Jennifer30

10th Sep 2007

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Question: Why did Polly get a panic attack in the middle of the night?

Answer: If you listen to her yelling when they try to subdue her, she yells out "I'm ugly". This is most likely stemming from earlier when Angelina's character makes a comment about Polly never finding love because of the way she looks.

Jennifer30

Answer: Polly freaked out because she had seen Suazanna kissing her boyfriend earlier that day. Polly realised that is something she will never have.

Answer: When Suzana's boyfriend came, Polly realised no one will ever love or kiss her.

Question: Why was Daisy keeping the old chicken dinners under her bed?

Answer: It is very common for bulimics, as Daisy was, to be embarrassed by the food they eat. It's only natural for her to want to hide her eating habits. She states that when she gets 5, she has to throw them away. You can imagine the smell of 5 rotting chicken carcasses under your bed after 2 weeks. Her father seemed to be a very powerful man so therefore she has some special treatment and is allowed to indulge a little. As long as she's eating, they'll let her have the chicken.

Jennifer30

Answer: I believe it was both because of her being bulimic and also because both she and her father had a very "close" relationship to where it could be presumed as a sexual connection between her and her father, except she didn't want it. So, anytime she got a chicken breast from him, she would shove it under her bed and let it rot so that her father would smell it and want to either stop or hurry it up so she wouldn't have to endure so much.