June 6, 20214 yr 18 hours ago, shadow_operative said: the best depiction of mental illness that i've ever seen -by far- was in that episode of Dave where Gata has a manic/bipolar breakdown. that episode is the gold standard for depicting this particular illness in a realistic light, from beginning to end. i found it be a very impactful episode of television, and i'd recommend that episode to anyone who's dealt with this sort of thing. That guy is Lil dicky’s real-life hypeman & he really is bipolar. Great episode.
June 8, 20214 yr The Aviator. The scene with Alan Alda as Senator Brewster where he serves Howard Hughes a glass with a fingerprint on it was so well done. Shows on one hand a brilliant Howard Hughes, nearly foiled by an imperfection. The obsessiveness that drives greatness can also correlate with mental illness.
June 8, 20214 yr Has anyone watched Manic, it was from 2001 and had Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoey Deschanel. I watched it a long time and remember very little about it besides it being set in a mental institution and it being pretty good. Edited June 8, 20214 yr by qwertyu1234
March 9Mar 9 A Woman Under the Influence. Mabel Longhetti: Dad... will you stand up for me? George Mortensen: Sure. [stands up] Mabel Longhetti: No, I don't mean that. Sit down, Dad. Will you please stand up for me?
March 10Mar 10 Apocalypse Now Requiem for a Dream Jacob's Ladder Memento The Machinist Black Swan What About Bob
March 10Mar 10 Requiem for a dream is a hard watch. That shit is sad Edited March 10Mar 10 by kingkoopa6
March 17Mar 17 Love and Mercy, about the onset and management of Brian Wilson's psychosis, is very well done.
March 17Mar 17 Sybil (Sally Field & Joanne Woodward) What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp & Leonardo DiCaprio) mental disability The Soloist (Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey Jr) Does The Omen count?
March 17Mar 17 Josh Lucas had an interview where he was out of the loop on the direction Bale took for the role and thought he was untalented and stiff. He just didnt get the memo that Bale was playing an especially hollow person. It wasnt until the screening until he got it.Lucas and the other talented actors were somewhat charismatic and all narcissistic, 80’s bad boys. Bale was playing a sociopath who attempted to be them but unable to pull it off fully. The director believed that sociopaths were naturally unfunny, though they could fake it for a short while by mimicking when necessary.
March 17Mar 17 1 hour ago, RPM said: Michael Keaton is very adept at playing mentally ill characters.
March 18Mar 18 On 3/17/2025 at 7:02 AM, Mrs Whiggins said: Sybil (Sally Field & Joanne Woodward) What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp & Leonardo DiCaprio) mental disability The Soloist (Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey Jr) Does The Omen count? The Soloist is a GREAT addition. No, the Omen or the Exorcist or Hereditary or any other possession movies don't count. I don't even think the Shining counts. Possession and hauntings change a person's thoughts and behaviors, but they are external to the person. It looks like madness, but it's not -- it's possession. The Shining is a perfect example. Jack's character clearly seems to delve into madness as the movie goes on, but it's exclusively due to possession / haunting that has existed in the Overlook Hotel for many iterations over time. Also, the boy sees visions at times (blood in the elevator, the twins, etc), and he's clearly not mentally ill.
March 18Mar 18 The Soloist is a GREAT addition. No, the Omen or the Exorcist or Hereditary or any other possession movies don't count. I don't even think the Shining counts. Possession and hauntings change a person's thoughts and behaviors, but they are external to the person. It looks like madness, but it's not -- it's possession. The Shining is a perfect example. Jack's character clearly seems to delve into madness as the movie goes on, but it's exclusively due to possession / haunting that has existed in the Overlook Hotel for many iterations over time. Also, the boy sees visions at times (blood in the elevator, the twins, etc), and he's clearly not mentally ill. I think the book was more about the mental illness with Jacks character. And the film also dives into how isolation can lead to madness. Neither was about possession, though the movie went more supernatural I think.
March 18Mar 18 Primal Fear As Good As it Gets If we can throw in a documentary, then this is about one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen.
March 18Mar 18 Another vote for Silver Linings Playbook. Whenever I hear "What Is and What Should Never Be" I think of Bradley Cooper and DeNiro going at it
March 19Mar 19 10 hours ago, Eskimohorn said: I think the book was more about the mental illness with Jacks character. And the film also dives into how isolation can lead to madness. Neither was about possession, though the movie went more supernatural I think. I didn't read the book, but the movie seems pretty clearly to be about a haunted hotel, referencing the previous caretaker's murder spree. True that Jack's character was a broken man who was an insecure domineering drunk, but he wasn't mentally ill and he didn't kill his family because he went crazy from isolation. The isolation combined with his already low threshold for stress made him a vulnerable target for murderous intent by the hotel's spirit. I mean he wasn't possessed like Regan from the Exorcist or anything, but how else do you explain Danny seeing visions of the twins or the bloody elevator, having the shining with old man Halloran, having Halloran know that something bad was going to happen, or the photo in the closing frame of the movie if it's not due to an evil force at the hotel? Anyway, regardless, my point is that possession doesn't equate to mental illness.
March 19Mar 19 4 hours ago, honolulu horn said: I didn't read the book, but the movie seems pretty clearly to be about a haunted hotel, referencing the previous caretaker's murder spree. 16 hours ago, honolulu horn said: The Soloist is a GREAT addition. No, the Omen or the Exorcist or Hereditary or any other possession movies don't count. I don't even think the Shining counts. Possession and hauntings change a person's thoughts and behaviors, but they are external to the person. It looks like madness, but it's not -- it's possession. The Shining is a perfect example. Jack's character clearly seems to delve into madness as the movie goes on, but it's exclusively due to possession / haunting that has existed in the Overlook Hotel for many iterations over time. Also, the boy sees visions at times (blood in the elevator, the twins, etc), and he's clearly not mentally ill. IIRC Stephen King's complaint about the film was that his book was about a sympathetic author who gets driven mad, while Jack Nicholson was pretty much there from the start.
March 19Mar 19 I didn't read the book, but the movie seems pretty clearly to be about a haunted hotel, referencing the previous caretaker's murder spree. True that Jack's character was a broken man who was an insecure domineering drunk, but he wasn't mentally ill and he didn't kill his family because he went crazy from isolation. The isolation combined with his already low threshold for stress made him a vulnerable target for murderous intent by the hotel's spirit. I mean he wasn't possessed like Regan from the Exorcist or anything, but how else do you explain Danny seeing visions of the twins or the bloody elevator, having the shining with old man Halloran, having Halloran know that something bad was going to happen, or the photo in the closing frame of the movie if it's not due to an evil force at the hotel? Anyway, regardless, my point is that possession doesn't equate to mental illness. Mental illness was a theme in the movie. Kubrick made a point of visually and symbolically conveying isolation and the effect it had on characters. The movie explored supernatural and tangible elements more than the source material, much to Stephen Kings dismay. You could argue mental illness is a red herring and its really a ghost story. Really Kubrick dialed up visual elements because he wasnt gonna go surreal showing whats happening in Jacks head all the time.And since i read the book more recently than watch the movie, i may be spouting some bookfag nonsense. But “shining” is confused with psychotic or maybe schizophrenic episodes. Dr Sleep i think even confirmed Jack suppressed episodes of shining with alcohol.Bottom line, shining (communicating with the dead) may or may not be related to mental illness. But the movie still explores themes of mental illness even if it’s just for show before showing the haunted elements.
March 19Mar 19 21 hours ago, Eskimohorn said: I think the book was more about the mental illness with Jacks character. And the film also dives into how isolation can lead to madness. Neither was about possession, though the movie went more supernatural I think. Specifically, about Jack's alcoholism. The whole book is basically a giant "dry drunk," what happens to varying degrees when an alky stops drinking without taking steps leading to recovery. Any recovering addict can see that it's an extreme, but accurate, portrayal. Which is ironic, because King was an active alcoholic/addict at the time he wrote it. He's been pretty candid about that since recovering in the late 80s, but it would seem that he'd had some abortive attempts at recovery at the time of writing, experiencing dry drunks himself, which is not something he's mentioned.
March 19Mar 19 Adolescence streaming on Netflix.Basic premise is how incel culture and social media influence the psyche of young teens, focusing on a 13 year old boy and his family.Extremely well done. Probably gonna win a bunch of awards.
March 19Mar 19 On 3/17/2025 at 3:06 PM, Kennythetiger said: The Dream Team. Exactly the one I was thinking of. If you think about it his role in Night Shift kinda typecast him and he just leaned into it. Beetlejuice, Birdman, Pacific Heights, Clean and Sober. They're all mentally ill characters to some degree. You could throw in The Founder. If you don't think Ray Kroc had a screw loose, then you are wrong. Knox Goes Away is excellent on many levels. Edited March 19Mar 19 by RPM
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