Aggrandizes insanity

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 2010)

This wholly misguided effort attempts to celebrate the self destruction of a mentally ill man.
Even more odd is how the narrative attempts to convey some kind of perversion of a redemptive character arc.
Ironically, the film is inadvertently symbolic of the hardcore American Left -- showcases the naivete, misguided ego and ultimate reckoning of those whom Lenin allegedly anointed "useful idiots."
But then, what would one expect from the naive, misguided ego of Sean Penn?
Brings to mind the 1942 Italian production of Ayn Rand's "We The Living" ("Noi vivi"), of which the misguided Mussolini was so proud...because he didn't grasp how the film undercut his own warped political philosophy.