What Am I Watching?

Rating: 2/10 (4 August 2019)

I know I saw this film a long time ago, but I didn't remember that most of the film is people mistreating an elderly man with crippling psychological problems. Now I'm watching Cuba Gooding Jr. threaten an old man with physical violence just because he (Cuba) is having a bad day. Then he foists an unhousebroken dog on said old man despite the fact that the old man is so crippled by his phobia of germs that when he goes home he washes his hands in literally scalding hot water with a brand new bar of antibacterial soap, only to throw away the bar of soap halfway and continue with another new bar, only to throw that one away when he's done.
This is a man who cannot step on a crack in the sidewalk in New York City. This is a man who cannot eat a meal anywhere but one restaurant, at the exact same time, at the exact same table, with his own plastic silverware he brings with him, and if his regular waitress isn't there he literally can't eat for the day. This man has CRIPPLING psychological issues which we're shown over and over are completely outside of his control, and yet they're being played for laughs. Even his therapist treats him like garbage. And when the old man makes serious attempts to be nice to people, all Cuba Gooding Jr. does is laugh at how socially awkward he is.
Where were the activists and advocates for the mentally ill when this film came out? I'm about as far from either type as you can get, and this movie is horrifying to me. How are people watching this and laughing? It'd be like if The King's Speech was played as a comedy, and every time Colin Firth stuttered the other characters pointed and laughed or yelled at him for not being normal. It's really, really awful.