Posted by fayeroe on March 6, 2009, at 15:50:10
In reply to What they give w/one hand, they take w/the other, posted by Neal on March 5, 2009, at 21:36:45
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> I appreciate films like A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), which attempt to erase prejudice against those with mental deficiencies.
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> But the same star who played the hero in A BEAUTIFUL MIND, Russell Crowe, then makes MASTER AND COMMANDER (2003) in which a man aboard his ship, obviously badly depressed, hangs himself. After this suicide, the wind comes up, and all's well aboard ship again. Unbelievable BS!
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> What the film stars do with one hand, they seem to take away with another.I need to see "Beautiful Mind". I hardly watch any movies and I definitely want to see it. But not the second one.
I used to work in a prison and every time that there was a disturbance the warden blamed it on "bipolar" mental problems. I am bipolar and I always wanted to bitch slap him. :-)
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