Putting him in a nut house doesn't give you license to play so crazed and be taken seriously. My favorite in this movie is, far and away, Kate Winslet, who is a lynch pin to behavioral recognizability. Whatever tie this movie has to normality is provided by her steady character and she shines as she makes her way amidst the depiction of debauchery and scurillous excesses of her peers. She's the one I root for. It seemed to me just so much play-acting.
Exaggeration is dangerous to believability and engagement.
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