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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
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3
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5/15
5/15:
When I saw Girl, Interrupted in 1999, my jaw dropped to the floor because I couldn't believe Angelina
Jolie won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress which is the stupidest thing ever.
Angelina Jolie has never been a good actress, and to this day, I fail to see her appeal. I wonder if she slept
around so much for the Oscar. After seeing Girl, Interrupted again, my opinion hasn't changed the slightest
bit. Damn long and repetitive by going through the motions, it's the feminist teenage pop version of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Winona Ryder thought she did enough to win the Oscar, but the reality is: she's breathtaking awful and fake
and plays herself too much for the umpteenth time. In short, Winona Ryder has no depth and thinks that opening her
eyes wide open to show off her black dilated pupils is the trick to acting. Take a look at the movie
poster for what I mean.
Angelina Jolie is equally bad. She, replete with puffy fish lips, looks more like a heroin addict than a mental
patient which isn't further from the truth because she's actually a heroin addict and was probably using a
lot of it during the filming to make herself more believable. Strangely, nobody resembles a person with
borderline personality disorder or some kind of mental illness. In other words, they're all pretending.
Brittany Murphy has a funny twist of irony by unintentionally committing suicide a decade later due to her
history of drug abuse and eating disorder given that her character hanged herself in the film. On the other
hand, Whoopi Goldberg appears ready to join the Black Panther Party.
All in all, Angelina Jolie's Best Supporting Actress Oscar should've gone to Chloë Sevigny for
Boys Don't Cry.