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The movie, which premiered in the past week at the South by
Southwest film festival in Austin and stars Katie Holmes and
Luke Kirby, tells the story of a manic-depressive man and woman
who are made for each other and destructive together.
Dalio said there have been noble efforts to portray mental
illness on film from those without firsthand knowledge and said
he wanted to tell the inside story of what it is like to live
with the disease.
"If only you could know what it is like, I think you would look
at people differently who have it," Dalio said at a screening in
the Texas capital over the weekend.
The movie follows Carla, played by Holmes, and Marco, played by
Kirby, as they lapse into mania and are committed to a
psychiatric hospital. The two are drawn to each other. As their
relationship intensifies, so does their mania.
In a relationship with peaks and valleys brought on by mental
illness, the two share humor, tenderness and bewildering acts
that include taking a subcompact car into a fast-flowing river.
The characters question whether they will lose themselves and
the fire within them if they try to control their mental illness
through medication and therapy.
"I feel way more creative now than when I was manic because when
I went completely manic, it was just totally scattered and it
made no sense," Dalio said.
"You have to create a tragedy so that people don’t live it," he
said.
No national release date has yet been set for the film, which
includes Spike Lee as an executive producer.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)
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