Here comes Prozac Nation--The Movie

Apple Movie Trailer Site ^ | 5/23/2003

[ArcLight]

At last, the movie version of Elizabeth Wurtzel's bestseller Prozac Nation is coming to the screen. Wonder why it took so long? Here's a clue:

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, published in 1994, was Elizabeth Wurtzel's first memoir, a bestseller that focused a huge amount of attention on its author. When Wurtzel was interviewed a few months ago by Jan Wong of the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, she made some very unfortunate and ill-timed remarks about a certain event that happened right in her own neighborhood on September 11, 2001.

"I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought: This is a really strange art project," she claimed. About the collapse of the second tower, she remarked, "It was a most amazing sight in terms of sheer elegance. It fell like water. It just slid, like a turtleneck going over someone's head. ... It was just beautiful."

Furthermore, she couldn't see why everyone was making such a fuss about the Trade Center collapse with its 3000-plus fatalities: "I just felt, like, everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me."

[TheBigB]

Wurtzel is just another Gen-X airhead who feels sorry for herself that no one sees just how "brilliant" she truly is.

That being said, the movie features Christina Ricci's first ever topless scene. I foresee lots of fast-forwading snd freeze-framing.

[willowpar]

Furthermore, she couldn't see why everyone was making such a fuss about the Trade Center collapse with its 3000-plus fatalities: "I just felt, like, everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me."

What a disgustingly vacuous bimbo. I think I'll pass on her movie.

[netmilsmom]

Please don't give this drug addicted, self-absorbed, idiot a penny of your cash.
If you want to see the movie and anyone's breasts, please download it off Kaaza.

[cake_crumb]

"I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought: This is a really strange art project," she claimed. About the collapse of the second tower, she remarked, "It was a most amazing sight in terms of sheer elegance. It fell like water. It just slid, like a turtleneck going over someone's head. ... It was just beautiful."

Wurtzel can be used as the definition of inhumanity. She talks like a sociopath and therefore can have nothing intelligent to say about the neuroses of others.

I'm not watching her movie.

[ruppertdog]

Will be called "irreverent and darkly fascinating" by critics. Probably an entertaining journey into a life that 99.9% of us actively seek to avoid.

On the 9/11 quotes, talk to anyone who is on prozac and you may find the reaction of this chick is similar to the way many other heavy duty anti-depressant users react to everything, good or bad. I knew a girl in high school who thought everything was just fine all of the time because of prozac and could see her saying these things about 9/11.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Furthermore, she couldn't see why everyone was making such a fuss about the Trade Center collapse with its 3000-plus fatalities: "I just felt, like, everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me."

I guess she really does take Prozac.

Lots and lots and lots of it.

[thmiley]

Wurtzel can be used as the definition of inhumanity. She talks like a sociopath and therefore can have nothing intelligent to say about the neuroses of others.

That kind of comment is exactly what I would expect from somebody on an SSRI drug. I was fooled into using Zoloft (an SSRI class drug) a few years ago. That stuff made me f***ing weird.

I felt like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, only without the compassion. Thank G-d I got off the stuff.

Your analysis of sociopath is right on the money, only it's a chemically-induced sociopathology. That stuff should be banned!

[buffyt]

Wurtzel was stoned out of her gourd on 9/11.

[buffyt]

When I went through menopause I was depressed so my doctor gave me Zoloft and hormones. The hormones were fine, for a while. I took them for a year or two. But the Zoloft, I took for two or three days and it turned me into a walking Zombie. I just wanted to sleep for 24 hours a day. I felt nothing other than drowzy. No anger, happiness, pain, etc. I told my doctor. He said "Well, that is no good." So I stopped taking it. SHeeSH! what do they want, a nation of friggin ZOMBIES?????????