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Originally Posted by 8sPOT
The only thing confusing to me is some of the reaction to how dark it is, and how it treats mental illness in a shallow way. But the thing is I thought this was a realistic portrayal of a man who has never felt happiness or love and how his upbringing combined with the mental problems he's suffering created this heinous villain. I could see this happening in real life. Maybe not to such a dramatic extent, but on the whole it felt very real to me. Great film.
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This is kind of the problem though. If you use this for your template for how mental illness and childhood trauma manifests itself later in life, it ignores a whole other host of self-destructive a tragic outcomes (addiction, various versions of self-harm, etc.). Really the only time the character's mental illness was deemed relevant was when it impacted general society. That's a tremendously shallow (and you could argue callous) way of looking at the problem.