Stigmas In Call Me Crazy

Films that portray characters with a mental illness often also portray them in accordance to the stigmas that surround these various disorders. Stigma is often considered to be a negative stereotype, where one will judge another on a characteristic ("Stigma and Discrimination - Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division"). One film that highlights an overt expression of multitude of stigmas towards mental illness is; Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (CMC), which has five sub-films within the main film. This movie highlights five individuals who undertake their personal journey to comprehend and come to terms with their mental illness or someone else’s mental illness, while dealing with the stigmas of these disorders and overcoming them.
The main film is made in 2013 and it is assumed that these sub-films are occurring during this year for the most part. In the first sub-film, the character of Lucy is introduced in the law library of her school studying for a class, but primarily her film/life is set in an in-patient institution. Lucy spends quite some time in this institution, though it is unknown for how long, where she meets a gentleman, Bruce, who helps her cope with being there and gives her tools to work with when he leaves. Bruce shows her the labyrinth, what she uses later on to arrive at the decision to go back to law school, this is shown in the fifth sub-film. The second sub-film highlights a daughter, Grace, who is growing up with a mother, Robin, who has bipolar disorder. The sub-film starts off with Grace being a young child and then ending with her being a high school senior. The first instance the audience sees Grace and Robin is in a store where they are buying products, then it transitions to their home where Grace is a little bit older where she is making tea for her mom. There is a progression of Grace and Robin’s life in their house until one can assume it is present day. Where Robin and Grace’s friends pick up Grace from school, then they have a day of shopping to pick out an outfit to meet Ryan Gosling, then they are at a park where Grace talks to her mom/to herself and it shows both of them in a waiting room for Robin to go into an in-patient clinic. The sub-film ends with Grace writing an essay to a college saying her mom is her hero. There is a connection between the first sub-film and the third sub-film by the way of highlighting Allison’s journey home and seeing her sister, Lucy, for the first time since Lucy went into the institution. Allison teases her boyfriend on the journey back to her parent’s place in