It's pretty often that someone from cyberspace e-mails me on the various sites for single and attached people like Facebook, Hi5, OKCupid!, and etc. It is also common that the conversation lasts about a week and then we NEVER MEET. I remember back in February I was texting this guy from Spain who lives here. We met on OKCupid! I am older than him. He is in his twenties and I am in my forties. But does ageism equivalent to cruelty to persons!!!??? I should start a society similar to the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals called the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to People on the Internet! Everyone is just a delete-a-way!
Fortunately, in TWO LOVERS, Joaquin Phoenix's character, Leonard, does not go on the internet to find a date. His parents are trying to set him up with one wholesome woman and he meets his vixen in the hallway of the building where he lives with his parents. Do we feel sorry for this character? He's supposed to be "bipolar." Excuse me, but this word is used to often to describe EVERYONE........................
Joaquin, I love your acting, but you didn't come off as a DSMV-IV version of a person with bipolar disorder. AND, it is a tragedy when this disorder cannot be properly treated. AND, it is a tragedy that so many people cannot communicate the fact that something better came up or that in the words of Boris and Natasha, "easy come, easy go."
While we were watching the film, my friend showed me a YouTube excerpt from the Letterman show in which Mr. Dave makes fun of Joaquin. My friend thought he was having a nervous breakdown. I thought he was bringing some dignity to an otherwise unfriendly world.
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Mental illness is just not funny. I suspect those that make fun of it are for the most part seeing it from the "outside" or are in denial themselves. I mean, just imagine the frustration of coming to grips with the fact that your life has been completely out of your control since the onset . . . the missed opportunities, the misunderstandings. Nope, not funny at all.
And, and, oh yeah. I was wondering if you had a review of Jim Jarmusch's "Dean Man". The William Blake character. The Nobody comment about not drinking from still waters. It'd be interesting to read your comments coming from a lit. background, no? Maybe William Blake is too modern . . never seen you mention 'im before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_major_(fish)
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