User Reviews

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I wasn't expecting much from this when I looked on IMDb before watching it. Turns out that the movie is lingering, dark, and realistic. A couple of made-for-TV style moments, but nothing that really detracted. In terms of the acting, I was engaged by it and felt there was subtlety and nuance.

It did a good job of defining the line between softer and empathetic approaches to extreme mental health issues and the medical model which aims to kill and destroy deviant and unacceptable thoughts and behaviours. I liked the interplay of these opposing views.

Raised interesting questions like how far would a compassionate person (in this case, a well devised figure of a social worker) go to protect human life. And when do we apply judgement/control and when should we have mercy/empathy on people that don't share common human values with the "rest of us". Seems that we are no closer to knowing how to regard the extraordinary functioning of the human psyche.

SPOILERS!!

I'm Bi Polar II, Atypical Depression, OCD.

Those aren't the spoilers :)

I've been in a few psych wards when I felt a little too close to suicidal.

Thank God it's been over a dozen years since the last time and I'm doing ok.

But I did have reactions to some meds that made me hear music that wasn't real and have conversations that didn't happen.

I remember crying on the floor in the psych ward because my girlfriend had dumped me on the phone just then. Only she didn't. It wasn't real.

It stopped after they took me off that med!

And I met a LOT of Schizophrenics and Bi Polar folks and folks with hosts of other issues.

This movie reminds me of some of the stories fellow patients told me, nothing NEAR as drastic or horrific, with the damage to themselves being the worst damage they did.

One poor guy sliced his neck to pieces because a voice told him to. Thank God he survived. He was a good guy and you would never know he had issues when he is on his medication.

One guy did hide in his closet with a shotgun and that could have ended very badly since he thought he was being stalked. Thank God it didn't.

So this movie is the real deal and of course VERY, VERY RARE...but it's not fantasy nor complete fiction.

This movie made me thankful that I don't have extreme issues like this guy did.

But it also frightened me because it made me think...the times the meds did make me hear voices and music, it was pretty damn real and pretty damn terrifying at the time.

People giving this 1 or 2 stars are SO OFF BASE, heck they're not even on the field.

And they must no NO ONE intimately who has mental illness.

No, we are not monsters. Even those Very Few violent ones among us.

But yes, we are broken.

Medication is like glue that keeps puts us together after it's discovered we're broken. Therapy too.

Scary...no, not just scary.... horrifying is what I think this movie is. And I don't get horrified easily.

I knew after a few minutes that the friend was not real.

I NEVER saw the ending coming. When the roommate called her a "freak", I should have realized.

Even at the end, when she was being so nasty in front of the therapist, I knew something was off but still didn't figure it out.

Then of course the last line or two gave it away.

That and the fact that she was not on the couch in the last image where she was supposed to be sitting!!! :)

Enjoy this movie, learn from it, get terrified and horrified because that is what we watch horror movies for.

I'm SURE all of your are smart enough to know that OF COURSE this is an extreme example of the illness, but...IT'S A MOVIE!!

Watching a movie about me taking pills every 8 hours while leading a relatively normal life would be pretty boring :)

And ignore the bad reviews. They are from people who likely have led charmed lives. I am glad for them. I would have the same negative reaction too if I had no idea about mental illness, I guess.

I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, but just to be safe, I'm marking this as possibly containing spoilers.

For starters, if it hadn't been for the horrific, disturbing "music" I would have given this 7 stars. As it was, with the "music" being completely unbearable, I turned on the captioning & turned the volume almost off (I was streaming on Netflix). Unless you're as mentally disturbed as the lead character, I advise you to do the same.

All the actors did a good job portraying their characters, believably.

The story and subject matter were actually pretty interesting to me and and I rarely like or watch bloody horror films, what is what I consider this to be - just my opinion.

I think this is the first film I've seen that gave me, I think, a realistic view of what it's like to suffer from schizophrenia - hearing voices and experiencing hallucinations.

All in all, not too bad. Unfortunately, I think the "music" was overdone and not necessary to portray the mental illness of a couple of the characters - which is, what I think the film makers believed would be helpful. It was not and it brought my rating down, considerably.

Great film! better than 'Birdman'!!! Not sure who left that lengthy bash-fest spoiler... possibly someone cut from the production crew?!

I would keep in mind this film is on an indie budget. the actors performed well, & the story-line was on point. overall enjoyable, intriguing & believable. Well done!

I'd actually go as far as saying this film is MUCH better than 'Birdman'. Although they both explore similar Psychological dramas... where an individual loses their grip & suffers from a psychological break from reality, the difference between the two films is that this film, 'Enter the Dangerous Mind', goes deeper... darker & focuses more on the story-line. In contrast 'Birdman' focuses more on the cinematic elements & relies heavily on the star-power of Michael Keaton. I give this an 8/10... worth watching!