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The Black Balloon opens with an awkward dance between filmmaker and audience, the latter trying to suss whether the able-bodied actor is playing an autistic character or is lazily impersonating the illness, all obvious ticks and embarrassingly broad gestures.
Most of all, you admire the extraordinary bravery of a young boy, who faces a terminal illness.
This is a good attempt to show some of the symptoms and family issues which occur when a member develops the illness.
I believe the progression of the illness, when it occurred and the effect is had on her family was fairly accurate.
But Megan suffers from a mental illness, the symptoms of which get worse as she delves deeper into the killings.
During the 1940s, there were several films about mental illness and most that I have seen are psychological mumbo-jumbo--filled with nonsense and portraying insanity in the most ridiculous ways.
Despite being directed by Hitchcock and having a good reputation, most of what occurs in the film has nothing to do with mental illness and the way the therapist (Ingrid Bergman) behaves in the film is not only unethical but downright stupid.
When therapists talked about the mental illness Ms. Crawford's character had, they really were reasonable in their diagnosis and the terminology they used was correct for that day.
Ames is also on board ship; she's dying of an incurable illness (probably some form of heart disease they couldn't do anything about in 1932).
We don't know, He doesn't know and worst of everything the doctors don't know the root of his illness.
There is no way the doctors who diagnosed her illness would let her roam free after she shot her brother!
The mental illness portrayed in "Possessed" is what the Victorians called hysteria.
It's also interesting as a true look at mental illness, not the candy-coated or nightmarish visions typically put forth by the media, but mental illness as experienced by everyday people.
Call it a modern - day version of the van Gogh - story, or a look at the darker (or even just the non - Warner - Brothers) side of the flower - power generation, the human condition, the power of art, the battle of the sexes, a case history of mental illness, psychotic families, whatever.
Besides the zombie thing, it's somewhat similar to a manga I read: by the end of 21th century, mysterious illness spreads out, teenage girls suddenly becoming more and more beautiful day by day, and so as weaker and weaker, then eventually die off.
I guess this is one of the first movies that deals with mental illness.
Faking a terminal illness and playing it up to the hilt, the three daughters (Brigette Lin, Maggie Cheung, and Chingmy Yau) dig up three men (Leung Kar-Fai, Jacky Cheung and Ekin Cheng) to pose as there fiancées.
An intriguing, compelling script on mental illness keeps the audience guessing, with "Possessed", starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey....not exactly a cast made up of sublimely beautiful people.
It should serve as an anthem for all parents of seriously ill children no matter the nature of the illness, and a guideline of how to cope and accept.
In a bland, sterile, heavily automated future where dying from terminal illness has become virtually obsolete, the fact that best-selling writer Katherine Mortenhoe (a fabulously fiery, feisty turn by Romy Schneider) has a rare mortal sickness that will bring about her untimely demise makes her a prime subject for a tasteless mondo-style live atrocity TV show.
alcohol) and illness and living in squalor on a diet of brandy and tinned sardines.
My sister and I recorded ourselves singing 'Sunshine' and 'Lady' for fun after seeing the movie only to discover just weeks later that she too had a terminal illness and died very soon after.
"Solas" is a wonderful movie with a great plot and great actors.Maria Galiana as an old and rural woman that goes to the city to see her daughter and her illness husband made me cry.Is an special movie with a good screenplay.I'm an andalusian boy and movies always has been unfair with Andalusia.In all those movies,andalusian were funny and stereotyped people of the flolcorical Spain.This movie show us how is the life of very rural women in my country.Also,"Solas" is one of the best movies about the relationship between a mother and her daughter that i've ever seen.As loneliness' portrait ,"Solas" os powerful too.Is a movie that insinuate more than what show it,as all good movies.For all those whose dreams are not come true,this movie show us that the loneliness is not the best way to do.
What are the odds that an artist can survive family violence, mental illness, sexual rejection, and Big Mac culture?
It goes way overboard to make every character have a serious hang up about something, and of course there is Jane Curtain's mental illness, oh thats always a great subject to laugh about!
Irina Palm is a small,quiet film about a widow (Marianne Faithful,who will always be remembered as Mick Jagger's girlfriend back in the mid to late 60's,and had a brief recording career herself before Heroin & other drugs side tracked her), who has seen better days,finds out her grandson is dying from an illness that could only be cured in a hospital in Australia.
The show dealt with serious issues like rape, corruption, driving under the influence, mental illness, wife beatings, gun violence, child pornography, indifference, coercion, drug usage, governmental bureaucracy, and child exploitation.
Crawford's performance is simply brilliant; she captures with uncanny precision the mood swings, ups and downs of a person who is battling a mental illness.
Successive productions though became increasingly elaborate, obscure and reflecting obsessions with his own disabling illness and young women largely as sex objects.
The subject matter, young love, family, illness, free spirits were right on.
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