Mind Twisting

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2015)

This film came into my life at a time when success in college was great, psychiatrically very sick with Bipolar Disorder I, Borderline Personality Disorder, General Anxiety and PTSD, and pathologically ill with inner ear, sinus & brain swelling. The film was immensely enjoyable for me, as it gave me an even closer look into the male psyche. An immeasurably blighted male psyche but, one all too typically male. It wasn't until the close of the film, when it is revealed that the whole experience was merely a lapse back and forth, much like Bipolar Disorder psychosis events, in the lead character's mind. Personally having been blessed with psychiatric illnesses, the film stabbed into my conscious for weeks on end with fear of myself moving that far into psychosis on a lengthy, violent and absent from my conscious thought processing cycle. The film is the most petrifying and fear invoking work I have yet to date witness as a psychiatric patient, myself. Incredible work to present the pre-dispositions to serious mental health issues and, a prime example of the things that can and do happen all over the world in the minds of 1 in 4 people with mental health disorders and illnesses everywhere. After only one viewing, I have not been able to view it again for worry that it will cause a setback in my own struggles in my daily life living with mental illnesses. Perfect film for those not suffering with mental health issues to "walk in our shoes" for a couple of hours to understand what it is like to not understand what is going on right in front of your face.