The Trouble with Mr Doodle

We were lucky enough to see the film recently. Sam's story was beautifully told. Whilst it was so sad to see what he went through it was ultimately so wonderful to see the power of love and how the people around him carried him through to where he is now. We can see from the film that Sam is such a wonderfully talented artist but also a genuinely lovely and humble person. The film explores Sam and his character beautfully and the viewer gets an intimate insight to his life before and after his hospital stay. The film was beautifully shot and put together. Well done to the film makers. We found it captivating.

The documentary covers the rise to fame of Sam Cox aka Mr Doodle, who is best known for his exploits in Doodling a Kent mansion inside and out which was internationally televised a few years ago.

The film takes you into the mind of Mr Doodle, how the character and his art evolved, his rise to fame in the art industry and making Sam one of the most successful young artists in the world.

The story takes a rather dark turn where being Mr Doodle completely consumes Sam, in a way that I can only compare to a supervillain from a Marvel movie, the sometimes haunting and tearful path even has a few funny moments, it's not a light watch and is as much about the psychology of Mr Doodle as it is the art. I'm not a regular documentary viewer but this one had me hooked.

I had the privilege of watching The Trouble With Mr Doodle today, and it was an insightful, captivating look into the life of an incredibly talented artist. The film dives deep into his creative process and explores his incredible house, which he has completely covered in doodles-an amazing extension of his unique artistic vision. It also highlights important topics like mental health and creativity, shedding light on issues that deserve more attention. The only opportunity for improvement would be that if the film were available on major streaming platforms, it could reach a wider audience and inspire even more important conversations.

This beautifully composed documentary film takes you on the rollercoaster which is Sam's life. It perfectly enables you to glimpse at the creative genius, from humble beginnings to extraordinary heights and everything in between. The raw emotion from Sam and his family, makes this one of the most powerful films ever made documenting the instability of the mind and how to balance creativity. It's honesty throughout I know will help provoke conversations around mental health, as we positively celebrate Sam for his strength to overcome the challenges and courage to share his toughest moments. Thank you for making this, thank you for sharing it with us.

Firstly no reflection of Sam, his partner or family, conditions are real and awful and I'm not going to cast shade on his journey or story however this making content for awareness is so tedious at this point.

As someone deep into the mental health system what has all this awareness done? Has it created more jobs, more people get exactly what they need, appointments are regular and personalised? They can tackle multiple issues, well no, quite the opposite, it's lead to the highest number of people clogging up the system and an alarming amount of professionals having to be spread thin for a growing number of people exploiting and abusing the service who use mental health to excuse their personality. The good ira done is heavily outweighed because no one fought for action, just attention, don't believe social media all the time. It's worse than it's ever been as like many things, more aware you make people, the more that'll abuse it for personal gain.

So why did I hate this? Well quite easy, there was provably 15 minutes of silly silly including him doing "crazy eyes" at the camera in a situation where he was told to do it rather than a bad time, the filming of it spiralling and all the effects made it just another cheap cash in, making an entertainment show out of something important, the end scene with the baby was just awful. How that poor girl stayed is beyond me.

There's no detail in the stories, no specifics, no medical experts explaining issues, no talk of and of the ramifications, no talk of really how family felt, how the gf felt or any of that. No real examples of exactly what happened when bad, even though anyone with a brain could see he had issues early on in their filming. It was just a shallow entertainment piece, there was nothing about psychosis, a condition I have. It was just a word in a senate. There was just no detail, no meat to the story and a clear lack of interest in going even remotely deeply. It was lazy, too focused on silly camera effects and him needless trying to look crazy.

It'll get praise because people are too scared to actually fight for real mental health change.