In the film, Monk's son says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions owing to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s.
在片里，孟克的儿子T.S.Monk表示，父亲有时认不出他来，而且在1960年后期由于精神疾病的恶化而不时住院。