MOVIE REVIEW: REFLECTION PAPER

TOUCHED WITH FIRE

"Touched With Fire" delves into bipolar disease, creative work, and the challenges of sustaining
intimacy whilst coping with mental health concerns. This movie seeks to present a neutral point
of view to bipolar disease and how individuals deal with it, capturing the fascinating highs and
terrible melancholy that accompanies.

Carla happened to be at a bookshop reading her freshly released poetry book. Considering all
of what she has accomplished, her mother  is concerned about her, Carla has a bipolar illness
and fluctuates through manic energetic peaks and devastating lows. Despite the fact that she is
on medicine, she frequently fails to consume it. Carla, obsessed with learning greater detail
about who she used to be prior to this dreadful sickness destroyed her life, goes to a psychiatric
institution to review her medical history and ends up getting hospitalized.

Marco was initially seen in his disorganized flat, where he had arranged all of his books and
papers into distinct heaps. His dad appears taken aback to learn that his son has left his job and
plans to survive on McDonald's ketchup and Starbucks milk till the final days of the world.
These rants imply that he is off his medicines and in desperate need of assistance. He ended up
in the same psychiatric facility as Carla, and they both undergo group therapy sessions
alongside.

They encountered each other beginning at a hospital after being admitted shortly after a manic
episode. They can't sleep therefore they spend the early hours alongside one another, falling in
love. However a supervisor sets them apart, worried that they are driving each other towards
more intense psychological depths. "You're not healthy for each other," she says. Nevertheless,
after being released into the care of their guardians, they're able to find a way to connect with
one another.

They established a you-and-me-versus-the-world mentality and start on a mind trip driven by

Marco's science-fiction-worthy perception of the mysterious correlations between each and
every thing. They create an insurmountable dream that depicts them as displaced supernatural
creatures and the potential parents of an unborn miraculous kid.

The manic phase of a bipolar cycle frequently provides a sensation of omnipotence and
boundless possibilities, which may be so thrilling that patients frequently cease using the
medication they are taking. "Touched With Fire" only briefly addresses the depressed phase,
during which a patient might become catatonic and suicidal.