Not exact matches
In our society, there still exist a
lot of stereotypes
about mental illness, and because people either don't want to deal with it or they've been hurt, they will choose to avoid opening up
about it.
It takes a
lot of courage to talk
about mental illness, and this is where Jennifer succeeds.
A
lot of our favorite artists are either suffering or have suffered from
mental illness and talked
about it within their music.
And like Lady Bird, within this modest story, weightier topics surfaced — just as Lady Bird proves to be a sly commentary on socioeconomic status and how that affects personhood, Silver Linings Playbook has a
lot to say
about mental illness with its plucky protagonists (stuff that psychiatrists agree with, for what it's worth).
He finds madness and mayhem from four very different artists: Paul Noble's invented world Nobson which has become an entire world (with an awful
lot of poo in it), Spartacus Chetwynd's interactive «medieval morality plays» and two nominees which focus on film: Luke Fowler's long film All Divided Selves all
about madness and
mental illness and Elizabeth Price's The Woolworths Choir of 1979.