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| Shyamalan's "Split" boycotted for "portrayal of mental illness, common sense" |
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| mod-man:
--- Quote from: Poliwhirl on January 21, 2017, 01:40:23 PM ---you'd be surprised, apparently --- End quote --- with cooky stuff like this going on not really. but thats just all the more reason to not boycott this film. the more sheltered people get the more difficult it will be to rationalize things like this. any movie making any bold claim will be able to convince the masses. peoples beliefs and views need to be challenged in this sense, i believe |
| Donnies Catch:
mental illness has a stigma, which in the last few years, slowly has been fading, however, it's still very easy to put people back into believing the stigma. Movies like this, while it is not their goal, help bring the stigma back. People who suffer from that have the right to complain about it. I get that making a horror movie with the lead antagonist being a scary person with motives you don't understand as they come from a mentally insane mind is an interesting watch, but a lot of people will forget that it is an overexaggerated movie and will portray that overexaggeration onto a normal person who suffers from a mental illness in real life. it is a pretty big mess a lot of people have been trying to solve, but no matter what people come up with to prevent the stigma, nobody wins. |
| SeventhSandwich:
This is dumb. I plan to see the movie. |
| Outland Predator:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on January 21, 2017, 02:05:31 PM ---This is dumb. --- End quote --- |
| mod-man:
--- Quote from: Donnies Catch on January 21, 2017, 01:48:32 PM ---I get that making a horror movie with the lead antagonist being a scary person with motives you don't understand as they come from a mentally insane mind is an interesting watch, but a lot of people will forget that it is an overexaggerated movie and will portray that overexaggeration onto a normal person who suffers from a mental illness in real life. --- End quote --- it is a mess, especially when some people with multiple personality disorder enjoy that stigma. my brother who is as psycho as the movies make him out to be lives with it, and he loves being considered "crazy". i wouldnt say hes dangerous since hes never hurt me and never would, but hes done things that people would consider dangerous. hes held me at gunpoint before. hell hes held me against the door with a knife to my neck before. hes actively tried killing himself since he was a teen and regularly disappears without a trace. he regularly admits hes crazy, probably to convince himself so, so that he can live his life the crazy way he wants thats the problem with mental illness. not everyone is suffering from their mental illness. others embrace it, and love the life the stigma introduces them to. when the results are so skewed and nobody is winning, whats the point? |
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