Anyone else disappointed in its rendition

Even though it isn't bipolar, Awakenings is a great one with De Niro. This year's Welcome to Me was a warming sight, though it was about Borderline Personality. Still a very good watch and faithful to the disorder. This one might be worth checking out, just don't expect it to be THE film about bipolar as I was hoping it was. As an aspiring filmmaker maybe I'll grow up to make it, lol. It's my one great ambition in life.

It was good. A friend joined me, they may be in the area of this affliction, what was emphasized was Cameron's(Cam)anger over-flows, then later, the disorganization of the home, and other routines, affecting his two daughters, etc.
It has lighthearted moments. The girls, Amelia and Faith Stuart were very good. The Mother, Maggie, was really good also.

I give it 3 out of 5 Stars.



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You should probably check it out, I'd be interested to hear what you think.

What might have been the reason for the CONSTANT wacky madcap moments, one after the other, is that he stops taking his medication early on in the film. That might have been why he was in that state of near-mania the whole time. But I don't know, I think it really should've been true to the disorder's entire spectrum rather than playing it so lightly.

This is a true story about the girl's experience with her father though, so perhaps I'm being too harsh, and maybe some cases aren't as bad as others? For me, my earliest memories of my father are of him throwing my against a wall and screaming. I love him to death though, and feel deeply for what he goes through. I was hoping I'd get more of his experience from this movie than what was shown.

I'm with you. I loved it. I appreciated the specificity of the characters and that these felt like real, complex people. The familiar stereotypes with Black characters were thankfully absent. I'm not an expert on bipolar disorder, so if the depiction was inaccurate I didn't know. Since much of the story is from the girls' POV, perhaps this is how they remembered their father within that time period. Or, perhaps the events that felt most conducive to dramatization were those when the father was more wild. Or maybe there was a scene or sequence wherein the father was at a low point, but it didn't work and was cut. For me, not seeing the low definitely didn't ruin the story for me. I felt that the story did have an arc. The last scene seemed to be illustrating that the girls were learning how to deal with their father while also having the confidence to make their own lives a priority. They were very worried about him and his illness and his wellbeing. In that last scene, they showed that they still adored their dad, crazy flaws and all, but they knew they had to let him be his crazy self and not feel guilty that they couldn't be responsible for him or his wellbeing. He needed to learn that he couldn't include them in his every whim and they were beginning to set that boundary. Loved it.

True. You should watch a documentary is you want 100 accuracy. Even then people will tell you they got it all wrong because it doesn't fit their personal diagnosis which might be wrong in the first place.

I leave it up to the French to tell people that life is total *beep* and then you die in the gutter in the rain as people step over you.

In the meantime, I think I will watch this movie even though I don't have this problem or anything resembling it.




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