The Trouble with Mr Doodle

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 is a touching story concerning the fragility of the human mind and the strength of a mother's love, of an unconventional boy and the troubled genius he became, and of the resilience of a family when circumstances begin to spiral out of control.

Fans of Mr Doodle will certainly enjoy the biographical elements of this film and the retrospective look at aspects of his work is interspersed with new sequences of cut-out animation and early footage of his attempts to commercialise his work. But this is more than just a bittersweet biographical film.

Poignantly told by his wife, family, and friends, this story touches on the world of art, commercial art, doodles, celebrity and the zeitgeist of the 2020's. But it is not necessary to care about those things, to be moved by this film. It is sufficient simply to be curious about the human condition, and what can happen when creativity turns to obsession.

The Trouble with Mr Doodle really gave us such an insight into the extremely talented artist Sam Cox ( Mr Doodles ) brain/ life this film will inspire & help a lot of people myself included. Sam & his family really should feel proud to be sharing such a heartfelt & brave part of their life, hearing from his family's & wife's even Sam's school Art teachers perspective of what took place really was so touching.

Watching Mr Doodle & Mrs Doodles amazing Doodle mansion be created from start to end is absolutely breathtaking & this film will show you that your dreams truly can become reality! I couldn't recommend watching this more you'll be hooked the whole way through,

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.

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.