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I love Brad Anderson. His low-key directing style along with Christian Bale's magnificent acting make one helluva combination. Michael Ironside is equally entertaining, but then, when is he not? I absolutely loved Session 9, and this is sort-of similar, if only in the way it manipulates your mind. If you are a fan of psychological thrillers and/or intelligent horror movies, this one (and Session 9!) should definitely be in your collection. As an aside, I don't think Hollywood had much to do with this movie, and I'm fairly certain that it's not to be taken as a documentary on psychosis, as the above critic would have you believe.

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This is an awesome film. Really! It is the quintessential psychotic episode portrayed by the guy who has no medication, is unknowing, has no formal diagnosis and no where to run. He slowly but so vividly spirals down the stair steps of the dark pit into raw and pure insanity. The movie portrays his footsteps ingeniously. And indeed Bale acts this out magnificently. We again have the ingenious use of a delusional and visual hallucination antagonist, like which was so beautifully utilized in Fight Club. It shouts out his paranoid delusional mental state and visual unreal images that so lusciously define authentic psychosis. <
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>Ah, but this plot line has grown so old over the years, but for Fight Club, Secret Window, Beau Mind, Fisher King, Donny's Little Darko, etc. I mean, how much mileage does Hollywood seriously expect to get out of this? <
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>And of course, Hollywood has its typical slant. Well, and because psychosis is not a "respectable" illness, like cancer, Parkinson's, diabetes or broken neck paralysis. No... Hollywood has thought this out long and hard and has deemed that mental illness is the gutter illness. So the film is fraught with all kinds of the typical mental illness gutter stereotypes, like bale's live-in-hooker and his homicidal tendencies - like all mentally ill people have them - and why are we all homicidal? Well because Hollywood says so, that's why! And of course homicidal, mentally ill psychotic people are what makes Hollywood money. And we're talking lots of money. Well and actors too. Just ask Bale. <
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>Come on Hollywood, give us something more. You can do better than this. Next time, why don't you throw in the 3 day involuntary commitment, or that a 10 mg dose of tongue dissolvable Zyprexa pops you out of this type of insanity in about 3 hours and gets us back to 50% from a 0%. Or the years and years of counseling that it takes to get yourself back to about 60%. Or the Social Security Disability that many of us will have to get on. Or the 20% that commit suicide with this type of illness. Or that our spouses will divorce us because of it. I mean, after all, this film is about the 1 percent of the population who has paranoid schizophrenia (2.5 million US people) and the 1 percent of the population who has paranoid psychotic bipolar I (another 2.5 million US people), and the 1 percent of the population who has depression with psychotic features (another 2.5 million US people), and the 500,000 mothers who have post-partum psychosis. Yea, this film is about the oppression of about 8 million US people. <
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>Next time, show the real story and the real suffering that all of us go through every day. Please quit running us through your Hollywood gutter. A lot of us are respectable individuals with a severe chronic incurable mental illness. And most of us are balancing 5 different medications just to survive it. We didn't ask for this crap. Some of us are even airborne rangers. Next time, show the real deal, and then we'll all give you more than 1 star. Have a nice day!