Bb D

This movie does a not so good job at portraying mental health, which is what you'd expect from a movie about a women's psych ward. The movie does not go in the depth at all on what any of the characters actually feel. It's more of just showing the different disorders they have but not actually going in depth on any one of them, therefore, providing the audience with literally nothing. For example, the movie throws random facts at you about the girl with the eating disorder, like that fact that she has one and has a bad father and self harms. And that's all they care to say without explaining or commenting anything else. This is almost a mockery of mental health issues and portrays so many of the characters as "crazy people" like Lisa. There is absolutely NOTHING about Susanna's actual recovery and its almost as if she decides to accept treatment out of the blue in a two minute montage. The whole theme of it is friendship I guess and Susanna treats her fellow patients as friends by the end but almost no relationships and evidence of why she'd do this is shown. She also doesn't display a lot of BPD symptoms either way. It's almost as if people who do not have mental disorders made this movie and the only people who like it are people who also don't have mental disorders. At least Angelina Jolie's acting was good and the camera shots were pretty. Poorly written.