Pigbelly Review of The Scribbler

The Scribbler (I) (2014)

Terrible, melodramatic & romanticized misunderstanding of mental illness

[2/10 · 5 November 2014]

I'm at a loss for words for how bad this is. A terrible injustice to anyone with a mental illness as the writer had absolutely no understanding of mental illness, psychology, psychiatric institutions, mental health therapy or medicine. This film is idiotic and the silly romanticizing and misunderstanding of Disassociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) just makes it all the more painful to watch. The sexualizing of its mentally ill protagonist shows that this is some lurid attempt at cashing in on teen angst and rebellion while the teen film resurgence, brought on by Twilight and its distasteful ilk, is still viably profitable. This is a base, sickening teen- exploitation film. I think there may be a new exploitation category now with films like this, Maze Runner and Battle Royale - teen- exploitation.