I found this movie to be a poorly done film about an interesting topic. I expected to see the cruelty and disregard for the human rights of the inmates. I expected to see the indifference of the hospital staff. All of that was nothing new. So, I was expecting a great script and acting, a new approach to the horrors of the asylum. I got none of that. And, I was constantly distracted by the terrible wig on the main character! The very least they could have done was to buy and fit the wig so that it LOOKED real.
The ways in which they had Nelly Bly speak back to the nurses and doctors suggested to me that she WAS crazy, or should I say the writer was crazy! No sane person, undercover in such a cruel place, would dare to speak up as Nellie did. She supposedly had no idea when, or if, she would eventually get out, and yet she continued to challenge the nurses and doctors. Did she have a death wish? Nonsense!
The history that was written at the end said that Nelly spend 8 days in the asylum. The way it was written it seemed like she was there for months!
The ways in which they had Nelly Bly speak back to the nurses and doctors suggested to me that she WAS crazy, or should I say the writer was crazy! No sane person, undercover in such a cruel place, would dare to speak up as Nellie did. She supposedly had no idea when, or if, she would eventually get out, and yet she continued to challenge the nurses and doctors. Did she have a death wish? Nonsense!
The history that was written at the end said that Nelly spend 8 days in the asylum. The way it was written it seemed like she was there for months!