John Y. Brown, III: Silver Linings Playbook

Watching Silver Linings Playbook.

Albert Camus once wrote that fiction is a lie through which we tell the truth.

This movie is a story that tenderly and impeccably reveals the truth about life and the world we live in. All of us.

It’s supposed to be a brilliantly authentic and deadpan depiction of the world within the world of those laboring under the weight of mental illness. But it’s really not.

Silver Linings Playbook seems to me to be something more real and less mysterious. About finding extraordinary moments amid the utterly banality of life made possible by those who find ways to cope most graciously with a world insanely obsessed with the delusion of sanity.