pharms are a draining and dulling to the point where nothing matters. Flat-lining is not the return to health, it is instead a psychological leprosy to the point where pain is dulled and transformation is truncated.

I would really like to show this film to young people. Unfortunately, it is too real and too raw for "good kids" to imbibe without their parents going crazy in a case of projection and then rejection. Many Christians would not dare to view this flick. Strange, Jesus who put Himself into the Psych Ward of this world must wonder why we avoid embracing Art that shows why He chose to redeem that which was lost. You, me, and the whole freaking wayward world.
 

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