Movie review Prozac Nation (2005)

Prozac Nation certainly took it’s time making it’s way to the picture shelves. Still it’s blink-and-you- missed-it firing in 2003 effectively piqued one’s wonder. In spitefulness of it’s decidedly negative critical reception the look-alike of Christina Ricci sitting tits-ahoy fully nude on a bed was sufficiency to hold the film alive and well in the back of one’s cortex. Ricci’s transition from child star to grownup actress hasn’t been the smoothest matter, but the fact that her white meat development has so consistently out-paced her maturation as an actress has for certain kept an avid cinema buff like myself interested in her career. From the photo accompanying this review it’s difficult to accurately infer if Fluoxetine Nation was filmed before or after her white meat reduction surgery. As thin as she is in this film it could well get been earlier the regrettable regression, but my storage of her mammaries in (2003’s) Monster and her ample gourds in (2002’s) Pumpkin didn’t add up until I checked imdb and conditioned that Fluoxetine hydrocholoride Nation was shot in (2001).
Even stranger is co-star Jason Biggs - who appears much old in this film than he did along english Ricci’s doomed D-cups in Woody Allen’s (2003) movie Anything Else. The solely answer to this mystery must be the weight loss, because the boobs displayed above (while manifestly smaller than the twin towers of say Sleepyheaded Hollow, are rather robust when compared to the streamlined models unveiled in the recent Cursed. If apologies are necessary for such a lengthy preamble, I suppose the reason all this mammary-mindedness has to do with the fact that Prozac Commonwealth is goose egg if not flat as a pancake.
Based on Lizzie Wurtzel’s autobiographical novel of the same name, Prozac Res publica chronicles the troubled collegial years of the writer herself. To put it simply Lizzie Wurtzel is a piece of work out. Trying to put her messed-up childhood behind her by attending Harvard, Lizzie quite chop-chop manages to alienate everyone within earshot. Her clinical Depression coupled with some sort of bottomless pit of self-loathing causes her to abuse everyone in her living. After making friend’s with roommate Michelle Williams, she rather chop-chop skids out of command in a blur of indiscriminate sexual urge and do drugs abuse. And before the second act she’s managed to give birth sex with Williams’ dead on target love - permanently destroying her relationship with the only person willing to take a chance on being friends with this mean-spirited loose cannon.
Ricci narrates the film and there are a few moments of light - in particular she wins a Wheeling Stone coverage award for a lurid treatise on a Lou Reed concert. This section of the film and Reed’s surreal turn is certainly compelling and you have to credit Ricci with her willingness to play such a vile individual. Her perverse and self-destructive knife makes it impossible to like this character, even though your instinct is to root for her to get the best her black-hearted tendencies. But she is just so relentlessly dark and ugly to everyone (particularly her mother - played by Jessica Dorothea Lange in some other one of those "harried martyr" roles she seems to have gravitated toward) that it in the end becomes a hopeless cause.
Prozac Carry Nation was directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg (don’t expect spell check to help you out with that one) who did a often better job with the Pacino/Robin Tennessee Williams thriller Insomnia - his difficulty in finding a workable calendar method for this film is palpable. Much of what takes place is so obviously designed to shock the audience that you do go somewhat immune to Lizzie’s ways. Merely just when you think there may be some hope for her to sustain a few successive days of relative normalcy (particularly during her tryst with Jason Biggs - who she perceives as her savior) the fiend that seems to control her tongue looses something that exactly lays lay waste to to whatsoever chance of it.
Despite her bravado, Ricci isn’t able to really carry off the part - the scenes with her estranged father are contrived beyond feeling - even worse ar the scenes where she torches her poor grandparents just to spite her Mother. The acting during these bits is zippo short of awful - and even an previous pro like Lange can’t salvage anything resembling good acting throughout much of the film. Rarely does her used neurotic motherness ring dead on target - she just seems to shamble off the rails with no net idea of what her character is all nearly. Which is to aver nothing of the knotty accent she unsuccessfully chases from top to bed.
The veridical laughing fatuousness of the film is Anne Heche’s portrayal of a analyst - I half expected Robert Downey Jr. to pop up as her drug-abuse counselor. Prozac Land should make at the very least played as an insightful glimpse into the nature of mental illness - but even though there are several scenes between Ricci and Heche, in that respect is zip to be gained from them in terms of . . ..well in terms of anything.
For all it’s frank and raw goings-on, and it’s hollow message about the numbing-down of a carry Nation courtesy of the proliferation of psych-meds, Prozac Land is finally a defective movie around a bad person, that I pot only recommend if you’re like me and get an obsessive interest in Christina Ricci’s tits. The film is no tease in that department, you certainly don’t need to use your pause clitoris to catch an sizeable dose of those most mysterious melons.
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