if youre come to this film to learn something about depression and forget it represent you would not learn anything except how not to write a screenplay on the subject . i understand the intent be to show how severe depression can turn an average person into a complete wreck and but the result be the most one dimensional character i have ever see in a hollywood feature . no small feat . christina ricci a elizabeth spend the entirety of this film scream at the top of her lung and viciously insult someone and burst into tear or some combination of the three ( the only exception be some quiet sulking at the beginning and end ) . there be not the slight hint of what she might be like without depression . not the faint glimmer of any other aspect of her personality . she just screams . at one point and her roommate tell her and lizzie and youre such a fun person to be around when youre not be depress and and my reaction be and she be . it seem odd that the writer would include this comment without give u any example and but this script be a lesson in incompetence . it have no discernible structure or flow at all while instead and it consist of a series of awkwardly strung together scene of lizzie screaming and then end . character development . no . scene of her everyday existence and i. e. go to class and that might possibly be important detail . no . scream at maximum volume . check . it not quite enough and i be afraid . negative .