this be one of the bad film i have ever see . i look into it mainly out of a morbid curiosity since i love the novel and and i wish i hadn not . i turn it off after a little less than an hour and though i want to turn it off after five minute . i wish i have . it disregard the novel a lot and change all sort of factor . unless the film manage to redeem itself in the last 50 or so minute ( which would be impossible ) i would in no way recommend this . it an insult to one of the great writer of the 20th century . i do not think and a many people say that it be and that the bell jar be necessarily unfilmable and but this particular rendition could have be do without . i would almost like to see this one day in the hand of a director and screenwriter who can do it justice .