![]() Words on Bathroom Walls is in select cinemas from 6 November. It makes the film look shallow, which is a shame, because serious thought has gone into conveying how terrifying it must be for people like Adam living with the condition. Here, the script disappointingly goes into full-on high-school movie mode, giving us the usual teenage milestones – first kiss, prom night, parent troubles – all with a contrived schizophrenia spin. When he is transferred to a new school, Adam keeps his schizophrenia a secret, even from the girl he fancies, Maya (Taylor Russell). ![]() Friends won’t have anything to do with him. At home, Adam’s stepdad Paul (Walton Goggins) hides the kitchen knives and tiptoes around. Some might find these characters quirky or obvious, but the incessant noise in his head is effectively done. When he is very unwell, he hallucinates a scary horror-movie voice: a sinister growl that tells him to do things that will hurt him and endanger others. There’s incense-wafting hippy chick Rebecca (AnnaSophia Robb), horny teenager Joaquin (Devon Bostick) and the Bodyguard (Lobo Sebastian), a baseball-bat-wielding thug who shows up if Adam is feeling emotionally vulnerable. ![]() For months Adam has been hearing voices, represented on screen as a trio of characters. ![]() Charlie Plummer gives a nicely balanced performance as Adam, a cooking-obsessed kid in his senior year at high school who is diagnosed with schizophrenia after a psychotic episode in chemistry class. ![]()
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