Demonizing mentally ill people
This is such a stupid movie i swear to god
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MovieChat Forums > The Visit (2015) Discussion > Demonizing mentally ill people
I loved this movie - funny AND scary.
But I admit when I left the thought struck me: "AND the moral of this story is that crazy people deserve to die". Of course that's not really true, but violently homicidal crazy people should not be out in the community.
You need to calm down. It's a movie. No ones "demonizing" anyone. And I thought it was creepy fun and really recommend it. If it wasn't in the genre that it is, the lead Grandma lady would be nominated for an Oscar because she's outstanding.
shareIf it wasn't in the genre that it is, the lead Grandma lady would be nominated for an Oscar because she's outstanding.
Yeah, I'd say she was about 3/4 of the movie. share
Lol the moral of the story I got was, DONT BE A *beep* PARENT. Seriously. This bitch couldn't put aside her differences with her parents to make sure her children arrived safely and that they were taken care of. She could've at least taken them to the damn house, sht
shareI had known of the twist before viewing it last night. I tried to figure out how Shymalan would handle the switch in a believable way. My guess was that the real grandparents had worked with the demented two at the nursing home/institute and when the two escaped from the institution their plan was to seek asylum at their counselor's farm house. The bit about the home having some juicy gossip implied the demented two had been "a couple" while there before they made their break as "lovers". Not entirely satisfying and there are many other loose ends. Did the authorities know about the faux grandmother's murder of her two infants? But the most important aspect of the film was what I mentioned in my topic just posted.
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I watch a lot of horror/thriller movies with a friend who's bipolar and schizophrenic, but well medicated and totally functional.
Internally I cringe when anyone throws words like insane or crazy around, and when inevitably the killer is schizophrenic or something. It doesn't bother her at all. She actually really enjoyed this movie and thought it was super scary, even though it didn't really bother me. I thought it was kind of crap, but everybody has different tastes, and different sensitivities.
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sharethis has to be your very first horror movie, or you'll have an endless list.
i mostly will not be able to answer your reply, since marissa mayer hacked my email, no notification
Glad to have found a thread that acknowledge that this film portrays mental illness in a grotesque light. Another deficit to this rather substandard comedy horror.
Because an evil/ murderous person has a mental illness does not mean the whole community is being demonized any more than it the characters were played by a certain race, ethnicity, gender orientation. It's a movie, not a campaign against NAMI for Petes sake!
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