His son, Patrick, plays the childhood imaginary friend who comes to the aid of a depressed student photographer in the new mental health-themed psychodrama Daniel Isn’t Real. Into the same discourse, which is demanding greater care in terms of how mental health is represented on screen, swaggers Daniel Isn’t Real. Angelina Jolie’s Lisa is a kind of rock’n’roll wish-fulfilment figure for Winona Ryder’s narrator, not so different from Schwarzenegger Jr in Daniel Isn’t Real. Photograph: Allstar/New RegencyThe exterior approach to mental health isn’t necessarily, as Joker’s critics might have it, the less authentic one. In its intimate knowledge and fascination with extreme mental states, German expressionism was the inheritor of the gothic tradition.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 09:56 UTC