It's Keane No It's Crews No It's Soames No It's Crews..
Did not have time to post this, but my dvds finally arrived towards the end of last week!!
I've watched Keane and am now in the middle of Forsyte Saga. Will have more to post later on (when I finish Forsyte Saga I), but just know that although I am just devouring this new-to-me Damian Lewis material, it has been a very painful experience watching ( Read more... )
Okay, why do I always end up being the one who gets blamed?! LOL
You know, I worked with a guy who was schizophrenic and amazingly like Keane. This film really hit a nerve with me. Basically, the guy I knew was allowed to come into the office whenever he wanted and work for free. He was brilliant at organizing and would work on projects with me, doing everything I asked with no problems. He was nice looking and usually well kept and attractive. Some of the girls in the office had a weird crush on him. If he had something to focus on, like working, he was incredibly polite, well mannered and gentlemanly. He was ALMOST "normal." And, then juuust when I'd think one day something in his brain would snap back into place and he'd come in completely "normal", he would disppear for weeks on end and we'd worry sick about him until someone would find him wandering around in his little red sweater and white shirt and tie and he'd be all unshaven and dirty and god knows what he'd been up to. Then, he'd start all over again, someone would take him shopping and he'd get new clothes and he'd be back for months on end. I still see him around once in a while, at his usual places and I stop and talk to him. He used to be thrilled to see me, and I was one of the only people he'd let touch him, so he'd hug me. Lately, though, he seems very agitated when he sees me and won't make eye contact, but he SAYS he's happy to see me. He asks about my husband, whom he met several times, and he has total recall of all the people in the office.
My long-winded post is all to say this:
Keane was such a great film and such a great performance by DL mostly because it managed to capture that sense of living RIGHT inbetween being okay and not being okay. And, that's what real mental illness like Keane's is all about. It is such a horrible thing to be so close to being okay and be actually AWARE that you're not okay. I cannot imagine a worse fate than wandering the streets like that, repeating the same hell over and over and over. And, SO many people go through it.
Sorry, if I've depressed the hell out of you, now. THAT, you can blame on me. LOL
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It's the price you pay for brilliance..
LOL
That is one mouthful of a post! I'll read it on my lunch and hit you up later. Right now I'm feeling the eyes of my boss narrowing at me all the way from across town where he's on jury duty...
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When you talk about being so close to okay yet aware that you're actually not, I remember scenes from Keane that exemplify that - the dressing room scene, for example, when he's telling himself that he needs to look presentable because he needs to be an example or the scene when he's in his room telling himself that he needs to get out of his current situation because this isn't a good place for him.
I haven't gone over Keane again, but I plan to (after Forsyte - I've been waylaid again by life - real life, I mean). It's kind of like the accident scene that compels you to stare at it. I have a feeling that I'll be watching Keane over and over for a long time.
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And, those scenes you mentioned from the film? Those were the exact ones that reminded me of Alan so much.
Cruel disease.
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