Majorly depressing

Rating: Null/10 (19 October 2001)

I guess the real difference between a lunatic and a genius is that the genius gets applauded and the lunatic gets committed.
I came away from this flic feeling sorry for Kaufman, but not because he was a misunderstood genius. If he was anything like the person portrayed by Carrey (and other readers assure us he was) there was something profoundly wrong with the man, but because people found his problems entertaining, they preferred to watch him self-destruct.
I guess we could get into a debate about the reality of mental illness. We could debate Kaufman's sanity. But somebody that driven to get a reaction out of people -- to the point where his own family didn't even know whether or not to believe him when he told them he had cancer -- needed psychiatric help, not a critique of his "performance."