Slowly spending the summer working through every Perkins movie and I gotta say, as much as his iconic Norman changed Horror I find this to be his best performance I've seen so far. His performance
showed such a remarkable amount of depth and complexity I found my self so glued to the screen obsessed with it. You can of course see the groundwork for Hitchcock here but you can also see his capacity for drama and charm. I just adored it. He copied the mannerisms of Jim while still keeping it himself- it worked really well.
Plus, as a To Kill a Mockingbird fan it's hard not to see the talent Robert Mulligan had in every movie. There was so much here that moved me and generally I am not a sports movie person.
Admittedly, as about 4 people in my adult life and I guess now letterbox know -but fuck it who cares I'm not ashamed- I am bipolar from CTE (exterior brain damage) in my teens and found this movie quite tough to watch as a result ... found it to be a hard reminder of some rough years I don't talk about anymore... but good god it also was a powerful & maybe even wonderful reminder of how much modern medications changed my life and how much it took to come as far as I did. And man am I thankful for that. As inaccurate as this film may have been to the true story, it's a really moving representation of severe mental illness that was shockingly modern in it's destigmitization. Maybe it should have hit that chapter sooner but it left on a thoughtful and intentional note. I loved "I'm afraid too Mary. But I want to play" There's always that fear of regression but passion that fights it.
This movie had quite of flaws but boy did it affect me so
Slowly spending the summer working through every Perkins movie and I gotta say, as much as his iconic Norman changed Horror I find this to be his best performance I've seen so far. His performance
showed such a remarkable amount of depth and complexity I found my self so glued to the screen obsessed with it. You can of course see the groundwork for Hitchcock here but you can also see his capacity for drama and charm. I just adored it. He copied the mannerisms of Jim while still keeping it himself- it worked really well.
Plus, as a To Kill a Mockingbird fan it's hard not to see the talent Robert Mulligan had in every movie. There was so much here that moved me and generally I am not a sports movie person.
Admittedly, as about 4 people in my adult life and I guess now letterbox know -but fuck it who cares I'm not ashamed- I am bipolar from CTE (exterior brain damage) in my teens and found this movie quite tough to watch as a result ... found it to be a hard reminder of some rough years I don't talk about anymore... but good god it also was a powerful & maybe even wonderful reminder of how much modern medications changed my life and how much it took to come as far as I did. And man am I thankful for that. As inaccurate as this film may have been to the true story, it's a really moving representation of severe mental illness that was shockingly modern in it's destigmitization. Maybe it should have hit that chapter sooner but it left on a thoughtful and intentional note. I loved "I'm afraid too Mary. But I want to play" There's always that fear of regression but passion that fights it.
This movie had quite of flaws but boy did it affect me so
