Welcome to Me (2014)

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   icheckmoviesaccount

   I don't know why Netflix calls this a "goofball comedy". It's more like a modern twist on The King of Comedy. 8 years 3 months ago
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   Reira-chan

   I don't know even how I feel about this movie.
   It sure was funny in its kooky way. 8 years 11 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Personally, it seems like a mistake to call Welcome to Me a comedy just because Kristen Wiig is in it. It smacks of the absurd and can be taken as satire, but the core of the story is actually pretty heavy. At its "funniest", it is at best cringe-worthy and troubling. Wiig plays a woman with mental health issues who wins a massive amount on the lottery and, in an unmedicated state, decides to blow it on her own television show. Her take on "Oprah" is essentially therapy on screen, pure emotional exhibitionism, the kind of train wreck television that tends to become a hit in the Reality TV era. In that sense, it satirizes television's exploitative relationship with reality, and people's toxic need to define themselves through its lens. But it's really more of a portrait of mental illness gone unchecked, and your appreciation of it may depend on your familiarity with some of the issues. I met a woman with bipolar disorder in the context of an oral presentation competition who came off exactly as Wiig does here, strikingly so, and the film explores the self-centeredness related to mental illness, which may be at least in part created by the therapy process. But it's also a film about compassion, and even the more mercenary characters in the film let themselves be moved in ths way. Plus, really great cast, I couldn't ALL these people were in such an obscure little film. 3 years 8 months ago

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