I think that this is pyscho idiotic crud.
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headlights_on_the_highway — 21 years ago(March 27, 2005 09:19 AM)
Yeah, the thing that really really really bugged me about this movie is that that isn't even chemically depressive behavior. I mean yeah it's common for depressed people to try to kill themselves but to be pasting eyes all over the walls and be wigging out in bathroom stalls. That's like schizophrenic paranoia or something it just pissed me off that the people who made the movie not only didn't take the time to make it a really good movie but they didn't even do their medical research.
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tapalmer99 — 20 years ago(May 11, 2005 05:41 PM)
Fools.
This was a movie about how "love overcomes all".
The "depression" diagnosis was simply for the audience's sake - making the illness, and the fact of irrational behaior, more easily grasped. If they started saying all sorts of ADHD/Bipolar/whatever the actual effect of the of the illness would cause the movie to get lost into it a medical docu-drama. Someone being depressed is easy to understand, "clinical depression" gives the audience a point of reference for the more erratic and less predictable behaior. -
pinkfloyd70 — 20 years ago(May 29, 2005 04:42 PM)
The more appropriate diagnosis would have been "bipolar".or manic depressive. I dont think you (or the film makers) are giving the audience enough credit, many people know what manic depression is and would be perfectly able to see the connection between the character and that mental condition.without it being filled with confusing jargon.
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indiefilmslover — 14 years ago(April 15, 2011 01:50 PM)
Absolutely without a doubt i know this was Borderline Personality disorder. I've studied it in and out in college and on my own time so I know. Also i have Borderline, i can't see them doing a better job at portraying it, it was nearly flawless in every way possible. The families, Chris O'Donnell character, the effect on the families, perfect. I ran my boyfriend through the ringer just like Drew, did the same things almost, have the same behavior yet not as bad now. I saw myself in Drew's character, she was absolutely brilliant.
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KAnnD86 — 20 years ago(March 11, 2006 08:54 PM)
Of course they care about their kid! They probably did call the police, but we didn't see that in the movie because a scene like that would slow down the pace of the movie just at the point it was picking up. The parents were basically helpless. They had no idea where the kids would go, so it would be pointless to drive aimlessly hoping to run into them. The movie wasn't really about the parents anyway. It was about Matt and Casey's relationship.
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!