unfufilled — missing teaching Kindergarten, missing art (and unable to use my toxically beloved oil paints anymore), missing a plain
old creative identity separate from motherhood.
Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as
identity, voice,
creative output, and that age
old question of what it really means to sell out.