Girl, Interrupted

ANGELINA JOLI.

ANGELINA FUCKING JOLI.

She is INcredible. Her performance is completely immersive, mesmerising, bloody brilliant.

She captures the intricacies of mental health so iconically and transforms the nature of this film, projecting it onto far higher ground than if she wasn't cast. I knew she could act but I had no idea of the level that she was capable of performing on. Genuinely incredible.

Winona Ryder is also incredible. She has this remarkable presence that forces the opinion of the audience to alter with her character, a feat which emulates this incredible skill in her own right. Obviously this is also owed to the intricacy of the script and the direction of the film but nonetheless the acting was needed at a soaring level in order to pull it off, and shit, do they pull it off.

We move with the character. I began by thinking that to treat mental illness was a complete industry aimed at stigmatising a group of people who weren't necessarily ill but just thought differently to the majority, to realising, with the character, that actually this treatment is necessary. That her character did need the treatment and that it propelled her life to a far happier state than it would have been without it. I mean, what an incredible achievement to change my mind so vastly in such a short space of time.

In a sentence: For real, this film is groundbreaking.