I'll be glad to know what you think. Like I said, this movie is the most realistic one I have seen about mental illness, but the boy with bipolar is -- for me anyway -- not a sympathetic character. I think the movie could have made him a sympathetic character if they showed more about his "sweet nature," which his mother keeps saying he has and I sure didn't see that in the movie. Probably anyone with MI has a sweet and compassionate side to themselves. What do others think about this claim?