wonderful...just wonderful...yet another film portraying the mentally ill as the villain of the piece....
as someone who is mentally ill i find this offensive...
i suppose i'm railing against an unstoppable tide, but it would be nice to see more Hollywood films that show an accurate portrayal of mental illness...
we are not monsters, we are human.
Im sure he's not mentally ill. He's just a regular guy that goes all Silence of the Lambs when he catches a criminal in his house.
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Mental illness can be just about anything. Whatever you're suffering from is not what Pierce's character suffers from. Also, Hollywood is Hollywood. Not too many movies portray things how they really are. With that said, what's your point again?
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Personally, I really liked the movie.
Well, no offense, but isn't every villain mentally ill by definition? That robber wasn't exactly a normal either and actually far more insane, as in a real killer. All Niles did was pay him back and rob him of his money.It's a great movie (with a surprisingly average imdb rating I might add), don't make a big deal out of it. You can only be offended if you choose to be.
shareyiNXs, no, not every villain is mentally ill by definition. Mentally ill people are rarely a danger to others, unless they have more violent psychoses or abuse substances (anyone can be dangerous if they abuse substances). Mentally ill people are more susceptible to danger because everyone else tends to assume they are dangerous. It's a common misconception that mentally ill people are psycho killers or violent. The scarier fact is people who aren't mentally ill are villains, we just can't wrap our minds around that because it doesn't make sense. We don't want to accept that, something HAS to be wrong with the person, right?
Nope.
Talking monkey, yeah, yeah. Came here from the future, ugly sucker, only says "ficus".
Who the hell wants to see an accurate portrayal of the mentally ill? I can stop by one of the local group homes or stop into a Walmart anytime to see that.
Niles was much more entertaining than the retard in aisle 5.
I think you are a bit over-sensitive. This movie was hilarious and entertaining. David Hyde-Pierce did a wonderful performance. I guess you hated Fight Club as well.
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shareThere are so many different types of mental illness, and the overwhelming majority of people who suffer from any of them are not the least bit violent as a result. I have dealt with many schizophrenics and never met one who was violent.
As with any population of people, there will always be some who are violent of course.
This film was a dark comedy, and Hollywood tends to try to sensationalize things. A movie where the people acted like they do in real life would tend to be boring. So movie makers create caricatures of the most extreme types.
That said, I am sorry you were offended by the film. I thought it was an updated version of the old horror films I recall seeing growing up. There was often some recluse with a loose grip on reality, perhaps a mad scientist or a crazed killer. And some unfortunate person would wind up in their grips.
In this case a mild mannered man turns out to suffer from extreme delusions and hallucinations when not medicated. The moment when you realize that it isn't the bank robber who is controlling the situation was the big WOW moment for me.
I could not figure out whether all those other people in the photo album were fooled, and only thought they were going to die, or whether the bank robber was the only one who had fake blood and wounds, the only one who was released. Were the other people in the photo album killed? Perhaps the bank robber was only released so the cop could steal the money from him.
At any rate, that cop certainly was crafty.