and physical and emotional health.
             In the film text "Gia," the model world is presented as the kind of environment, that seems dazzling and exciting on the outside yet ugly, rotten and soul-destroying on the inside. The girls are made up to look stunning, but when they start to hold a conversation the lighting is lowered and harsher, more intense music begins to play. The way in which the modelling world is portrayed in the film "Gia" is in some ways similar to the way in which the life of a teenage girl is presented in the prose text "The Hanged Man." The imagery presented in the book and the visual effects in the film present an eerie, uneasy feel when discussing both the girls' problems and general lifestyles.
             Gia and Laurel's circumstances are overcome similarly by the means of denial. Both Gia and Laurel have problems facing the degrading pain of reality. They consequently escape the pain of the situation they are in by replacing their problem with a far greater danger to their lives. In Laurel's case, she replaces the pain, anger, denial and suffering of her childhood and Father's death with anorexia. In Gia's case she escapes the isolation, loneliness and soul destroying of the modelling world with drug abuse.
             The ways in which the pain of depression is portrayed are similar in both the prose text "The Hanged Man" and the film text, "Gia". Gia is revealed to have had a very aggressive, often angry exterior, which masked neediness and loneliness that, despite numerous attempts through partying and drugs, never escaped her, and proved to be her downfall. Her rugged appearance and attitude versus her sorrowful interior is seen very clearly numerous times. When Gia is angry the music is lowered an
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