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LightningThief posted...

He needs to be likable for mental illness to matter?

I'd argue that kind of thinking is why mental illness is so poor.

You look a tiny fragment of what I said and tried to make a point while ignoring the entire rest of the post, but yes, if you're making a movie where you're trying to get people to get behind a main character as the vehicle of a message about something, maybe don't make him a murderous stalker.

Because otherwise, who is this movie for? If the point is to bring awareness to mental illness, then people who realize mental illness needs more attention don't need to hear this message, and the people who do need a reason to care. This movie chose to make that message "Help the mentally ill, because if you don't they'll turn into murderous psychopaths who will break into your apartment because they came up with a fantasy you were dating"