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Post by lordhowl on Dec 30, 2009 13:34:46 GMT -5
Many of you probably wouldn't like this take on it, but one way to look at in this film is from the angle of mental illness.
In a way, it's really about two sisters whose close relationship shatters when one becomes mentally ill. In this take, the werewolf is not adolescence, it hijacks adolescence. Ginger happens to be at the most frequent age of onset. Her mental symptoms are of bipolar illness. She's alternately powerful and belligerent and then very depressed to where she cuts on herself.
As somebody who struggles with "the curse" of bipolar illness, the film really resonated with me.
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nat
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Post by nat on Dec 30, 2009 14:03:04 GMT -5
I can defiantly see the connection between bi-polarism and werewolfism. During a stay at a psychiatric hospital, I met a few people suffering from Bi-polar disorder, and it actually inspired a werewolf story that I wrote later. Weird how easy it is to make connections with werewolves.
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Post by lordhowl on Dec 30, 2009 18:21:54 GMT -5
I can defiantly see the connection between bi-polarism and werewolfism. During a stay at a psychiatric hospital, I met a few people suffering from Ni-polar disorder, and it actually inspired a werewolf story that I wrote later. Weird how easy it is to make connections with werewolves. Incredibly, this is the first movie that i know of that actually makes that connection. And puts it in the context of "real life." By that, I mean that almost everyone goes to high school and deals with the cliques there and has a best friend. Not everyone, say, lives in the Overlook Hotel over the winter, or goes on an scientific expedition to the arctic. When Ginger "snaps" she goes manic. She's manic when she drags Trina into the house. Just listen to how fast she's talking, and how little Brigitte can keep up with her thoughts. Previously, after she beat Trina up, she says and does nothing rational from that point on. And she tries to pick a fight with Brigitte and then with Sam. But then she gets remorseful. At the table for the last time, she's asks if her Dad could teach her to drive, because next year might never come. She's thinking of suicide. We go from there to the scene where she is trying to cut her tail off.
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