The importance of the movie "Crazy About Her" in a world where mental illness is seen as a joke.

It's Saturday night and you want to see a romantic comedy movie to relax by yourself or with your lover. You see this movie "Crazy About Her" ("Loco Por Ella" in original by Netflix) and already think "wow maybe it's beautiful". if you were expecting a classic romantic movie, you're wrong. This movie brings us to a real situation with a bipolar person. of course, there's laughter, there's jokes and yes, there's a lot of love. but most of all, "Crazy About Her" breaks all the paradigm that you had in your mind about mental disorder by bringing not just a bipolar woman, but also a person with toulouse, a man who has OCD and others. The main content is about a guy named Adri who met Carla, this amazing, spontaneous  - and kind of crazy - girl in a bar. They spent a night together doing some crazy things like crashing a marriage party and getting into the brides suite. For him, it was the best night of his life but she warned that it was a one-night only. But, as you can imagine already, he couldn't get her off his mind. Lucky for him, she left her jacket behind and there was a little paper in with her name as...a patient in a psychiatric institution. Wait, what? Yes. Adri can not believe she's "crazy" and he tries to get in and talk to her, to get her number. But of course, it's a place where you can't just get in. Our boy is so crazy about her that he bought a medical appointment (!!!) to be interned at the clinic to see her. Adri remembered Carla as that passionate and excited woman,  but it turns out that he sees, in the mental hospital, a different person. He wasn't expecting a calm and concentrated girl who didn't even remember him. The story really starts here. 

Locked in the clinic (because he got in, but forget about getting out and even telling he was a journalist, he couldn't get out), he met a lot of other persons with different mental disorders and if you're thinking he reacted well... no way. His prejudices interfere with the way he sees those people, like they were crazy and almost animals. This is the point of view of most of us, because mental illnesses are catalogued by our society as crazy stuff that needs to be hidden. In the beginning, he writes a horrible article about those patients and how they're the trash of the world. Carla, at some point, tells him she's bipolar and, with time, he realizes they're just humans, like everyone else. They have some problems? Yes, but who doesn't? My point here is: do we need to get into a psychiatric institution to respect those persons? To see they have a problem, yes, but that it doesn't make them un-human? This movie makes me realize how much we stigma mental disorder, trying to cover this open wound without talking about it. Treating it like a monster that's must be out of the view, or even worse, seeing this as a joke, without realizing how dangerous it can be. Adri, in the ficcion, notices how those patients are judged in the society and, most of all, he understands that they need medical treatment and respect. They must live their lives like everyone. 

He left his prejudices and his offences behind and , after a several events - like Carla stopping take her medicine after a conversation where he tells her she can gets better by her own, and, obviously, her mood swings got more intense, and she almost put her life in dangerous - he finally understands that mental disorder is a problem that needs medical treatment and medical attendance. And above all, needs respect. He starts to see those disorders as part of those persons and embrace them. I hope that you, and everyone else, see this movie and start to reflect about it. Do you know someone with mental illness? Or someone close to you didn't tell because of the fear of judgment? We live in a society where appearance is the most important thing, with social media putting those standart on our lives. But what's after that? What's behind your perfect makeup? Do you really see people or you see just the filter? "Crazy About Her" showed me how we need to embrace the differences - and not just the visible ones. 

ps: I already apologize for any grammatical problems! I'm starting to write in english but I promise I'll get better!

With much of love,

Maybe Mavi.