Anyone see Silver Linings Playbook?

[MissMillie]

I saw it a while back.

At the beginning of the movie the main character is being release from a psychiatric hospital. He'd been diagnosed w/ a couple of disorders.

And not long after returning home he has an episode. During this episode I could hear the people in the rows behind me laughing. (Brad Cooper was pretty convincing in this role, BTW.)

And all I could think of was, "what is so funny about mental illness?"

Disturbing.

[Flaxbee]

1. hey, MissMillie, long time no see.

Haven't seen it; might catch it on DVD.

My dad was a psychiatrist, so we all grew up thinking of mental illness as just any other illness - which it is. Too many people think of it as a personal failure. Or some sort of deformity.

Robert DeNiro broke down in tears about bipolar disorder in an interview a few days ago...

[elleng]

2. No one laughed when I saw it.

Very polite, dem, and p.c. neighborhood.

[RobinA]

3. I Don't Think

they were laughing at mental illness, they were just laughing at the situation. Unless you have experienced someone with mania, that scene would have seemed pretty out there. If you HAVE experienced someone with mania, you aren't laughing at that scene you are trying to avoid flashbacks.

[Phentex]

4. Some people laugh when they are uncomfortable...

I can always tell when our office manager is uncomfortable or unsure when she laughs inappropriately after something I've said. Not a guffaw, but more of a giggle. She is trying to process. It seems really strange but I noticed a pattern. I have known others to do this.

Many people who see this movie have never witnessed episodes like the ones they portray. I almost immediately "saw" my sister (in both main characters) based on what I had seen in our life growing up. My sister was misdiagnosed for years and the outbursts were hard for the rest of us to comprehend UNTIL we had a better understanding of her illness.

I think it's rude and wrong to laugh at such, but I wonder if it has more to do with a lack of understanding.