Words on Bathroom Walls - Review

***** Absolutely Amazing 

Recently I got time to watch this movie. This looked like an interesting romantic comedy. Something that everyone could watch.  However it went far deeper....into the mind.  Directed by Thor Freudenthal and written by Nick Naveda, based on the novel of the same name by Julia Walton.​

Charlie Plummer just nailed the character Adam a blossoming teenager with a love of cooking and gastronomy who has his first psychotic episode in chemistry class.  At the same time of coming of age he was also coming to terms with a diagnosis and obligatory medication. 

The director has done a fantastic job of what it is like to be in the mind of a person who is having a psychotic episode. He every cleverly does this using special effects to visually depict what psychosis must be like. The plot takes a very interesting direction when he also depicts the 'voices' in Adam's head as being like real people who you will understand all serve a function for him thanks to the movie.

One issue many people who enter the hands of psychiatrists, who aim to do well, is how medication can have all sorts of side effects. One many people comment on is weight gain but depending on the medication, or medication 'cocktail' there can be a type of 'depersonalisation' sometimes.

In other words a dimming of a persons light. An arrest of the spirit. 

Now do not get me wrong people need the medication especially if they are a danger to themselves or others. There is no debate there but there is a cost - sometimes.

Did you know one in four adults in Ireland currently take an antidepressant compared to one in twenty in the UK. 

The axis of the movie was how an ordinarily seeming teenager enters into a crisis and ends up with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. You are given a unique insight into what he is going through and especially of his mind in crisis. 

This is why I believe everyone should see the movie especially family  members who can only conceive but not perceive what psychosis is actually like to experience. The experience of the movie I hope will engender a lot of compassion. By being given a taste of what psychosis is like for those experiencing it through the special effects in the movie compassion can only increase towards people living with the condition.   

You will particularly love the speech at the end of the movie by Adam which should be shown in all schools. 

His mothers role was brilliantly played by Molloy Parker who as soon as the diagnosis came, went on a courageous quest to find the best doctors and medication for her son. A diagnosis that happens shortly into when a new romantic relationship for her begins.

​This side of the plot reminded me of the movie Patrick about an young Irish man living with the same condition.  The dynamic between his mother and himself is beautifully explored plus his natural drive to individualise against her worry that he will cope and the ability to let him go into his adult life. 

Not since BBC Eastender's has there been a character so convincing in explaining through art and acting what it is like for people living with a mental illness. Back in 1996 Paul Nichols played the role for 16 months of Joe Wicks where he explores through the role what living with schizophrenia is all about. 

This was a very brave directorial decision at that time and by doing so created a discussion around mental health which at that time was taboo. By comparison to today where mental health is now thankfully spoken about more openly and issues around it are not focused on people who have had a diagnosis or having being sectioned.  For we now know mental health effects everyone. 
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Charlie Plummer has created a brilliant performance under the direction of director Thor Freudenthal
 
For all those interested in mental health, meditation and mindfulness you have to watch this movie.

Apart from being an enjoyable movie the insight you get is priceless. 

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