Crazy (1999)

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Movie
German title Crazy
Original title Girl, interrupted
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director James Mangold
script James Mangold,
Lisa Loomer ,
Anna Hamilton Phelan
production Cathy Konrad ,
Douglas Wick
music Mychael Danna
camera Jack N. Green
cut Kevin Tent
occupation
synchronization

Crazy (original title: Girl, Interrupted ) is a psychological drama from 1999 with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in the leading roles. The film is based on the autobiography of Susanna Kaysen , who spent 18 months in a mental hospital.

action

The film is set in the late 1960s. After attempting suicide with ASA and vodka, 18-year-old Susanna ends up in the women's department of the Claymoore Hospital psychiatric clinic . She should stay there for recreation. In the clinic, Susanna meets other mentally ill women. Including the notorious liar Georgina, the disturbed Daisy and Polly, who is disfigured by fire. She also meets the station sister Valerie, who Susanna first takes under her wing and shows her around.

Georgina becomes Susanna's new roommate. While they are getting closer, Lisa (a sociopath ) is forcibly detained with the help of the police. Lisa had escaped earlier and now discovers that there is a new roommate in the house. She tears away from the medical assistants and barricades herself in Georgina and Susanna's room, where she asks about the whereabouts of Georgina's former roommate, Jamie , who was her best friend. The cornered Susanna of course knows nothing about Jamie, but before the situation escalates, Valerie can gain entry into the room and Lisa is forcibly separated from the others.

Susanna later learns from Georgina that Jamie had hanged himself with a volleyball net while Lisa's absence. Little by little, Susanna gets to know the two main doctors: Dr. Potts ("bald head therapist, the betrayed") and Dr. Wick ("Dr. Fick, the one with the sex tic").

Daisy turns out to be seriously mentally ill. She never eats with the others in the dining room and has no other social contacts. When Susanna pays her a visit, she learns Daisy's motivation: Most people like to be alone when the food comes out again (going to the toilet) and Daisy just likes to be alone when the food comes in. She also feeds mainly on fried chicken that her father brings for her and that she hides under the bed. Lisa interferes in the conversation, who loves to provoke Daisy and who ends up exchanging medication with Daisy that the girls had secretly not taken before.

One night all the patients in the ward meet and sneak into another wing of the building. First they secretly use the bowling alley with lots of laughter, then they break into Dr. Wicks a. There Lisa goes to Dr. Wicks and gives everyone present, like an honorary doctorate, his patient file.

Daisy is finally released as "cured" and moves into an apartment paid for by her father. On another day, a childhood friend visits Susanna. She immediately seeks sexual contact with him. However, she refuses his offer to come to Canada with him. She wants to stay with her friends.

That evening, Polly, who was watching Susanna and her boyfriend, had a fit of hysterics. She feels reaffirmed in her belief that her burn injury will never make her kiss her. Polly is then sedated and locked in a closed room, where she spends the whole evening crying. Lisa and Susanna take heart, get a guitar without permission from the music room and, after the station guard has been anesthetized, sit down in front of Polly's room. There they begin with an encouraging song ( Petula Clark Downtown ). When another station employee appears in the hallway and he wants to send the girls to their rooms, Susanna also looks for this sexual contact.

The next morning Lisa and Susanna are discovered who had fallen asleep in the hallway, and the station employee is with them. He is immediately transferred to the men's ward while Susanna and Lisa talk to Dr. Get wick. Lisa is transferred to another ward, Susanna learns from Dr. Wick said that her diagnosis ( borderline personality disorder ) had solidified because she had already sought several sexual contacts in one day and was thus promiscuous . In addition, Dr. Wick, Susanna should decide whether she wants to be healthy or crazy, for or against life. For this she uses the word “ ambivalent ”, which would describe Susanna's condition very well. But Susanna is unapologetic and spends her time in bed after the conversation until Sister Valerie simply pulls her up and puts her in a bathtub with cold water. Susanna loudly complains about the bad treatment, calls Claymoore a “fascist torture chamber” and insults Sister Valerie in all possible ways. She then calmly replies that Susanna can choose between health and illness, unlike many other patients, and that Susanna shouldn't just throw her life away.

One evening Lisa comes to Susanna completely relaxed and tells her about the electric shocks she had received for therapy. The two work out an escape plan in which they want to flee to Florida. But they only get to Daisy's apartment, where they stay for one night. Lisa provokes Daisy so much that she takes her own life the next morning. While Lisa shows herself to be unaffected and flees, Susanna waits in shock for the authorities in the house and lets herself be admitted again.

After a while, Lisa is also caught and steals Susanna's diary, in which Susanna has openly recorded her views and thoughts about her roommates. Lisa reads it to the other patients, who react indignantly, and thus stirs up a hostile mood towards Susanna. In a major riot, Lisa threatens to stab herself with a large needle, but gives up when Georgina soothes her with her words. Susanna gives Lisa a speech about her cold-heartedness and the life she will lead outside of the institution. She saw through Lisa, because she only feels alive within the clinic and can be something special. When hit, Lisa collapses.

Susanna is released the following day. Before she leaves, she says goodbye to all patients and visits Lisa, who is fixed in bed, to talk to her again. She says that she believes that Lisa will make it too, and that she will have to come and visit her then. The film ends with a monologue by the protagonist that most patients were discharged in the 1970s.

synchronization

The German synchronization was created under the dialogue director of Andreas Pollak on behalf of Hermes synchronous in Potsdam.

role actor Voice actor
Susanna Kaysen Winona Ryder Kellina Klein
Lisa Rowe Angelina Jolie Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Georgina Tuskin Clea DuVall Julia digit
Daisy Randone Brittany Murphy Ghadah Al-Akel
Polly Clark Elisabeth Moss Natascha Petz
Tobias Jacobs Jared Leto Dietmar miracle
Dr. Melvin Potts Jeffrey Tambor Bert Franzke
Dr. Sonia Wick Vanessa Redgrave Judy Winter
Valerie Owens Whoopi Goldberg Regina Lemnitz
Janet Webber Angela Bettis Claudia Lehmann
John Travis Fine Sebastian Jacob
Dr. Philip W. Crumble Kurtwood Smith Roland Hemmo
Cynthia Crowley Jillian Armenante Almut Zydra

criticism

“A clichéd film adaptation of autobiographical memories that tries in vain to arouse sympathy with involuntary comedy and a politically correct variety of topics. The acting performances of the two leading actresses alone stand out. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie are fighting a brave but hopeless battle against a directionless script."

- FOCUS Online

"Flat soul drama with lovely psychopaths."

- filmspiegel.de

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Crazy. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on July 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Crazy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Flemming shock: film review. filmspiegel.de, accessed on March 15, 2008