Great movie. Bruce Willis as a hero time-traveler with a touch of schizoaffective disorder who can save the world, if he can distinguish what's crazy and what's not. The best line comes from Madeleine Stowe as a psychiatrist: "I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith."
How can you say what's crazy and what's inspirational? The prophets would all be classified as crazy today. What if someone came to save the world and we stuck them in a straitjacket? The "mentally ill" have sensitive brain circuitry that seems to open windows that are closed for most people. In ancient times the mentally ill were shamans, or visionaries. What was Joseph Smith? What if we listened to the visions and considered they may offer guideposts in a world which is often times too mired in realism, routine, drudgery and dispassion. We are automatons without the fireworks of the mentally ill.
I've walked in Heaven, I've been to the future, I've brought back answers. Will I be thought crazy for trying to lead us to a better place? Will I be banished because I dispute organized religion?
"Cassandra, in Greek legend, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it."
That's the problem. Will I have wasted my life if no one believes me?
See the visions and the path to heaven in my book, Through the Open Door: A Bipolar Attorney Talks Mania, Recovery, and Heaven on Earth. Amazon
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