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Tag Archives: Mental Illness
All the Bright Places (2020) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): An earnest young adult romance drama
Netflix film “All the Bright Places” is an earnest young adult romance drama about two troubled adolescents with each own issue. While I appreciate its somber and sensitive approach to its dark subjects including grief and mental illness, the movie … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolescence, Coming-of-age drama, High School, Mental Illness, Romance
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Horse Girl (2020) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): As she is losing her mind
I was often baffled and confused as watching “Horse Girl”, which was released on Netflix not long after it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in last month. As its heroine becomes more mentally disturbed and confused along the … Continue reading
Judy (2019) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Her last hurrah
As many of you know, Judy Garland was a tragically messy and damaged person throughout her life and career. While she quickly rose as a new talented child performer in Hollywood thanks to the enormous success of “The Wizard of … Continue reading
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Tagged Actress, Addiction, Mental Illness, Real-life figure, Real-life story, Singer
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The Dead Center (2018) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): In the Mouth of Death
“The Dead Center” intrigued me at first and then came to frustrate me later. While it initially comes to us as an interesting mix of H.P. Lovecraft and Bill S. Ballinger, the movie unfortunately begins to trudge during its trite … Continue reading
Joker (2019) ☆☆(2/4): This is no laughing matter
“Joker” is alternatively depressing and alarming to watch. Monotonously grim, morbid, sour, unpleasant, and vicious from the beginning to the end, it attempts to thrust us into the warped state of mind of a very disturbed man bound to be … Continue reading
At Eternity’s Gate (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): Van Gogh’s last few years
Julian Schnabel’s latest film “At Eternity’s Gate” looks around the last few years of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), who was surely one of the greatest painters in the 19th Europe but unfortunately did not receive much attention during his rather … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Mental Illness, Painter, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Madeline’s Madeline (2018) ☆☆(2/4): Seriously committed and disturbed
Watching “Madeline’s Madeline” was quite annoying and frustrating for me. Attempting to present a disturbing drama of mental illness and artistic exploitation, the movie is deliberately disorienting and jarring from the beginning to the end, and I sort of understand … Continue reading
Unsane (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): Is she really going insane?
Steven Soderbergh’s latest film “Unsane” deals with one hell of nightmarish circumstance which will surely make you wince at times for good reasons. What if you are suddenly committed to a mental hospital? What if you continue to get stuck … Continue reading
Split (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Shaymalan and McAvoy going way over the top
Among a bunch of books I have kept since my elementary school years, Daniel Keyes’ nonfiction book “The Minds of Billy Milligan” is one of more notable ones I still remember quite well. Its real-life story of a man struggling … Continue reading
Pawn Sacrifice (2014) ☆☆(2/4): An unstable pawn of his game
The life of Bobby Fischer was one of those typical examples of how genius can be both blessing and curse. While being one of the most brilliant chess players during the 20th history, Fischer was also a deeply troubled man … Continue reading