| I guess it's been seven years now since my dad was hospitalized at one time with severe paranoia. So much of the film was familiar to me-Grace's torment from the disease, the living nightmare, the urgency, and the brother's reactions of love, patience to helplessness and frustration. At one point I was convinced that everyone was out to frame my father. Their reality is so finely tuned and real within that framework. You and your cast portrayed such a realistic response.
The seed I take from your film and will nurture is the production's portrayal of a wonderfully vibrant, interesting, loving, strong woman that came out…despite (because of?) the illness. It's been a battle for our family to talk about his psychosis, to allow others to know, to fight the stigma attached. I'm thankful for your portrayal of Grace. She is wonderful. My father is too.
I celebrate the grace within the broken situation my father and I experienced. There really is something beautiful and freeing and close-to-understanding-God in mental illness. Your movie is brilliant
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