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Old Feb 18, 2013, 12:27 AM
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I recently watched the Stephen Fry doc. It's on YouTube if anyone is curious. I normally get quite bored during the intro to bipolar disorder type flicks and thought that's all that it would be but, it wasn't! Well, some of it was but Stephen's personal accounts were quite interesting though I think his midfilm mood shifts were total gimmicks for the camera. I didn't like how they portrayed Carrie Fisher either. The music and camera work in her home and Stephen's comment about imagining her off medication was rather rude but, maybe that's because I really don't find Carrie Fisher to come across as that crazy or even particularily abnormal in her public appearances and personal accounts of bipolar. I relate!

I also like that that film deals with the question of agreeing to be medicated or not and that Stephen Fry and others in the documentary are doing it without medication. It isn't a documentary that tells us what we need to do with our lives but, what we should know.
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