Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Upside down views

Mental (2012)

Written and directed by P. J. Hogan this film stars Toni Collette, Rebecca Gibney, Liev Schreiber, Anthony LaPaglia and Lily Sullivan. After their mother has a mental break down five girls find that a strange woman has been brought in to look after them.

This film oozes Australian at just about every turn and while at times it seems unsure who the central character is the focus of the film is clearly mental health. The question here is does it deal with a sensitive topic well and I think at times you could well argue that the film does trivialise mental health problems. Mostly the film is well made and acted but the script is a bit of a mess that holds the film back.


2/5

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