![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say, schizophrenia does not actually manifest in the form of movie-ready sidekicks.īut again, hear me out, Words on Bathroom Walls still manages to work, partly because it’s presented with such heartfelt conviction-and partly because the sidekicks are used sparingly.Īlso, very much to the film’s credit, Adam’s schizophrenia is not “cured” (there is no cure), nor is this one of those films where a mentally ill person throws away his pills because he’s his truest and most creative self when he’s off them (although it flirts with that). ![]() And then there’s his bruising, bald-headed Bodyguard (Lobo Sebastian), the only slightly menacing one of the three, who is nonetheless there to protect him. ![]() There’s Joaquin (Devon Bostick), a girl-crazy stoner wingman. There’s Rebecca (AnnaSophia Robb), a Coachella-ready flower child, always dispensing words of new age wisdom. In his case, that manifests as not just visions and voices and paranoid delusions, but invisible buddies-seen only by him-that wouldn’t be out of place in a jokey Marvel pic. Our teenage hero, Adam (Charlie Plummer), has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For large chunks of the film, its depiction of mental illness is overly facile, bordering on cutesy. Words on Bathroom Walls shouldn’t have worked. ![]()
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