false 4 0 false false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 16:31:29 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 18:15:33 -0700 2009 Movie Of The Week Blog. From there I learned that it had been a memoir before it was a film, about a girl institutionalized in the 1960s.

This book seems to fall into the grand tradition of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Bell Jar." It is simply and lucidly written, and I was able to finish it in one afternoon. Unlike "The Bel Jar," where Plath's madness came on confusedly quick and seemingly out of nowhere, Kaysen's own illness is easy to relate to, for example, when she is sedated at the dentist and upon waking is anxious and confused about how much time has passed. It's easy to see here how the lines between sanity and insanity can be blurred, and how close we all are to the latter. ]]>