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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Remember Prozac Nation?

Slate reviews the long awaited release - fav quote du jour in special colour below:

For all the drama around its long-delayed release, Prozac Nation is not all that terrible a movie. It's certainly no worse than Sylvia, another recent film about a depressed writer-lady, in which Gwyneth Paltrow played a doomed (yet curiously radiant! And WASP-ily indomitable!) Sylvia Plath. Unlike Paltrow's, Ricci's performance has nothing self-congratulatory or softening about it. Her Lizzie Wurtzel isn't a "difficult woman" (to crib from Bitch's euphemistic subtitle) – she's a total f***ing bitch. Maybe even a c**t, or a t**t. Oblivious to the mere concept of other people's existence, she lies, whines, pouts, and rages, all the while hoovering down drugs and male attention with equal voraciousness. Seconds after hurling herself sobbing into the arms of her immature but loving mother (the eternally compelling Jessica Lange), she's pulling away to shriek, "I'm not your goddamn monkey!" at earsplitting volume. After casually seducing the boyfriend of her inexplicably patient college roommate, Ruby (Michelle Williams), La Lizzie offers an excuse for the ages: "It was, um, an accidental blowjob?"

Not the one you thought I'd like, was it?

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