very shallow, typical american movie, showing posh families dealing with serious issues in a shallow way. I guess this movie is made for children? So they can be educated about mental illness? If that's the case, it's nice, I'm okay with that. If you want to watch serious movies about mental ilness, I suggest you watch Lars von Trier movies for example and keep a wide berth of fivehead films.
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It was apparently on the Lifetime channel so, that's probably why. Lifetime is geared toward the typical American middle class woman.
On another note - I knew about Antichrist (and I've seen a couple of his other movies too) during its hype cause I'm an old regular on the horror board here and it wasn't my cup of tea.
Apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, and don't play well with others. -Tony Stark
K, You're already dismissing this as a typical American movie, so I don't think what I have to say will hold much weight, but whatever.
I have mental illness, (been institutionalized, medicated, the whole nine yards, so to speak), and I didn't think the movies' portrayal was too bad at all.
These are shorts, not allowing enough time for in-depth character analyses. I thought the depression one was a bit shallow, although I do notice that some comedians seem to be prone to depression (as opposed to other professions), so they hit the nail on the head with that aspect.
The girl whose mother is bipolar is not far from some of the people I've known who are bipolar. When I transferred from in patient to an outpatient facility, some of the people decided to go off their meds, and we'd have breaks
The PTSD segment is a bit shallow as well, although, from hearing from my military friends, basically everyone who has been to war suffers from some degree of PTSD.
This is a made for TV movie, and I don't think anyone was banking on this film winning any Oscars any time soon.
It's good for what it is, a basic TV movie that casts mental illness in a pretty accurate, yet somewhat shallow light. You can't compare this to very accomplished directors like Lars Von Trier. If you do, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.