Mental Health Update

A good review of the Hindi film 15 Park Avenue which deals with schizophrenia.

Sen has a brilliant hidden reference to The Exorcist, the classic horror movie. In Sen’s movie, Meethi urinates on the carpet exactly the same way as the possessed girl does in the classic. More than a coincidence, this action seems to be a comment on exorcism and other forms of belief in the supernatural, which are the results of the human fear of the unknown. Schizophrenia falls into the category of things we have to live with, but which we can’t cure or understand. In many ways, movies add to the popular clichés that exist in society about madness. This is one movie that seeks to be honest and objective about the issue.

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