Monk is imminently reliable—you tune in to see a character you know and love do exactly what they do best, over and over again. It’s perfect binge viewing for the chronically depressed.
Twelve Monkeys investigates how mental illness operates cognitively through the use of speculative metaphor.
Arrival is as much about the value of working to understand an unfamiliar other as it is about working to be understood.
We need to talk about guns. We need to talk about mental health. We need to talk about misogyny. We need to talk about violence. We need to talk about trauma.
For all its silliness and strangeness and morally questionable underpinnings, Iron Man 3 offers less a manual on how to overcome trauma than a rough and complicated picture of what that might look like.
On Robin Williams, depression, and The Birdcage
My body was a haunted house. I was going to have to start getting used to it.
Vivien Leigh portrayed Blanche DuBois with the skill of a genuinely humanist artist: tolerant, full of compassion and lucidity, devoid of illusions but also of judgment.
"The first time I watched I Smile Back, I resolved not to be like Laney, to take the film as a cautionary tale. But that was two years ago, and still I find myself circling back to the same type of mistakes I’ve always made."
The Dardenne brothers are known for their unflinching portrayals of working class life in Belgium, and with Two Days, One Night, they shed light on how difficult it can be to support a loved one in poor mental health.
