boy interrupted
about a year ago i watched a documentary which was moving, raw and perfect, boy interrupted .
boy interrupted (2009) | a documentary about the suicide in 2005 of evan perry, a 15 - year - old boy from new york .
boy interrupted (2009) | a documentary about the suicide in 2005 of evan perry, a 15 - year - old boy from new york. : documentaries
boy interrupted is a remarkable, deeply unsettling documentary about the life of evan perry, an uncommonly bright, talented boy from new york who committed suicide at age 15 .
boy interrupted offers visual correlatives for dana' s memories, juxtaposing snapshots of the sweet child with those of the scary one .
boy interrupted is a movie starring evan scott perry, dana heinz perry, and hart perry. boy interrupted looks at the life of evan perry a 15 - year - old boy from new york who committed suicide in 2005. the film made by his parents dana and hart examines how evan' s bipolar... see full summary »
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dana perry and her son evan scott perry, at age 3, are seen in the hbo documentary
boy interrupted ,
airing monday at 9 p. m .
a teenage boy transcends reality while reading his favourite comic book... .
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boy interrupted looks at the life of evan perry a 15 - year - old boy from new york who committed suicide in 2005. the film made by his parents dana and hart examines how evan' s bipolar disorder and depression affected his life and the life of his family .
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perhaps the title of the hbo documentary by director dana perry might have been called a family interrupted. for every completed suicide, one finds a trail of other casualties made up of everyone who ever touched or was touched by that individual. this is the lesson and the legacy captured so artfully and movingly in boy interrupted .
what' s not up for debate: the rare nature of the boy' s illness .
finally, there' s the choice of title of the film, which is problematic. girl, interrupted was a hollywood movie about the institutionalizing of a teen girl for behaving badly, and questions whether there was anything really wrong with her. yet the whole point of boy interrupted is that there really was something wrong with evan. his psychiatrist even gives the impression at one point that evan' s suicide was inevitable. so there' s no parallel with girl, interrupted .
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jimmy fowlie (writer / actor) developed the concept for “go - ­go boy interrupted” from his time as a go­ - go dancer in la. he was inspired to create his own sketch show at the groundlings theater, where he regularly performs .
an award - winning comedy that follows go - go boy danny as he ages out of his
career
.
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for more videos, check out urltoken dana perry' s documentary
boy interrupted
will premiere at this year' s sundance film festival. this film is about her son evan, who suffered from bipolar disease and committed suicide at age 15. produced by lauren goode & jeff bush .
review - girl, interrupted by susanna kaysen vintage books, 1993 review by christian perring, ph. d. nov 30th 1999 (volume 3, issue 48 )
boy interrupted debuts on hbo on monday, august 3 with rebroadcasts on august 5, 9, 11, 15 and 21. it plays on hbo2 on august 6, 10, 18, 22 and 27. also available on dvd by august 6 and hbo on demand through the end of august .
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handsome, intelligent and charming, evan perry — without the benefit of “boy interrupted” — would be a complete mystery: a kid with everything kills himself? but the purpose of the perrys’ film is to strip away some of that mystery, reveal the agony such families go through and the vigilance needed to protect their most vulnerable members from themselves .
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when authenticity, generosity, traumatic memory, recorded history, and creativity collide, an effective documentary such as boy interrupted emerges. the musical score strikes notes that enhance the mood of this film that masterfully frames the devastated faces of evan' s family and friends and makes sure we will not forget him and the health - care enigma and challenge he represents .
mournful, pained and beautifully put together, “boy interrupted” is about a mentally ill 15 - year - old who committed suicide, and the pic could only have been made by his parents. docu is, in fact, such an immersion in pain that had anyone other than dana and hart perry cut this elegiac little gem, those filmmakers would be [ … ]
rob bingham lived the fantasy life of a literary bad boy: a charismatic, arrogant, fabulously wealthy wildchild who died just before the publication of his much - anticipated first novel .
award - winning comedy that follows go - go boy danny as he ages out of his
career
. season 2 he tries porn, dating, and listening to npr !
when i first moved to la, i worked as a go - go dancer and there were so many hilarious stories that i always wanted to write about them! a year ago, i filmed 7 sketches that followed the story of a go - go boy who turned 30 and then got fired from the club he worked at. i called it
go - go boy interrupted .
it was part of a live show i was doing at the groundlings in los angeles. some friends encouraged me to put it online, and so i released it as a weekly web series last october .
the film is powerful even though it offers more questions than answers, as it examines not just one precious, joyful and tragic life, but many lives across three generations - - artists and sculptors, psychiatrists and milieu therapists, teachers and students. like any exceptional film - - fictional narrative or documentary, released theatrically or on television (where hbo continues to distinguish itself) - - boy interrupted captures a bit of magic .
today, hbo airs
boy, interrupted ,
a documentary which tells the story of a young man' s experience with mental illness and his mother' s struggle to provide him with the support he needs. if you happen to watch it, i' d love to hear what you think (please comment below). if you' re interested in finding out more, check out this article in the huffington post .
even as boy interrupted documents her forgetting, it works against the very process, at least to an extent. even as it laments what can' t be seen or understood, it also exposes the trouble that comes from forgetting, repressing, and not seeing. if its memories of evan are selective, its point is resonant: no matter our own fears ,
scary souls
must be confronted, and in some profound way, embraced .
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( 1) this interrupted miracle is an illustration of the way god is dealing with israel and the gentiles. perhaps i am allegorizing the text, but consider with me how the experience of jairus and the woman parallels that of the jews and the gentiles .
mournful, pained and beautifully put together, “boy interrupted” is about a mentally ill 15 - year - old who committed suicide, and the pic could only have been made by his parents. docu is, in fact, such an immersion in pain that had anyone other than dana and hart perry cut this elegiac little gem, those filmmakers would be accused of grief exploitation. hbo has the film, and that’s probably best: perhaps families will watch together and share a good cry .
i truthfully never pictured it doing as well as it did. the show was featured on the advocate magazine' s
hot list ,
huffington post, la weekly, and more! we (the director jordan black and i) ended up signing a shopping agreement with a production company, and with their agent, we took out
go - go boy interrupted
to tv networks to try and sell it as a tv show. we went to hbo, showtime, ifc, and bravo just to name a few !
the film was made by the boy' s parents, director dana perry and cinematographer hart perry. it was made for hbo documentary films, being shown on tv and released on dvd. it was also shown at sundance in january 2009 .
there are actually two miracles described in our text, which are carefully intertwined. in reality, the miracle of the healing of jairus’ daughter is interrupted by the healing of the woman with the hemorrhage. for a short time, it appears that this healing of the woman has cost the life of jairus’ daughter .
when the boy stepped on the scale wednesday, the number flashed a tiny victory: 67 pounds, 9 ounces. for that rare moment, the father didn' t feel like he was failing his oldest son. landon jones had gained five ounces .
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this image suggests what the perrys were up against, that no matter how they tried to distract, intervene or communicate with evan, he was set on a course that had nothing to do with them. though this course is briefly altered - - evan is successfully treated at a connecticut facility with lithium and therapy, develops friendships, attracts girls (
though ,
dana says ,
he' s never really interested in them
), and appears in footage smiling and joking - - boy interrupted makes the case that it is, in the end, apparently inevitable .
the film depicted the downward spiral of a mentally ill 15 year old boy who eventually commits suicide. unlike most illness’s which are hidden away the documentary had a very open, heavily resourced production. the true peculiarity about the actual production was who directed the film, the mother .
the boy referred to in the title of this sobering documentary is the son of the film' s director and its cinematographer (hart perry), who suffered from a severe and intractable bipolar depression and committed suicide when he was 15 years old. his name was evan scott perry .
landon' s teacher, meanwhile, has offered to let the sixth - grader keep a water bottle on his desk, even agreeing to use hand signals to quietly remind the boy to sip. but when his father gave him a bottle for the classroom, landon stashed it in his locker, untouched .
boy interrupted is a wrenching profile of a family torn apart. dana and hart perry share the intensely personal story of every parent’s worst nightmare: the death of a child by suicide. as professional filmmakers, they were accustomed to making extensive personal films and videos of the family, but never suspected that their footage of son evan – taken from the moment of his birth throughout childhood and adolescence – would end up becoming the primary source material for this moving account. casual and innocuous before his death, the home movies provide a visual record of evan’s life, and help create an intimate portrait of this vibrant, troubled young man, supplemented by interviews with family, friends, doctors and teachers .
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in the documentary we see clips from perry’s childhood, ones where he at young age of 5 displays very dark thoughts, most scary was a photo dana perry took while having a talk with evan about his thoughts about killing himself, in the photo you see a very young boy showing his mother the way he would hang himself. disturbing, utterly intense .
the reason that the director and i decided to do a kickstarter is because the first season, although it was a total blast, no one got paid. the few crew members who did, were paid way under their normal rate. things like paying the actors, director, and crew are essential! not only because they' re talented and they deserve it, but because they' re all working in the industry, so time working on go go boy interrupted means times away from better paying jobs. the money will also go to renting locations, renting lighting and sound equipment, food for the cast and crew. also, certain jobs like editors and music composers are really costly. those two positions will be $ 17, 000 alone. if we didn' t pay our crew, season 2 wouldn' t be possible .
enrolled in a new school last year as a boy where only the staff knew otherwise, the nine - year - old passed without a hitch in his wardrobe of nike trainers and t - shirts, paired with a crew cut, boyish build, and aggressive basketball moves at recess. (to keep his secret, the names of the boy and his parents have been changed .) but the days when the only outward markers of gender lie in haircuts, clothes, and personality only last so long. deep inside marty' s brain, a time bomb known as the hypothalamus waited to stage a hormone - armed mutiny. breasts would sprout. hips would widen. the uterus would shed blood on a monthly basis. marty didn' t want any of it .
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perry takes a long time establishing evan’s personality and the good qualities that never quite defined the boy well enough. (his illness defined him as different — and made him more depressed .) it doesn’t take very long before the viewer is aware the perrys had to make the film in order to exorcise their demons. they know logically they’re not to blame, but emotional absolution is harder to achieve .
these people had all this personal and dark circumstances filmed during evan’s life it seemed almost like they had a plan, but this is a silly thought because there is no way you can judge the actions of parents who tried very hard to get this boy help. after watching and reading more about the documentary i found out the parents created the film to help themselves heal and to find some closure .
so when the bud appeared, his bay area parents hustled him to an appointment with an endocrinologist at children' s hospital and research center oakland, who said the bud might progress no further and puberty could still be a few years off, his parents recall. they were temporarily relieved. marty treated the bump as a boy would  poking at it at the dinner table, feeling it through his button - down shirts. waiting .
implicit in boy interrupted is just how daunting - - and crucial - - issues of health - care reform are. the film is testimony to so much we do not know, but is also a revelation in depicting the effectiveness of the patience and skill involved in high - quality care where we have a fighting chance to know and better treat patients. it is not a matter of politics, but a choice of life over death and health over disease and dysfunction. we see how bipolar disorder can distort perceptions, so too does partisan politics that smears what is the right of every american. canada is not a bad word and a social democracy in which every person has equal access to quality health - care should not be a frightening proposition. we lag behind other compassionate nations in education, health - care, science, and too often refuse to embrace the soothsayers, our great american dreamers, our own home - grown filmmakers and other artists who have the wonderful audacity to show us their truths .
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because director dana perry and her cinematographer husband, hart, are filmmakers, the life of their first child together, evan, wasn’t just recorded — it was recorded well. and they captured more than most parents might — even those moments in which evan seems a little “off, ” as dana perry says. even as a young boy, evan had a matter - of - fact way of talking about death, and there were even instances of acting out suicide. depression plagued him all his life, as did a bipolar condition that demanded medication .
our first child, a boy, had died unexpectedly (crib death) in the middle of the night. you can imagine our uneasiness when our next child, beth, became ill during the night. when her eyes began to roll back in her head we set out for the hospital. i had little interest in what the speed limit was that night, nor did i stop for traffic lights. in my mind, time was of the essence. the sooner we could get beth to the hospital, the better. any delay, at that moment, seemed to endanger her life .
variety noted that because of his parents' occupations, they did a good job in recording his life, and produced an
elegiac little gem
. the philadelphia inquirer called it a
remarkable, deeply unsettling documentary
, scoring it 3 / 4 stars. [ 2 ] the movie blog criticised the production quality, but found that the film still
communicated effectively and with a lot of emotion
. si live suggested that the boy' s story perhaps did not merit a documentary, but it was
valuable viewing
in that it would educate people a little about mental illness. — source
there are several aspects of the film that raise concerns. most obviously, even by the time of the funeral evan' s parents had decided to do something with it, because they asked friends to film it, despite the fact that his suicide note said he wanted a private funeral, and that he didn' t want people from his school to know how he died. it' s clear that filmmaking is in their blood, and is central to their own way of dealing with the world. further, it' s not so clear that the wishes of a depressed boy who killed himself should be paramount; funerals are for those still living .
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jairus had the implied promise of the lord jesus to come to his house and to heal (or raise) his daughter. along comes a woman, when jesus is in the process of dealing with jairus, and “steals” a blessing from god. in the process of her doing so, there is an agonizing delay, one which appears to be at the expense of jairus. for at least a short time it would seem (or so it did to those who reported the girl’s death to jairus) that the woman’s blessing cost the daughter of jairus her life. god seems to have been unnecessarily delayed, so that the woman is blessed at the expense of the ruler of the synagogue. and, worse yet, the woman was declared unclean by the law, so that she would have been thought to have had no right to approach or touch him. here is jairus, an apparently righteous, devout, and influential jewish leader, whose “blessing” is interrupted by an unclean woman, 162 whose healing was undeserved, on several counts .
what was going wrong with her life? she tells us she decided she did not want to go onto college, and she slept with her high school english teacher. a couple of years earlier, she took an overdose and had to have her stomach pumped. but apart from that we learn almost nothing about her family, friends, or her past. she mentions that one boy liked her so much that he remained in contact with her even while she was in hospital; on one of her visits to him on leave from the hospital, he proposed to her, and she accepted. this comes as a total surprise to the reader. she mentions that the marriage did not last, and that she has since had a number of lovers. she decided to have no children. she wanted to be a writer, and she succeeded .
aaaand we’re back. after a week off the airwaves, modern family returned last night true to form, with all three families making kooky, separate tracks over to manny’s birthday dinner, while the birthday boy himself dealt with an early - life crisis. the agitation came from a joke jay dropped about manny’s premature maturity, a riff so worn - out by now, i was happy to see the kid react to a dig at it. yes, manny, it is strange that you drink espresso and aspire to look like al capone! investigate! and so he did, or at least tried to, attempting all the things childish kids apparently do: ride a skateboard, float in a pool, mix different kinds of soda together (am i the only one who missed this particular rite of passage ?), all with a very adult checklist sensibility .
his parents called children' s because now, due to the efforts of a small but growing number of doctors around the world, something actually could be done about emerging puberty. the endocrinologist agreed that mother nature was revving up, preparing to take marty the way of trainer bras, tampax, and, as his parents and doctors predicted, increasing distress as his body developed into a sex that to him seemed a cruel trick of birth. the changes would make living as a boy impossible in the present, and he' d potentially face scarring surgery to remove unwanted breasts down the road. what' s more, the upsurge in estrogen would slow and stop his growth, making it harder for him to ever pass as a male. of course, that' s if marty would end up living as a man. as boyish as marty is, no one could know for sure .
still, dana says, he expressed himself in
lots of songs
that were
very sophisticated .
she goes on ,
he did not have a britney spears phase .
instead ,
he went straight to bob dylan, neil young, and nirvana .
here again, the film offers an alarming contrast: while nine - year - old evan plays guitar and sings about cutting himself in the neck (
i' m depressed, nothing less, curious, furious, / so somebody kill me please
), his younger brother michael (who is not interviewed fro the film), plays on the floor beside him. the little boy rolls around with a bucket, tipping in and out of the scene. finally, he walks into the frame, standing directly in front of evan, and leans his body into him. evan completes his song, barely acknowledging michael' s presence .
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i must admit at the outset that my burden in reviewing and analyzing a film has seldom felt quite so heavy. *
evan' s loved ones have no recourse but to cope imperfectly, admitting they will never be the same. but, too often, the choice of those suffering with intractable affective disorders (spalding gray, primo levi, and seung - hui cho come to mind) including major depressions, bipolar depressions, and bipolar disorder (sometimes presenting with psychotic features) choose suicide because extreme symptoms such as hopelessness, pointlessness, a gross lack of judgment, impulsivity, distorted perceptions, alienation, and excruciating despair are simply too overwhelming to endure .
evan was as charming as he was exasperating, which are the hallmark signs and the paradoxes one experiences in dealing with bipolar individuals. he could be loving and extremely affectionate - - often curling up in his mother' s loving arms - - only to turn around and frighten his devoted family and even his psychiatrist who remarks ,
he was the scariest kid i ever saw in my life .
his teachers marveled at his zest for life and his obsession with death contending with suicide attempts, one involving climbing to the roof of p. s. 11 in manhattan and threatening to jump. evan made numerous suicidal gestures and some homicidal threats. his parents would move heaven and earth in their search for answers and treatment that might save his life .
evan loved bob dylan at an early age singing in a similar, quirky style marked by pathos and less - than - perfect pitch. he wrote lyrics and poetry that rivaled the moodiness of the late, kurt cobain, another kindred spirit. he would have run ins with the police and private sessions with a child psychiatrist; receive a misdiagnosis of depression and go on prozac; be hospitalized at a the private facility four winds where he was diagnosed with bipolar depression, take drugs such as depakote and later, lithium, a slightly less sedative, mood stabilizer .
all were inadequate treatments with side effects and other cracks through which to fall. finally, through a treatment modality known as
milieu therapy ,
exemplified by wellspring in bethlehem, ct, which evan' s father describes as an
expensive alternative ,
he flourished. there, evan learned that actions have consequences and that boundaries are crucial for order and productivity. inner demons were exorcised by the healing properties of structure, assignments, and meaningful activities in which social, interpersonal, and therapeutic alliances with seasoned, caring professionals blossomed. this experience - - which few families can afford financially and many others may never hear of - - added years to evan' s life and allowed him to be
mainstreamed
and enter york prep where he was less precocious - - having formerly existed in the world of old souls - - and became more open to peers .
the perry family has devoted itself to creating art (evan' s parents have directed and produced many documentaries; his grandmother, beatrice, a sculptor also engaged an artist / friend to come to germantown, ny, from spain to create a sculpture than adorns the grave of her son, scott, in a creative process documented in the rest is silence by hart perry). the family and their friends offer the audience a gift by testifying so candidly about evan' s life, which continues to puzzle and haunt them .
* in additional to my membership in the women film critics circle and being able to write about film - - an art form that never ceases to enthrall me - - on the huffington post, critical women on film, and other sites and publications, i am also a member of the american association for psychoanalysis in clinical social work, a fellow of the new york state society of clinical social work, and maintain a psychotherapy practice in nyc. my roots, however, can be traced to internships in in - patient psychiatry at metropolitan hospital center, working with the chronically mentally ill in acute phases of illness, and at vvlp, working with vietnam war veterans .
i spent 16 years in community and clinic - based psychiatry at st. luke' s - roosevelt hospital center privileged to work with gifted and dedicated clinical social workers, nurse practitioners, creative arts therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists treating the charming, exasperating, lovable, and irascible individuals diagnosed with and often ravaged by major depressive, bipolar, and schizophrenic disorders. i have witnessed and participated in the treatment of affective and psychotic disorders that were extraordinarily well managed, grossly mismanaged, and everything in between learning that a single clinician, no matter how experienced, cannot possibly successfully treat certain, special patients without a collaborating psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatrist and in some cases, an entire treatment team, day program, milieu therapy, and / or relationships with patients' significant others .
i feel a duty to comment, at least in this footnote, not just on this film' s effectiveness as art, but on the social policies it might inform .
this film is released at a moment when health - and mental - health care is at a crossroads. just as education is no bargain (nor should we expect it to be) and remains public, government - funded at local, state, and federal levels, so too should our health - care system, which involves untangling the web of insurance companies and their often unfair practices, which have exploited individuals and made hospitals, clinics, and even some private practices operate more like poorly run factories rather than the caring, professional entities they ought to be .
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would you look at me differently if my son had died of cancer? people come to the conclusion: it must be the parents' fault. we are no different than anybody else. we did not torture our child. honestly, i' m just a regular person. it happened to my family, to my mother in law' s family. i go to the jed foundation and i see a thousand mothers who this has happened to, rooms full of survivors. this problem crosses geography, class - - and it is that much worse for people who are not educated, wealthy, and who are not flexible in their jobs, who do not have access to resources .
the question is not, did you do everything you could. the question is, where do you get the information. as advocates for a mentally ill child, hart (dana' s husband and production partner) and i were dedicated. but, what do i do, and how do i get the information? there' s no manual. when evan was first diagnosed as bipolar in 2000, i found one book. today, you' ll see shelf after shelf. it' s the new add. you see it on the cover of newsweek, a series in the new york times. we are now comfortable medicating our kids, maybe too comfortable. we are finding out, 50% of college students have difficulties. and we are lucky. the tens of thousands of dollars we spent was worth it. horrible as our experience was, we could pay for wellspring where evan was in a class with two people and it cost $ 500 / day. he flourished and came to life. but no one can afford that. the question is, where are the resources? now there are more. we did everything we could think of .
i' ve battled depression but i' ve never experienced an ongoing wish to die. i can only appreciate it by observation. martine, hart' s brother' s fiancé, says observing scott, he got into a hole and it is completely consuming. combine that with a kid' s all - consuming self - consciousness and now distinguish the symptoms of bipolarity from the normal problems of a teenager or young adult - - they are already bipolar, lacking in judgment - - combine that with chemical imbalance, you' ve got extremes that are already there magnified to unbearable extremes. so where is the line between normal and mentally ill? do all kids rage for hours and have to be sat on? the illness is powerful and you have to keep treating it .
q: did you ever say to yourself, this is a phase? he will grow out of it .
with evan, even at age 4 or 5 it was clear. we found out, bipolar people are very clever. he learned to tell us what we wanted to hear. if he said anything, if he displayed dangerous behavior, it was known in our family he would be hospitalized. he was very clever in hiding it. doctors told us we could keep him alive, but he would never be cured. we wondered, what are we going to do when he is out of our jurisdiction? we often talked about how we might outlive him. at the time evan died we weren' t thinking suicide anymore. he was doing well in school; he was popular. most shocking to me was when he did it. we weren' t expecting it .
q: the film shows evan from the time of his birth. take me through the stages of making this film .
we never worked with hbo before. sheila nevins and nancy abraham offered good editorial and structural advice and emotional support. they could appreciate what i was trying to do: this is the mother' s lament .
this is a movie one wishes one did not have to make. maybe it will break down walls, and stigmas about talking openly about mental illness, to free people to do so without shame. the film asks a lot of questions in a public fashion and stirs up discussion about why we as a society are ashamed about mental illness. educating people is a real challenge. and, education and treatment is the only suicide prevention. let' s get the word out. we set up a website: urltoken
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this documentary is extremely moving and sad. it really opened my eyes to the disease of depression. suicide isn' t always
selfish
in their eyes. don' t judge my statement without seeing this first. some people really are born with clinical depression and need to be medicated to survive. i' m not one of these people, but i dated someone who was clinically depressed. it drove me bonkers, but in midst of striving to understand, i stumbled across this amazing and sad documentary. it did not save my relationship, but it sure helped me understand depression a lot more. i cannot recommend this more... just bring your tissues .
this is a cold hard truth and a look into what mental illness can do to family and friends. i first saw this documentary on hbo when it came out it struck my interest because my wife and son both suffer from bipolar disorder. this really opened my eyes to the concerns that i should have had and now harber. my son is now the age of evan how lost the battle and his life to this illness, so if anything good can come out of such a tragic loss it would be that this documentary has helped me better understand what can happen and try everything in my power as a father and a friend to my wife. i thank you for this opportunity to learn from your experiences, my best wishes to the perry family and friends .
received the video yesterday (3 / 26) and had a chance to watch it last night. i found it to be most helpful in gaining a greater understanding of how bipolar disorder cannot only impact the individual, but the entire family too. i would highly recommend this to anyone wanting to gain a greater understanding of this disorder as well as how it can change lives as well. i give evan' s family a great deal of credit for their willingness to speak out about this disorder. i am certain many will benefit them from their willingness to their story .
if you hope to understand the world of bi - polar disorder, this is the film to watch. just the fact that the parents were willing to bring the cameras into their personal and tragic story provides a unique look at the impact of bi - polar disorder on a young person and their family. (make sure you have some tissues handy. )
documentary about the despair of parents that don' t know how to help their son. not for the faint of heart .
i thought the movie was very good. living with bipolar and a son who has it, it shows the confusion and the thoughts that are there o lot of the time. it is easy to say oh you should have done this or that but the impulses of the illness are strong and you don' t really realize how sick you are. i have been told that i get a different look about me and as my son gets a look and his anger is so strong... but so is the love when he is loving life. . i have survived suicide attempts in the past but i do believe the illness will possibly kill me or my son one day. while i know it hurts family and friends my wish is that these people can see that finally their loved one is not in such confusing turmoil and emotional pain anymore. god bless all the people that deal with this illness or any mental illness and their loved ones.
boy interrupted is a 2009 documentary feature film about the suicide in 2005 of evan perry , a 15-year-old boy from new york . the title references the best-selling memoir girl , interrupted , also about mental illness . 
boy interrupted is a 2009 documentary feature film about the suicide in 2005 of evan perry, a 15-year-old boy from new york. the title references the best-selling memoir girl, interrupted, also about mental illness.
boy interrupted is a 2009 documentary feature film about the suicide in 2005 of evan perry, a 15-year-old boy from new york. the title references the best-selling memoir girl, interrupted, also about mental illness.