The Voices Theory - Who's to Blame for Jerry's Breakdown? | The Fangirl

[@lissasuhar1708]

Being married to someone with a similar mental illness this movie really got to me, especially because I was not expecting to be the movie it is. I cried for Ryan Reynold's character when realizing how bad his world is on his meds and he'd rather be in his happy fantasy world without them. It broke me. Ryan reynolds really showed me his best in this I think.

[@TheFangirlWatches]

It's the unfortunate truth for so many psychotropic medications. They make you complaint for society, and, beyond that, no one cares what it does to your head or how they can demolish your emotional states (like, with depression, instead of feeling highs and lows, you just flatline, which is why I've had several friends who ended up dying rather than choosing between having zero feelings and not being able to get by in the world). T_T

[@lissasuhar1708]

@@TheFangirlWatches I'm having a rough time right now with my husband and his meds,they make him "normal" but he says he feels lik a zombie on them and doesn't want to take them anymore. On the hard road of finding what medication does work with less side effects,but so far he has gotten the best results from THC...

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

The whole subplot of the movie was what Jerry REFUSED to acknowledge; he was a killer. He was psychotic. He was so in to his personal delusions that he could rationalize what he did thru his pets. But what he WANTED more than anything else was to be normal...tho he knew he could never be that. And that was why he ultimately killed himself. This movie made me much more sympathetic to mental illness and why normal folk CANNOT understand the crazies. It was sad...and COMPLETELY understandable. *edit So everything you said lol

[@TheFangirlWatches]

I think that was the most jarring part of the movie - that everyone wanted to help him, but what they could do was extremely limited to where Jerry couldn't even trust the people who meant well.

[@jenniferostenson8101]

Thank you for doing this movie. I really enjoyed the movie when it came out and will have to rewatch to catch some of your observations!

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Oh yes it is great for rewatching! I found it on Starz, if you happen to have that.

[@calliemyersbuchanan6458]

Yeees!! One of my favorite movies EVER!!! So freaking good! The cat voice is so damn funny! Also i don't think he is actually dead yet at the end. I think it's still a state of psychosis. He's just passed out from the fumes. He is imagining/living his ideal after life. And THEN he actually dies when the credits end. Which to me makes it even more tragic. (Then again my lack of belief in an after life may be influencing the way I see this scene.)

[@bertkesurf]

Ryan Reynolds voiced both the dog & cat characters

[@TheFangirlWatches]

You're not wrong, he could totally be in a delusional coma-dream at the end while he's dying, but for all intents and purposes it's essentially the same thing. Even if he was dead at that point it's still his brain filling in a happily ever after.

[@suddentears13]

I'm so glad to see someone talking about this movie! Nobody I've told about it have heard of it

[@TheFangirlWatches]

I know! It's the best movie that no one seems to have heard of!

[@shanirasor1161]

I am SO glad you covered this movie! It's easily one of my favorite films of all time. All the subtleties and implied truths are fascinating and Ryan Reynolds was near perfection!

[@TheFangirlWatches]

YES! I think that's one of the better parts of the movie - that you're never sure what's real and what's Jerry-vision.

[@WeirdoMusicLoverNaz]

I liked this movie a lot. it was a bit strange but i loved it. plus ryan reynolds and anna kendrick! ^.^

[@TheFangirlWatches]

I know! The acting was fantastic!

[@srstriker6420]

WeirdoMusicLoverNaz agree

[@Ladya-eg7yp]

Wow. That's the story of my life. However I was lucky enough to have my mom to protect me from creeps like Jerry.

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Oh no! I'm glad you had your mom to chase off the weirdos!

[@Ladya-eg7yp]

@@TheFangirlWatches AHH! Thanks so much.

[@autumnmoon198]

I made it to the end and this was intresting I now have to watch this movie.

[@TheFangirlWatches]

I know for sure it's on Starz but it is 1000000% worth a watch if you have to hunt for it.

[@tessaract7695]

I feel that, being nice is hard, I got that a lot in high school cause I was so kind, this is defiantly a good movie though! I watched it forever ago I have to watch it again

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Yes! It's so worth a re-watch!

[@queendsheena1]

I started to watch this movie a while back but got distracted and forgot. I'll definitely go back it's very interesting. Jerry is the perfect example of someone who needs to be incarcerated for life or heavily monitored in a special kind of halfway house. There's plenty of blame to go around but at the end of the day, Jerry's a danger to others due to his extreme inability to function in normal society.

[@TheFangirlWatches]

And that's what makes the question so hard to answer. Jerry willingly went to the asylum to keep his mom out of it, and then the state forced him out of there (likely due to budget cuts or wanting to free up a bed). So, yes, Jerry did the actions, but he also wouldn't have been free if not for the system letting him go.

[@dustyv8sound]

My cat talks to me, thankfully he says nice things. Its the parrot that says bad things sometimes

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

My cat hides on the stairs and tries to love me when I walk down them... some call it affection, some call it attempted murder...

[@dustyv8sound]

@@sarasunshinemt4444 Love walks in mysterious ways, especially when its a cute four legged furball

[@TheFangirlWatches]

My cat just screams until someone comes to pick him up lol

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

@@TheFangirlWatches One of my cats does that. He sounds super pitiful & almost like he's crying. Works 99% of the time so naturally he does it A LOT. My daughter calls him "The Child". When she kicks him out of her room for chewing on stuff, she drops him in my lap and says that we have joint custody and it's my weekend😏

[@DerpyUnicornPegasus]

One of my favorite movies because it’s so out there

[@khadraabeeb5007]

Omg I love your blue hair dude lol

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Thanks! It was a sample of Splat 1 wash dye!

[@khadraabeeb5007]

The Fangirl omg u welcome

[@MissMeCassie]

Just watched this and now I'm here, and I'm just really trying to understand more about his childhood

[@mynirv]

I WATCHED THIS MOVIE THINKING IT WAS GOING TO BE A NORMAL MOVIE (my mum had already started playing it before seeing any pictures... thanks mum) Still found it interesting no matter how messed up the switches were

[@becksdre3294]

Can you do a video about the new Joker movie? I’d really like to hear what you think since there’s so many people debating about it. Thanks!

[@josephortiz8162]

I loved that movie. Not many people talk about it. Take away is don’t trust a talking cat they are trouble

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Well, the talking dog may have led to trouble too, he just wasn't given the chance lol

[@Thrakus]

Anyone remember the movie of the goth girl who i think works as a vet , She want s boyfriend and has a goth doll that talks to her. Its kinda like body parts she does find boys with 1 perfect thing she likes such as there hands to try and build her self the perfect boyfriend. I think the movie was just her name.

[@ERYN__]

I enjoyed that movie. I'm going to rewatch it.

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Do it! It's on Starz right now if you have access to that 😀

[@bertkesurf]

Oh, I LOVED this movie! Very underrated but SO well done. Ryan Reynolds killed it (pardon the pun 😉)!

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Pun excused because he did blow the part away. Lol. It is a really powerful movie I coild watch it a dozen times!

[@bertkesurf]

@@TheFangirlWatches A newer movie you should check out is a John Travolta drama-thriller called The Fanatic. Very intense. It's a Redbox exclusive

[@dvid22]

I would say the Scottish cat is to blame but cannot be sure of that. honestly I want to know how he got his apartment over the bowling alley.

[@unorthodoxparadox2339]

Love the hair

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Thank you! It's a 1 wash dye from Splat but it takes forever to dry!

[@disney_pongo_love3755]

I love this movie! But it's honestly depresssing...

[@renee_is_pink]

Thats really really disturbing

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Have you seen the movie? It's so well done, it's very interesting!

[@absurdartist6346]

As a psych major I loved this movie

[@TheFangirlWatches]

It is SOOO good to pick apart!

[@absurdartist6346]

The Fangirl totally agree! I didn’t even notice that part about Fiona using lots of British slang until you mentioned it! There are really so many layers to jerry and so many questions too! Lots of room to theorize like where did his pets even come from? Are they actually his or are they strays? He probably wouldn’t be permitted to adopt an animal from the shelter because of his criminal record so where did they come from or were they in his head too?

[@rowanlambros2271]

Great video!

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Thank you Rowan!

[@Thrakus]

The End of the F***ing World is good , The first season is good 2nd one was kinda like Once Upon a Time season 7 like what happens when you try to go past a shows ending, The only great thing about season 7 was when they did terminator 2 sarah connor escape fully reacted in the first ep , yet no one did pick up on it so weird. The End of the F***ing World has a messed up boy trying to kill a girl thinking of it over and over gain planing it but never doing it leading to a great coming of age story,

[@restingsadface]

hey Megan! i'm a long time watcher and I really love your unique take on things, but i really disagree with your reading of the movie (but then again it has been a while since i've seen this movie so i probably wrong lol) i don't think Fiona was killed because Jerry thought that she wasn't perfect anymore. and i don't think the movie implied that she deserved to get murdered. i get the vibe that Fiona was just kinda shallow. just bc Fiona was shallow and then got murdered, doesn't mean that she got murdered BECAUSE she was shallow. i also feel that if Jerry was in his right state of mind he wouldn't have done any of those things. it's implied in the movie a couple of times that he's a good person. the therapist seems genuinely kind to him implying that he wasn't a 'problem child' when he was on his meds. and everyone at his workplace don't treat him as if he was a bad person they just seem to think he's weird. implying that when he was hired (and on his meds) he was a nice enough person.

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Shallow is someone very self-obsessed, and according to Fiona's brief backstory of leaving her country to follow a guy that dumped her, she is/was a very loyal, giving person if you get to her inner circle. Fiona was more unwillingly to be the bad guy and tell Jerry "no, I'm not interested." Plus there was nothing shallow or any misunderstanding about her death. The reality was that Jerry hit a deer, slit it's throat in front of her like a psychopath, and then he killed Fiona when she freaked out and ran away. Her reactions there were COMPLETELY appropriate, and even if she wasn't a good character before that, she was a real, 3 dimensional character that handled a situation poorly.

[@restingsadface]

@@TheFangirlWatches yea, i agree

[@WHAATEVEN]

I really liked this movie

[@TheFangirlWatches]

It was super interesting!

[@Dragonlove3]

Awesome

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Oooh is that a Samantha doll?

[@lamarfinesse8753]

Hey, I made it to the end!

[@TheFangirlWatches]

Awesome! Thanks so much LaMar!

[@jadepeppermint2734]

I never saw this movie i'll have to check it it seems like a awesome movie

[@TheFangirlWatches]

It is really well put together. If you have Starz it's on there right now. 😁

[@jadepeppermint2734]

@@TheFangirlWatches i better go watch it now then