It doesn't do the book any justice at all. The movie was all around weak. I can't even begin to type all the things that were wrong with the movie. The acting was good...but that's it. What a dissapointment. Prozac Nation is my favorite book and I hate to see it butchered like the film did.
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I have heard that Elizabeth Wurtzel badmouthed the film when it came out. Perhaps she thought that the film was not truthful to the book or did not describe her experiences accurately. But I suspect that many people disliked the film precisely because it portrayed only too accurately the self-obsessed, insufferable megalomaniac that she really was. I have not read the book and have no intention to buy my own copy and contribute to the finances of some author who turned her depression into some kind of show spectacle.
Elizabeth called Prozac Nation “a horrible movie”, but the truth was that it was a film about a horrible person who succeeded only in tormenting everyone around her and did not care. Instead, she blamed all her own troubles on the others - including those who loved or cared for her. The filmmakers were apparently aware of the selfishness in Wurtzel’s behavior and the stress and harm she caused to those around her. I haven’t read the book, but I seriously doubt if the author had been as honest. Christina Ricci was pretty and showed some fine acting. She also showed some nice boobs - and that was how many people came to know about this film in the first place. But even if the real Wurtzel did only half of the bad things that were shown in the film, it was just inconceivable how Ricci or the scriptwriter/director - no matter how talented - could have succeeded in drawing any sympathy towards an ultimately repulsive character.
I have to agree, this was complete and total trash. As someone else said, even the title is misleading, I thought it would be about the effects of Prozac, her dependency, how it changed her life, instead it was just a backdrop towards the end. But nice way to sell books though, everyone's heard of Prozac, why not throw it out there, I guess.
I'm of the opinion that Ms. Wurtzel is a psychotic, narcissistic bitch who badmouthed this movie only because she hates herself and didn't seeing what a whining, wretched slunt she was/is. I, like many, have never read the book and don't plan to because she's came off as too unlikeable to bear. I can't imagine having to suffer through page after page of it.
After the her comments on 9/11 I'm done with her. She has no conscience and no real grasp of what it's like to function as anything but a self centered brat.
I too suffer from clinical depression and have since I was 16 (im 20 now) and even though there are times when I can get a bit irritable (like when I run out of meds), I dont cut down my friends and family. I 'm more inclined to sleep a lot and have little interaction with people. If anything she had BPD (Borderline), or Bipolar Disorder. There is no way in hell i'd be caught dead acting like this.
I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for her and her drug and alcohol induced depression.
I take a little Chigurh in my coffee.http://i26.tinypic.com/1zvbxah.jpg