Having first hand experience with schizophrenia and bipolar I was curious how they would handle depression. They failed at every attempt.
The father gets never an answer and still believes till the end that his son has no serious condition. Utter denial. That was the part that hurt me the most, I got the full support from home, I could stay in the hospital/ward for as long as they, the doctors, deemed good. Here the doctors could not get the message clear enough on the table for the parents. The parents were played into every corner by the son and every time they bought into the meaningless words.
It was very hard to watch, I fully agree with primal_1 above. I too had to laugh sometimes where I was certain, that it wasn't meant to be funny.
What was more, it is depicted as if wanting the boy back home, is love. It isn't, they fail to see that real love is letting the son get the treatment he needs.
Denying that need isn't love at all. This movie shows more the struggle of the parent themselves, the trouble they get into, when they deny that the son really needs serious treatment.
The parents play a very detrimental part, and that's shown as sensitive, caring, loving. This movie misses the mark on all points. I still gave it 6 stars, because the acting was very good, so, for someone who knows nothing about mental afflictions, this movie is very watchable.
The father gets never an answer and still believes till the end that his son has no serious condition. Utter denial. That was the part that hurt me the most, I got the full support from home, I could stay in the hospital/ward for as long as they, the doctors, deemed good. Here the doctors could not get the message clear enough on the table for the parents. The parents were played into every corner by the son and every time they bought into the meaningless words.
It was very hard to watch, I fully agree with primal_1 above. I too had to laugh sometimes where I was certain, that it wasn't meant to be funny.
What was more, it is depicted as if wanting the boy back home, is love. It isn't, they fail to see that real love is letting the son get the treatment he needs.
Denying that need isn't love at all. This movie shows more the struggle of the parent themselves, the trouble they get into, when they deny that the son really needs serious treatment.
The parents play a very detrimental part, and that's shown as sensitive, caring, loving. This movie misses the mark on all points. I still gave it 6 stars, because the acting was very good, so, for someone who knows nothing about mental afflictions, this movie is very watchable.