I felt no empathy for the Veronika character. She seemed like a self loathing person who had it all and just couldn't stop feeling sorry for herself. Yeah we all have resentment for our parents, but we don't lash out for attention by trying to kill ourselves. What a self centered and worthless character. This can only appeal to teenagers who haven't lived in the world and experienced real problems.
shareok...thanks for telling me what should and shouldn't appeal to me, it has been noted and I'll refer to it in the future.
shareok...thanks for telling me what should and shouldn't appeal to me, it has been noted and I'll refer to it in the future.
When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...share
An instant classic!
I can feel his much-needed moral authority beaming out from my screen and enlightening my whole being. Thank God for putting His prophets online.
Well, clearly, you don't understand depression and the film at all. What you are saying is very naive and obnoxious.
The movie, in himself was good, nothing revolutionary because too predictable. However the acting and directing were very decent which in all made an enjoyable feature.
i agree with the original post that it was hard to sympathize with veronika. i'vre read the book more than once and loved it, but something just didn't translate for me. It wasn't terrible, but i felt myself tuning out when i should have been getting sucked in.
"WHO'S ON TOP & WHO'S ON BOTTOM NOW, huh?! WHO'S ON TOP & WHO'S ON BOTTOM NOW!"
I agree. Acting was bad. Sarah wasn't acting like someone in depression and going to try suicide 2 times.
The antidepression medication they use in such hospitals usually makes you sleepy and render you almost dumb. You can't masturbate or pay attention to boys, play Bach on the piano etc...
First of all, she didn't try to kill herself because of her parents. She was deeply depressed, which can come from just about anything and nothing. The letter she wrote was her last chance at being angry at the world, it could just as well have been an article about abuse etc. Maybe I missed something, but that was my interpretation.
Second, the doctor lied to her about her condition. It's possible that the drugs they gave her were placebos, and that the shots were the only authentic drug she received. My two cents.
Edit: I haven't read the book, maybe someone who has can clear this up.
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reffering to the message which someone said the drugs in hospital render you almost dumb is full of rubbish, because i was in hospital for 6 months down to depression and attempted suicide and i was on some heavy stuff, but no they dont, sedatives do.. but anti depressants do not, they may do for the first few days but your body adapts. So please keep your bull to yourself.
When you are in that frame of mind, all you see is black and just no way out.
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I don't know if your question has been answered yet because there are posts which have been deleted, but I'll answer your question anyway. Yes, the doctor lied to her about her condition. There was nothing wrong with her heart, and nothing wrong with her physically. He was, I guess, 'using' Veronika as a subject for a paper he was writing to see if he could remove the 'vitriol' from Veronika by telling her she only has a short time left to live. He gave her shots to mimic a heart attack (which frightened Veronika) and only the doctor knew what he was giving her.
*** End Spoiler ***
And to people who say that depression is not believable in people who are loved and successful - depression can strike anyone, regardless of their looks, wealth and success. Just because you're beautiful, rich, and well-loved, doesn't make you 'immuned' from being depressed. Yes, certain events in a person's life may trigger depression, like a death of a loved one, a relationship break up, loneliness, trauma, etc, but I agree with diadara on how depression can come from anything and nothing. Mental illnesses are always much more difficult to diagnose and treat than physical illnesses. Saying that a person's good looks and success gives him/her no right to be depressed is like saying that a healthy, non-smoking person who eats well and exercises regularly has no right to get lung cancer. Certain factors like smoking 2 packs a day and living an unhealthy lifestyle may increase a person's chance of developing lung cancer, but it could also happen to a healthy person.
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Jay: I understand about 20% of what goes on around here.
in the past year:
A number one German Goalkeeper who had a family killed himself cause he could not handle his deep depression.
A England cricket player had to leave a tour of OZ cause of depression.
These are 2 very rich, both with families who had the world at their feet.
Have to admit having sufferend from depression, i found it hard to understand how people like that could be depressed.
I lost both my parents one i was ready for the other was a shock, and i got to a point of whats the point and maybe i should join them, but than you reach a limit than come back up, of course i was lucky many cant come back up without help.
Also someone i knew who was depressed and felt the world was against them, thought about taking their own life, to get their own back on the people they thought never cared about them.
Depression can take many forms
Clearly you've never been depressed. People who are at the top of the world do get depressed, it doesn't mean they loathe themselves - at least not intentionally.
Let me describe for you depression - at least what I went through when I was 14.
It starts off with something simple that for some reason gets to you. It starts to manifest its way through your life and all of a sudden you can't tune one good thought into your head. You pretend to laugh at stuff that a year earlier you laughed so hard you could hardly breathe. The reason you don't laugh is because you've lost all your sense of humor because you can't get the negativity of your thinking out of your head. This is nowhere near the end. Just when you think things couldn't get any worse you immediately think "Suicide! Yes thats my way out, I don't have to live being the crap stain the world calls (insert name)." Then with that little thought, it immediately becomes an obsession, I tried repeatedly, a few were attemped drownings. I wanted to die on 26th January 2011.
Thank god I got out of that. I hope I never live through it again. This portrayal of depression both in the movie and the book are as accurately portrayed as possible.
PS I marked it as spoilers because its a very difficult subject for some people to talk about, namely me.
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