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Someone labelled my review as 'abusive'

posted 12 years ago by JMDoane42
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Apparently the interviewees from the movie are lurking around the IMDB boards and are getting anything they don't want to see deleted, I can't think of who else would consider my review "abusive".
I simply pointed out that the people interviewed for this move display varying degrees of schizophrenia. It's all there and pretty apparent. Delusions of grandeur (how most of them comment that "ordinary" people would never notice these little nuances in the film that ONLY THEY were able to decipher), seeing connections between things that have no relation to each other, focusing on insignificant elements and blowing them up to the point that they create an entire fantasy narrative around them (the best example of this is "theory" that is centered entirely around a picture of a skier in the periphery of one scene). Remember the scene from "A Beautiful Mind" when she comes into her husband's shack and discovers the hundreds of pictures and newspaper clippings connected by pieces of colored thread? That was schizophrenia, and so is this.
This is a documentary about people with schizophrenia. The movie "The Shining" is inconsequential, if it didn't exist these people would have focused their delusions on something else.

To whoever got my review deleted: you can delete my reviews/posts all you want but it won't change the fact that you are mentally ill, and there is medication that will help. Apparently it's "abusive" to confront you with the truth.

[–] Brokenail22 12 years ago

Calling someone crazy is a healthy way to start a debate, for sure.

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[–] boydigital 12 years ago

Potentially valid criticisms (which might arguable be the criticisms inherent in the documentary itself) phrased in just about the most off-putting way imaginable.

How about not antagonizing everyone and everything as you type (even your reader)? Go sip a piña colada and put your feet up for a while. Chill, just chill.

[–] Ceephax 11 years ago

I simply pointed out that the people interviewed for this move display varying degrees of schizophrenia.

I'm not surprised it got taken down as abusive, as schizophrenia is a very serious mental illness that can often result in suicide.

You can rip into conspiracy theorists all you want (I'm a bit of one myself, but thought this was absolute trash), but commenting that they suffer from 'schizophrenia', I'm sorry to say, IS abusive. Maybe someone with schizophrenia or people related to someone with schizophrenia flagged it as abusive because they were deeply offended by it, wouldn't that make more sense?

Perhaps 'delusional' may have been more appropriate, don't you think?

[–] mptxyz 11 years ago

I have known plenty of people with schizophrenia and none of them could explain their delusions as coherently as the people interviewed on this film. Not all crazy people are schizophrenic. The moon landing guy was mainly drawing on well established - though ridiculous - ideas and interpreting the film through that belief system. I expect that many people, if they spent a few hours in a room full of people who believed such stuff, would come away feeling a little crazy.

I found the other people far more interesting. They actually spotted a few things that were probably put in the film deliberately, though not for the reasons stated.