Prozac Nation - Movie Trailer

[blackwayfarers]

never saw the movie, but the book was so stupid. i've had depression. anyway my younger cousin saw i had the book and had heard about it i guess, and she wanted to read it. she seemed kind of depressed but i'm guessing she'd read it. a couple years later, she'd seemed like a copy of elizabeth wurtzel.

[Lucasimo]

I'm not sure about this movie trailer. It seems to me to glamorise depression as something that is "cool" or trendy or maybe a bit nerdy because "not everyone is quite like that" The truth is - it fucking hurts like hell, every day is like climbing a never ending mountain and you cannot even begin to imagine what it is like to go through unless you have either lived with someone who has suffered from it or have actually had it.

[walrus88011]

@Lucasimo Even the book tends to glamourize depression. I'm writing an essay comparing this book to Girl, Interrupted and it seems to me Wurtzel magnifies her illness to get attention while Kaysen tries to minimize her's. I feel this book/movie isn't true to mental illness and she isn't a good role model b/c she doesn't handle her sickness the way she should. Maybe she's avoiding the never ending mountain climb through glorifying it?

[phoney98]

ok..caus im sick of seeing films which make menta illness look like 'da bomb' for yall who dont hav depression this is what its like: u get really fat, or anorexic, u sleep all the time, u lose all ur friends, u quit ur job n become a burden on ur parents. unfortunately 4 the majority of us its not pill popping n clubbing, jus sleep n wrist cutting.

[Eric090307]

@phoney98 what, your idea of "da bomb" is going out clubbing and popping pills? thats just your opinion. now stop wasting mine and everyone elses time in reading your dumb ass fuck negative comment, and perhaps go get a life. This film does not make mental illness look like "da bomb". this is probably why you are depressed, because you dont know how too really have fun. Cunt.

[phoney98]

@Eric090307 -.- i think a lot of young ppl would agree that the night life is 'da bomb'..i didnt get this impression from a vacumm. as 4 the rest of ur comments -relax :^) i didnt mean 2 de-value her suffering or say that her depression is not that bad becaus...i meant that the media only ever portrays the illness as something adventorous, an exciting epiphany. for the majority of sufferers we do not look like movie stars, r not absurdely talented or wealthy. mayb the book is different, i dunno.

[Eric090307]

@phoney98 its not that you are devalueing her suffering, but that you are disrepecting my favourite kind of movies - mental illness movies. maybe i overreacted a little bit. You didnt really need to comment, because its obvious that the media is going to over exagerate her life, so they can earn more money. but besides, i think your mixed up, when she became really depressed she didnt have that much of a nightlife. And dont forget its UNIVERSITY, its bount to be mad there, depressed or not

[TheMollxox]

@phoney98 I agree, I'm depressed and I wouldn't say I' m anorexic but just very skinny, I have an eating disorder due to depression , sleep all the time , lost all my friends, and other worse things too. But I guess you could make you're depression like she did in this film,if you really wanted to.

[phoney98]

@TheMollxox it sucks heh? iv been hospitalised twice this year already for 2 suicide attempts so i had to drop out of university and quit my job. now i just stay at home and sleep all day. so i guess when i saw this trailer it just made me really furious because i wanted to know that some one else knew how i felt so i wouldnt b so alone, instead i c this skinny, dancing, talented person having sex..i just felt more pathetic, more alone.

[LibertineDeSade]

I love this movie. Haven't seen it in ages. I think I'm going to have to watch it now. Thanks for posting!

[aliasgrl18]

I really enjoy watching this movie, the story, the narration, is really interesting. Unfortunately its not accurate to that of the real Elizabeth Wurtzel's life. Thanks for uploading the trailer. I love seeing it over and over. Kind of a boost to my writings.

[aliasgrl18]

I really love the trailer, the movie itself is okay. But the trailer does a terrific job making it seem like its an awesome movie.