Eyes

I am legit going to have nightmares after seeing the movie Girl, Interrupted. Angelina Jolie's character, Lisa has the most disturbing eyes I've seen since Voldomort's in Harry Potter. They were so captivating it was impossible to look away. In the movie, she sucked everyone into her world, dark and demented that it was. Susanna was not crazy when she went into the institution, but being around Lisa, and seeing her eyes, and subsequently getting sucked into a dark and twisted world by them, she began to see the world through those eyes. This slowly drove her crazy. I think that when we have friends who we are so close to we spend every waking hour with them, like Lisa and Susanna, we begin to see the world through the other person's eyes. And in the case of Susanna, it drove her even more crazy than she already was. It is often said that eyes are the windows to one's soul, and in the case of Lisa, this is true. The viewer looks at her, when she is staring deep into the camera and you know that somewhere in her is a little girl who is starving for attention. She controls everyone around her because she feels like she has no one and no control of her own life, and by controlling everyone else's mind she has a purpose in life. The despair that I saw in her eyes was heartwrenching and at the same time, I know that, because it was the 60's her condition, whatever it may be, probably went untreated or misdiagnosed. Something that modern medicine could have helped, drove a young women to the depths of despair. And this despair was evident in her eyes.