Originally Posted by moonlily:
“Really? because I see most of them as completely self aware and spoilt as hell- shallow beyond belief.
Funny how we see them so differently.
People with mental illness, as you and I know, are tormented to different degrees- these selfish attention seekers are tormentors.”
I'm probably not explaining it well because it's kind of difficult to explain what i mean. I don't mean it to be a direct and equal comparison. I'm basically trying to say i appreciate the rawness of this season and this group rather than holding back because of the cameras or because people outside might complain.
In my experiences being around mental health and mental hospitals, yeah... the people in there are tormented and broken in their own ways relatively but they aren't all just sitting in a corner screaming or whatever. These people do have individual personalities and stories much like any other person all the same. Sometimes they're in there simply because they don't fit in what society judges to be normal. Anyway, what i feel around these groups of people is that rawness, not existing in a small little box shaped and formed by all of society's rules and regulations which to me and for me is quite a refreshing change from what's felt under the majority power of society and what's dictated by it's hand.
It's that rawness that i'm speaking of. An indistinct rawness not an equally or direct comparison just "a rawness" something like the rawness i found in aforementioned experiences that i'm complimenting this group and this season on. Having nothing to do with who they are or their personalities, etc.
In this specific case or context the cameras represent society and it's moral judgements and what is deemed normal and acceptable , and then you have these houseguests not giving an F just being raw and true to what it is they're doing in this moment in time, on their journey. I can appreciate that for better or worse even if it's ugly and i don't like it or agree with it at times.
[Which is what i mean by they found raw and wild characters this season. Wild as in being outside of the norms of society. Outlaw -ish but more in thought]