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* [[Based on a True Story]]: The film is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen. It's not the most faithful adaptation in the world, but it's still recognizable.
* [[Break Him By Talking|Breaking Speech]]: Lisa's specialty. One of the nurses had to be taken away in a straightjacket due to her doing this, {{spoiler|and drives poor Daisy to suicide with one.}} At the end, Susanna delivers her one.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Every patient, since they're young and mentally ill, with many having a [[Freudian Excuse]].
* [[Broken Record]]: ''"Don't they know it's the end of the world..."''
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Lisa doesn't sugarcoat anything.
* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Cynthia. [[Values Dissonance]] applies here, since at the time homosexuality was considered a mental disease.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]
* [[Crashing Dreams]]: The "checks" that interrupt Susanna's flashback daydreams early in the film.
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* [[Double Standard]]: Not the film, but the morality of the time. Susanna's promiscuity is considered pathological and she asks if the reaction would have been the same, had she been male.
* [[Draft Dodging]]: {{spoiler|After being drafted, Susanna's boyfriend tries to get her to run away with him to Canada.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Susanna attempting it (despite her denying claims) is what got her committed to the institution. {{spoiler|A former patient called Jamie (and former resident of Susanna's room) hung herself, as does Daisy later in the film. Lisa tries to kill herself after her [[Villainous Breakdown]], but Georgina stops her.}}
* [[Erotic Eating]]: The "nuts" scene in the ice cream parlor.
* [[Fingore]]: Susanna accidentally slams her fingers in a heavy sliding door towards the end of the film.
* [[Hollywood New England]]: Claymoore is in suburban Boston.
* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Averted. Susanna and Lisa's rendition of "Downtown" is realistically off-key, and is one of the film's more heartwarming moments.
* [[How We Got Here]]
* [[Jerkass]]: To call [[The Sociopath|Lisa]] this is an [[Understatement]], though she does have [[Pet the Dog]] moments.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Lisa's speech to Daisy, {{spoiler|which proves to be the latter's breaking point}}.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Lisa. To best illustrate, her reaction to ''{{spoiler|discovering a freshly-hanged corpse}}'' is to scoff "Aw, what an idiot" and loot its pockets.
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Lisa to Daisy, and later Susanna to Lisa.
* [[Self-Harm]]: Susanna in the novel, and Daisy in the film.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:
* [[The Shrink]]: Obviously. Several varieties.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Lisa is diagnosed as such.
* [[Title Drop]]: In Susanna's opening narrative.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Lisa at the end.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Happens during a flashback showing Susanna having her stomach pumped.
* [[Wham! Line]]: This exchange:
{{quote|'''Daisy''': My father loves me.
'''Lisa''': I bet. {{spoiler|With every ''inch'' of his manhood.}}}}
** And she doesn't stop there:
{{quote|'''Lisa''': Everybody knows that {{spoiler|he fucks you.}} What they don't know... is that ''you like it''.}}
** Susanna delivers one to Lisa when she demands an explanation for why no one presses her buttons, sending Lisa into a [[Villainous Breakdown]]:
{{quote|'''Lisa''': You know, there's too many buttons in the world. There's too many buttons and they're just... they're just ''begging'' to be pressed, and it makes me wonder, it really makes me fucking wonder, why doesn't anyone ever press mine? Why am I so neglected? Why doesn't anyone reach in and rip out the truth and tell me that I'm a fucking whore, or that my parents wish I were dead?
'''Susanna''': ''BECAUSE YOU'RE '''DEAD ALREADY''', LISA!''}}
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