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\nI reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s latest, Die My Love<\/a><\/i>, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Here’s what I wrote on Instagram:<\/p>\n It hits a niche (perhaps) sweet spot of yours truly: people blather on and on (AND ON) about destigmatizing mental illness – but they only mean when it presents in socially acceptable ways. I see this over and over (and over) and I can\u2019t STAND it. Not sure what people think a mental breakdown looks like. Adorable? Sympathetic? Crying and writing in your journal? When the \u201creal thing\u201d actually shows up, people recoil from the bad behavior, the public embarrassment, etc. Message received. You still want SOME kinds of expression stigmatized. Got it. Like I said: this is somewhat niche and so close to me I might lack objectivity but *I don\u2019t care*. I\u2019ve watched endless cycles of what happens when a famous person cracks up publicly. I always want to say \u201cthe person is SICK. I\u2019m not sure what you THINK that looks like.\u201d I\u2019ve often thought that if I were famous in 2009 I would have been mocked and criticized and judged – by people who consider themselves tolerant. I was raging through Manhattan, making public spectacles of myself, and I know I was difficult and sometimes scary but I was * fucking sick*. And had no help. So there\u2019s my shpeel. If you feel defensive reading this, then this is for you specifically! Consider yourself named. And so I thought of all this watching DIE MY LOVE. It\u2019s relentless and unpleasant but \u2026 it\u2019s so close first person it actually comes close to being a pure distillation of what it actually feels like to lose it. It doesn\u2019t present the experience. It expresses it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Again, here’s my review<\/a>, where I go into all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s latest, Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Here’s what I wrote on Instagram: It hits a niche (perhaps) sweet spot of yours truly: people blather on and on (AND ON) about destigmatizing mental … Continue reading