Saturday, October 3, 2009

Brilliance and Life on the Streets

Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.'s acting in The Soloist brings to light the struggles of our society to address mental health issues and homelessness in a real way. One that illuminates the 3 block difference between sanity and brilliance, and a life on the streets.
Set in Los Angeles with Skid Row and the Walt Disney Theatre in prominent geographic range, this movie is deeply moving, as it goes back and forth between these worlds, with virtually no boundaries.
Having known great brilliance with mental health issues and having watched the almost inevitable destruction, there are no easy answers and perhaps no answers at all.

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