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It's a thin line filmmakers should walk when depicting mental illness in a movie. The line is thinner when the class you're working in is a romance, one that flirts with being a romantic parody. The risk is, that you'll get over into "adorable," and there's nothing charming about being mentally ill, or coping with somebody who is in your life.
The Aussie romance "I Met a Girl" doesn't stumble into much difficulty, in that regard. We meet our schizophrenic legend — Devon — similarly as he's decided to do without his pills and quaff a couple. I mean, it's his sibling Nick's wedding day and Devon's written a tune that he and his band, And They Said it Wouldn't Last, are performing.
He wants to "be there," right? The tune is charming, and kid band handsome Devon (Brenton Thwaites of the last "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie) pulls it off with ebullience and talent.
In any case, as they do, things go manically, violently off-base and Devon winds up in a hospital.
"I was twelve when I first hear the voices," he narrates. We have our diagnosis, and the extent of Devon's concern. Being beautiful and talented doesn't inoculate you against schizophrenia.
Five years later, and he's living with Nick (Joel Jackson) and his expectant, tolerant wife Olivia (Zahra Newman). In any case, Devon is still dodging his pills, when he can. Manic episodes mean he can't keep a task. Working at a pet store, he reacts to a conceived menace/animal abusing kid by flipping out and freeing all the budgies.
He carries his guitar all over, yet he can't get the band back together.
"Time to grow up, mate," they advise him.
And the two voices in his head go after him when he's unmedicated and having a bad day. Mr. Rocket is a hero "defender" who drives him into risks. Miss Needle is a Nurse Ratched menace, terrorizing him with injections, tormenting him over his failings.
They drive him up on a rooftop and off it.
Just he doesn't die. He wakes up in a beautiful woman's clawfoot tub. She "dragged" him there, she says. Her name is Lucy (Lily Sullivan of TV's "Picnic at Hanging Rock"). She's flirtatious, kind, open and direct.
"Like, would you say you were trying to kill yourself?"
She has one of those glorious "just in the movies" flats that no one whose work is dressing up like Marilyn Monroe as a waitress for a '50s themed diner. She drops everything she's doing to go through the day with Devon, and they fall in adoration in a flash.
We think it well before he says it. "It's like I've dreamt you."
Is she all in his head, a fantasy that his mind has created to fill one of the many voids in his life? We'll realize when joins Nick and Devon for dinner. Just she doesn't appear.
Her flat is unfilled. And real-estate agent Nick, with a baby coming, has no patience for Devon's mad fantasy.
"She's as real as you and I" isn't convincing.
In any case, Devon has a piece of information, and on or off his drugs, he's going to seek after it. He'll leave Perth and cross Australia to Sydney and find his Lucy. And on or off his drugs, he'll have adventures all along the way.
Filmmakers Luke Eve and Glen Dolman, Aussie TV veterans, concoct a couple of adorable episodes for Devon's journey, and a couple of harrowing minutes as his evil spirits literally chase him crosscountry, with frantic Nick trying to figure out where his crazy kid sibling's no more.
Visualizing Devon's illness — with actors playing his two "voices" — is much less scary than aurally simulating what's going on in his head. In any case, taking care to never allow us to fail to remember the seriousness of his condition shortchanges the "charming" experiences he has on his "road parody" venture.
Meeting somebody very much like himself is an or more, however different meetings are hit and miss.
Thwaites, who apparently does his own singing, has to carry the picture with his charm, and he almost does. He's charismatic and charming and doe-looked at in his scenes with Sullivan, who appears to be more seasoned (she isn't), world weary and wiser.
The players give "I Met a Girl" a warm and fluffy romantic lilt. Yet, all that one can say for the script is that it gives the charming stars a nice little while, and that it generally doesn't fall for the "Love can fix what ails you" mental health romantic comedy trap.
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