Girl, Interrupted: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes evident in ''Girl, Interrupted'' include: ===

 

* [[Broken Record]]: ''"Don't they know it's the end of the world..."''

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Cynthia.

* [[Crashing Dreams]]: The "checks" that interrupt Susanna's flashback daydreams early in the film.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: Ruby the cat.

* [[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.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: There is great exchange in the trailer that never made it into the finished film:

{{quote| '''Dr. Wick:''' Is there something about sex which lifts your feelings of despair?<br />

* [[Parental Incest]]: {{spoiler|Daisy and her father.}}

* [[Race Lift]]: Valerie is white in the book. In the movie, she is played by [[Whoopi Goldberg]].

* [[Self Harm]]: Susanna in the novel, and Daisy in the film.

* [[The Shrink]]: Obviously. Several varieties.

* [[Title Drop]]: In Susanna's opening narrative.