In bed with chemicals After watching a documentary about Stephen Fry’s depression and hearing the word “Prozac” in it, I remembered that the film with the promising title “Prozac Nation” stuck somewhere deep in the list of those films that one day I would like to see.
Due to the fact that the film adaptation of the fight of the famous British gay man with his own demons somehow suddenly hooked, I decided to watch the Nation. And for nothing.
The film turned out to be a dummy with a “rouble swing” and a “penny blow”.
The problems of the heroine, either in connection with the wretched implementation of the painting itself, or in connection with the original book look ridiculous. All boys and girls in the period of rapid adolescence experience both the desire to represent something, and problems with the opposite sex.
God be with her, with ridiculousness. No less surprising is the dull play of actors who serve their presence in the frame clearly for the tick. The ladies’ part in the person of Ricci and Lange constantly throw into tantrums, roar unnaturally and generally make an impression at the end of the tired task assigned to them.
The male part, although present, is also absent in the picture. Biggs, who in life plays retarded Jews with sadness, and here is just as wooden and dull. There is also Jonathan Reese Meyers, but his participation is very conditional and generally imperceptible.
The game of boys as a whole can be justified by the fact that we are first of all female cinema (from the point of view of the cast, of course), men perform a purely functional role in it, periodically bringing chaos and tormented souls of heroines.
In the end, of course, the doctors are to blame, who, as it turns out, are happy to prescribe an hour of revelations a week mixed with chemicals to fill the voids and avoid misunderstandings.
The characters of the picture are cardboard, stilt, and you do not want to feel feelings like pity or compassion for them.
And in general, nothing but laughter, these attempts to make a psychological film, alas, do not cause.
3 out of 10
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