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Originally Posted by rubecube
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.
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But it’s a film, it’s meant to entertain not be politically correct or educate people. That’s the part I don’t understand. It’s art. It’s a story about one individual and how things went for him. This doesn’t mean the movie is saying “this is what mental illness looks like”.