The film is based on the best-selling novel and real events that took place before the antidepressants became popular in the mid-1980s. Describes a teenage woman, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Woodsellreceives a journalism scholarship to attend Harvard University. Raised by her divorced mother, Mrs. Wurtzel, since she was 2 years old , she misses her father and feels poor and depressed from a working-class family. During her first year of college, she lives with a roommate, Ruby, and is sexually enlightened with Noah Her article in the Crimson newspaper local column was honored by Rolling stone . Until Lizzie turns into sex and substance abuse while dating Rafe, her existential crisis and increased depression hurt friends who love her and her mother. Mrs Wurtzel sends her to Dr. Stirlingfor expensive psychiatric treatment, despite having trouble paying for her medicine and psychotherapy. After a long battle with antidepressants and suicide attempts, Lizzie's condition stabilized and adjusted to the real world on her path to becoming a successful journalist.
Prozac Nation movie plot
2022-03-21 08:01
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Trycia 2022-04-21 09:03:48
Depression can't sleep? Smart writing? Sexual experience love? Controlling motherhood? Treatment resistance? Accept the tangle? Childhood... Growth education is really important... Ps Chinese subtitles don't match up with English lines at all...
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Scarlett 2022-04-21 09:03:48
The heroine's lines are awesome, but other than that, the movie feels like a commercial for Prozac and Harvard.
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Ruby: When we're together, you're fine. You're fun, you...
Elizabeth: I'm faking it.
Ruby: Well, everybody does that.
Elizabeth: Not like me.
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Ruby: Look, we all have bad days.
Elizabeth: [narrating] This is what people say in situations when they don't know what else to say. Fuck, I don't know what to suggest either.
Ruby: I care about you, Lizzie.
Elizabeth: [narrating] What I want is for someone to understand. But they don't really. And that makes the platitudes harder to bear.