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This is a heartbreaking story about how schizophrenia destroys a man's life. I find the story very engaging, and very real. It is great to see Simon Pegg in a serious role, and he's convincing in it too.

If you know anything about depression or psychosis you'll "get" this. Yes it's not subtle, or heartwarming or a redemption story but that's what makes it feel less Hollywood and more real. Pegg gives a great performance and Juno does well with less showy material. Well worth a viewing 7/10

Hats off to Katharine for her directorial debut. She did a great job portraying someone with mental illness. The truth is heart breaking and painful to watch. It's moving and upsetting. Great film to raise awareness about mental illness, something that should become a casual topic yet there still is stigma about it. It was nice to see Simon Pegg in a modest and serious role. He was authentic and accurate. Juno Temple was captivating. Her vulnerability and internal life are beautiful to watch.

This is such a complicated one. And I guess that is kind of the crux of this movie. It doesn't know what it supposed to be. It is not a movie movie about how the health care system fails mental patients. There are only two scenes about that otherwise it is never mentioned again. Is it not about mental illness either. We see mental illness but it is rather an attempt to show us what it looks like than dealing with it the rational of it. But I won't dare to call it a bad film because Juno Temple and Simon Pegg are absolutely out of this world great. Both in their performances and their chemistry with each other. Temple never ceases to amaze me anyway but I would say this is her best role and it is Peggs best as well. Watch it if you love amazing acting or love Temple and/or Pegg.

The movie throws you into characters and their dynamics without ever establishing them in a way that...I don't know...makes sense. To the story. In the movie. Which generally appears to not know what it wants. Except maybe have the protagonist be stupid as hell in their dealing with Theo.

Which...it was hard to gage whether or not that was on purpose. Because no writer/director can be that oblivious. And Juno Temple did play her very much a like an idiotic LA type.

But then again the movie also played everything pretty straight. Except maybe for Daddario's character, who the movie sort of made fun of as a representation of the current LA music scene. All the while having the protagonist and their circle be equally as pretentious.

I don't know. I wanted to catch up on what Simon Pegg had been up to, and it had a 5 point average on here, and that one is pretty accurate. Pegg and Temple weren't bad technically, their characters were just written terribly. Or just integrated into the story very badly. Unfortunately that can make really good acting look really stupid.

I really liked the stylistic vision of the movie, though. Even though the sound editing could have used some more work.

But the general style, even if not groundbreaking or amazing or anything, was the movie's saving grace.