A comedy take on mental illness & holes in the plot

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2018)

After watching the movie I peeked at the reviews and was surprised that many people were upset that the movie didn't display a person dealing with such things realistically. Personally, I think their behaviour fit well with the genre and general mood of the movie and I didn't find it entirely odd (though there were some holes in the plot that were overlooked).
The movie was missing the lows of the bipolar state but as I can see they didn't go for a realistical portrayal this is fair. I think the heights were somewhat there - the naivety that he's going to get his wife back, his attempts to get better or her motivation to deceive him about Nikky's letters. Some of their irrational behaviour was on spot. Everyone was a tad ill which added on the comedy factor. This is by no means a serious movie.
Illness aside, the plot definitely had some issues. We don't learn what he says to Nikky at the end (which should be important to us) for one, and it's highly unrealistic that she would go seeing him after she cheated on him. I think they missed to add some more dramatic scenes for us to see the two protagonist resolve their past, so we'd get a closure - this stage was completely skipped and they moved from being sick to being fine in one go.
The acting was nice and I had fun watching it despite the holes in the plot, although it's not worth rewatching.