"Girl, Interrupted" (1999) - Deleted Scenes w/ Director's Commentary

[@-book]

something always felt missing in the movie and this completely explains it

[@chardem.5743]

The fact they didn’t put some of these scenes in the movie to better understand suzann really helped Lisa outshine her and seemed to Make the movie more about her

[@Droidruid1993]

hey you got to give Angelina what she's worth I'm am right

[@chardem.5743]

Boredthom she carried the weight if the movie no doubt

[@thanosdarkseid8695]

WHAT I JUST TYPED TOO..........she coulda won the oscar instead

[@WildVee]

@@Droidruid1993 Angelina was wonderful, her performance was incredible, but the story was about _Suzanne,_ not Lisa. The deleted scenes would've helped us understand her struggles more if they were included.

[@coreycox2345]

@@WildVee I disagree. One character helps define the other, Vee. If you met these two in life, it is the impression you would have. The story that is about each is interior, but we catch glimpses.

[@randommemer1345]

I’ve seen people say that Lisa (Angelina Jolie) made this movie but I think that what they forget is that it was the portrayal of the toxic friendship that her and Susanna have. Susanna (Winona Ryder) played the follower role very well. Susanna was just as vital to the plot as Lisa. And watching how Susanna changed as a character with Lisa being around and once she’s gone is very vital to the meaning of the story. Also, Susanna plays a vital role in finally waking Lisa up and showing her that she is just as weak as the rest of them. Winona was just a phenomenal as Angelina and their chemistry is what made the movie so impactful.

[@AWalkingHat]

The Aspirin overdose scene and the freaky hallucinations / dissociative episodes that preceded it should have definitely been included. It wasn't that long.

[@AvecPoesie]

Absolutely agree...it is vital context.

[@BassGal92]

The only reason why I feel like the overdose scene was not included was fear of copycats being influenced by that scene. It happens years later in Degrassi when Ellie cuts herself as her form of self harm and a lot of people (me included) started doing it because we never knew we could ineffectively cope that way.

[@mizzbee1477]

As someone who has suffered mental illness in early adulthood. The first cut scenes with the delusions are very accurate. It is less of hallucination and more like just a loss of reality

[@beandipgirl7151]

i relate im going through this right now :(

[@HuGo-tx3mn]

It is so nice to see these deleted scenes. It clarifies a lot about what happened in the movie.

[@CoralineMoth]

Winona’s acting is so good I’m sad that they took these scenes out.

[@ginnymiller2448]

They should have left in the scenes with Susanna in the museum, and Susanna with her mother and the piano. Those really helped to understand better what was going on in her head. The scene with the blood gushing out from the meat at the store was just silly, though.

[@camogrrl]

Winos terrible fake “fall to the floor” doomed that scene from the start.

[@karondukez3550]

Wtf these where some good scenes. If this was in the movie I would have understood Susanne better

[@Busboss1811]

Karon Dukez read the fuckin book

[@victoriarose5753]

@@Busboss1811 some didnt love you enough when you were little lmaoo being salty on a comment on youtube

[@Busboss1811]

victoria rose what’s salty?

[@camogrrl]

I was compelled to read the book. I also listened to Susannah narrate the audio book. It’s short. You should read or listen to it.

[@heartsmyfaceforever8140]

We’re not supposed to understand her better. We’re supposed to be on the journey with her from her point of view of not believing she needed help snd that she was normal unlike the other people at the facility. she starts to see shes not alright as the movie progresses and begins to accept therapy

[@racangela2995]

Sad but true movie, I wish they would make more movies like these

[@camogrrl]

Peolpe who won’t read or listen to books miss out on all the great creativity in the authors mind and vision. when they wait for a movie to “interpret” a genuis writer you’re not experiencing Susannahs voice but the directors and actors interpretation. Why no more book reading? Tv media isn’t the only art form you know. Eg the famous ‘handmaids tale’ isn’t even the best thing Margaret wrote! Oryx and crake blew my mind.

[@AvecPoesie]

​@@camogrrl I find myself wishing more people read books 📚 for pleasure.

[@camogrrl]

Some of the best dialogue comes straight out of Susanna‘s book. you should read the book because her phrasing, the way she illuminates and describes these complex behaviours and feelings is on every page and every sentence and every word of that book. here it only shows up as Angelina reads Winonas’ diary out.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

[@readerofmanga]

James Mangold should make and release a director's cut.

[@cpierce4562]

I'd watch the whole thing, happily!

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..

[@therebex23]

I feel like these scenes would have better allowed the viewer to understand Susanna's condition/diagnosis and why she was put in the institution (separate from reading the memoir). The first time I watched it I was like "but...she's not mentally unstable so why is she there?" But I guess maybe that's the point of the final cut of the film as well? Since we are experiencing it all through Susanna's view, we/she wouldn't "know" what we perceived/how we behaved was different than what was considered normal/healthy/functioning.

[@kaitlynm9463]

You thought she was mentally stable? Lmfao?

[@beemurcer3148]

Would love to see it uncut with all scenes left in

[@Wolfmanluv]

0:55 that is so eerie!

[@jaybabe7767]

I know everyone talks about how hot scarlet Johansson and gal gadow is but damn Angelina is like one in a million years beauty. Like an Eisenstein or tesla but of hotness and i think she was able to channel crazy so easily but she is Fucking crazy but damn I forgot how absolutely jaw dropping beautiful she was in her prime and she is meant to look bad in this but she still is hotter then the sun.

[@franemartinic2521]

To be fair Angelina is probably more popular than either of them. They made money because of Marvel and some good movies, but Jolie is probably the highest class of Hollywood stars, she, Johnny Depp and Di Caprio. Even if her movies choice wasn't really great. It is more about her looks and charisma. What Marilyn Monroe was for 20th century, Angelina is probably for 21th century. All these women who are doing plastic surgeries just want to look like her, lips, nose, cheeks, jaw, eyes...

[@yeetnama9094]

Einstein was a plagiarist a thief a Communist and a fraud. That comparison is a very bad one, as the aforementioned are tragically common..

[@yeetnama9094]

@@franemartinic2521 Fuck Johnny Depp. He is NOT a great actor and a worse human being.

[@JM-mr6pz]

Its really a damn shame to take half of these scenes out of the movie. It makes me feel different about the final cut.

[@DannyM.D.N.A]

Almost all These scenes are scenes from The book It’s a damn shame they got the cut

[@paesitopaez4302]

Damn, such shame some of this got cut out of the film

[@koolaidman6251]

Shrink looks and sounds like Dr Phil

[@victoriarose5753]

I said the same thing

[@leostarsigngirl6914]

The vision where she saw herself going back whilst on her way to the hospital should have been left in and bathroom one and shop scene with the meat and the blood that was the build up .

[@marisoldiaz8058]

They should do a Reunion! Yes please

[@Wolfmanluv]

It wouldn't be the same without Britney Murphy, she died in 2009 :(

[@redviolet7826]

Stacy She wolf And sadly she died in the movie too :(

[@watercolourferns]

this is why if the director, editors, and producers have no knowledge of, don't suffer from or have no sympathy for mental illnesses they shouldn't create movies depicting them. They care more about the pace and length than about actually telling a mentally ill person's story. all these scenes make Suzanna an actual BPD patient and would've made it so much easier for people to understand her illness. Instead she needed up looking like a rebellious young adult that was "driving herself crazy". Valerie's scene saying that shouldn't have been in the movie, it was too harmful and perpetuates the idea that BPD sufferers are just doing it for attention... Yet they didn't care and just made it as fast paced and as dramatic as possible... The movie with these scenes in it is so much different, I wonder if there's an official director's cut copy...

[@someidiot420]

yeah, unfortunately what a lot of directors/writers/producers dont understand is that the reality of mental illness is not a neat, organized storyline with clear cut motivations. its ugly, and messy, and it never really ends. trying to make art out of that is incredibly difficult. show too much, and the audience is quickly gonna become disengaged. show too little and they get a really bad picture of what it looks like, what the people suffering from it look like. it takes someone who has the experience and the skill to really toe that line.

[@lissetcarranza3249]

well they're artists, not social workers

[@watercolourferns]

@@lissetcarranza3249 this is based off a book by the real Susanna Kaysen. It's HER story. They didn't care to tell it correctly. They didn't even include the scene why she called the book Girl, Interrupted! You don't need to be a social worker to tell a mentally ill person's story correctly, smarty pants, you just need to care.

[@watercolourferns]

@@someidiot420 they could've followed the book more, it would've been easier for them.

[@lissetcarranza3249]

@@watercolourferns huh. i didnt think that was your initial point. vale pues, supongo

[@ratluvrr15]

some of these scenes should’ve been added ;(

[@beandipgirl7151]

I will never forgive these idiots for not keeping these scenes. especially the ones with hallucinations and breakdowns. the directors made the movie less real. bpd was portrayed so wrong in the movie just off the basis of the movie's info within the movie. This movie was more about a anti social abuser to other patients than union. it could have been both but so much less lisa and more suzanna and the other girls stories.

[@robertsander8509]

Nobody gets better? B.S.-I did.

[@MarianneHekkema9116]

I always wondered, what if they ran out of cigarettes? How can they get new ones since not everyone is allowed to leave the ward?

[@BassGal92]

Sympathetic nurses.

[@MarianneHekkema9116]

@@BassGal92 Ohh i get it, thats so sweet!

[@abundantstar9394]

There might even have been a cigarette vending machine on the premises. Those existed back then.

[@redrover182]

What song is Susanna’s mother playing

[@Droidruid1993]

daaamn I like those very much

[@jenniferfeliu7905]

And, now the girl on the bed has an interaction with Winona Ryder that isnt that sweet shes going through her own hormonal situation and isnt old enough to handle her situation without bad thoughts through her mind related to sex.

[@jenniferfeliu7905]

( =a shot isnt right the group shot to winona ryder that is completely uncalled for

[@Lena-ni6bk]

The piano song 13:10 🖤

[@miakatarina3377]

Eminem

[@wolf_sshit]

Wonder why they took it out

[@Sameoldfitup]

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[@babbisp1]

Nts

[@noaccount7595]

So it is true Daisy love being her daddy's mistress

[@Jimmylenaze]

na she gets tortured

[@blondespitfire]

@@Jimmylenaze She’s trapped in it, because she’s so messed up from his abuse that she can’t work and take care of herself…she’s totally dependent on her father’s financial support.

[@Jimmylenaze]

@@blondespitfire the financial support is the least impactful element

[@kaitlynm9463]

@@Jimmylenaze it’s one driving reason why people get dependent on abusers. It’s literally textbook.

[@slowednreverbbg5175]

stockholm syndrome

[@alisiademi]

As an animal rights activist I wish they did keep the meat scene solely to help people connect to the violence