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Today I’m a film reviewer.
On Monday night I watched a film called Roommate. This was quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen in my 26years. It was worse than Epic movie and other crap of a similar ilk.
Genre: Psychological thriller (apparently... I’d describe it as idiot gore-fest)
The Cast: Some American idiots from the likes of Gossip girl and programmes about important things like Cheer leading.
Basic story line: Girl has a roommate; roommate turns out to be a crazy. Roommate is violent. Roommate is scary. Roommate dies. Happy ending because crazy roommate is dead.
The film was completely obvious, it was primarily boring and the acting was terrible. If that wasn’t bad enough, it presented a sensationalised image of mental illness and pertained to every negative stereotype available.
This scene made me laugh:
Roommate leaves the room; girl starts to rummage through roommate’s things and finds pills. Boyfriend enters room.
Boyfriend: “what are those?”
Girl: “that’s what I’m about to find out.”
*boyfriend and girl are researching the name of the pills in a darkened room with only the light of the computer screen.
Girl: “…it says here that these are commonly used for treatment of schizophrenia or…..Bi POLAR!”
*girl looks up at boyfriend with furrowed brow.
Hold the phones not Bi Polar! Quick lock up your daughters and pull down the shutters the loopies are in town! What a load of idiocy. Preposterous.
At one point roommate and girl went for coffee and met a group of girls who roommate knew from high school. It became apparent that roommate had showed similar obsessive behaviour with high school girl and had seemingly scared her. High school girl said to roommate: “we were never friends”. This hurt roommate and you could tell this hurt her because she made a sad face like this L
If roommate had shown a template of obsessive/unhealthy behaviour in the past then this should have been noticed and support been put in place for her. Social services let us down yet again. Pft.
This scene upset me:
Roommate has just murdered/injured most people. Roommate is now strangling girl. Girl manages to find a Stanley
“We were never friends”
What an absolute bitch. They most definitely were friends. They went to art galleries together, shared midnight pancakes, giggled and named a kitten together. Girl is a liar and I hate her.
The over all moral of the story was that people with a mental health problem:
- Are violent
- Are scary
- Don’t have friends
The happy ending involved girl removing roommate’s bed from her room and making dinner plans with boyfriend. No word was said about the fact that she was the murderer of a vulnerable person. I do like a happy ending.
When Mel Gibson directed The Passion of the Christ there was an uproar regarding the negative representation of Jews. Similarly, if there was a film about a gay person, a person of a particular creed, nationality or gender and said film presented such a negative stereotypical message based solely on ignorance, then I’m fairly confident that there would be much controversy. Why then is it acceptable to regard mental illness in this light? “It’s only entertainment” you might argue. No it is not only entertainment, film/tv/any media infact it is a format, a medium of filtering views through to us as the audience, its saying “hey it’s ok to say this”.
Never have I been so irritated by a movie. I have as a result, decided not to waste another moment of my life on a bad movie. I made a similar decision regarding trashy “it’ll do while I sunbathe” novels. Instead I will consider my choices more carefully. I am not trying to sound pretentious; just I don’t need such idiot views of narrow-minded-air-headedness in my life thanks.
To leave you on a more positive note, here are some brilliant movies with the theme of mental illness: Fight club, A beautiful mind, Black swan and Girl interrupted.
NB. I know some brilliant people who live with mental health problems. I wouldn’t want to change a thing about them.
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