Too Close to Reality to Be Comfortable
Being Robin Williams' last movie, this movie carries an eerie resemblace to his actual life, as if it were his actual death note. That's what makes me uncomfortable.
shareRobin Williams never cruised the boulevards in search of picking up young male prostitutes. WTF is wrong with you to think this movie carries an eerie resemblance to his actual life?! Williams was not gay.
Now if I HAD to pick a film that I could speculate paralleled his actual life at the time, I would say it's "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn".
I just don't get how an actor playing a gay role somehow makes him gay in real life?! I see a few posts here suggesting it and it's a ridiculous assumption.
I honestly didnt know that was the plot until you mentioned it.
And i dont think the OP meant to imply that too.I think what the OP meant was,its just eerily showing a conflicted side of Robin on screen just before his death.
Robin Williams never cruised the boulevards in search of picking up young male prostitutes. WTF is wrong with you to think this movie carries an eerie resemblance to his actual life?! Williams was not gay.Thank you!
Now if I HAD to pick a film that I could speculate paralleled his actual life at the time, I would say it's "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn".
I just don't get how an actor playing a gay role somehow makes him gay in real life?! I see a few posts here suggesting it and it's a ridiculous assumption.
I like to think -- if this fellow has seen the movie -- that it was simply because Robin knocked the role out of the park. A vastly underrated actor once said that he "tried to never let them catch me acting." Robin, at his best, didn't look as if he was acting.
You will probably disagree. That's the nature of discussions -- they have two sides. share
How do you even know, Dr. Absolute?
You contradicted yourself by saying one film might reflect and then another one doesn't. It's not a baseless assumption. The fact that he spiraled into a depression that caused suicide after completing this role seems significant or at least far from ridiculous.
He also spiraled into depression after his tv show The Crazy Ones was cancelled. Are we going to say that role also caused his suicide?
Why not go way back and say Mork and Mindy started his downward spiral 30 years ago. I love how everyone's an armchair psychologist when it comes to Williams and why he did himself in.
My point is that you can't say one specific role caused his depression or suicide. Without a note left behind, none of us will ever know the truth.
Possibly, you can't say any role "caused" his depression.
He'd had clinical depression much of his life, and that's different from getting depressd over a setback or moody over a role. On top of that, he'd been diagnosed with two major degenerative conditions, his career was in at least a significant slump if not a permanent decline, and he had serious money troubles he couldn't see any way out of. Comments from friends and family were that it was a long time since they'd seen him happy.
I think he weighed up his options and simply decided he didn't want to fight anymore, and took a quiet exit.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
'Robin Williams never cruised the boulevards in search of picking up young male prostitutes.''
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Maybe he didn't, but how would you know what he did for sex? Same ring of homophobia. ..how "ridiculous"! You haven't' a clue what men do in the real world, so YOU are assuming, naive little girl