"In my head, two worlds collide..."

After finishing our last documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, I realized that the mini theme within a theme for all of the ones we watched would have to be obsession. Every single one of these subjects were basically destroyed by their obsessions. Daniel Johnston obviously has mental problems and drug problems, but the crux of his issues really comes from his single minded and unrelenting obsession about a woman who probably doesn't even think twice about him. He's unable to let go of the idea that someday he will be with the girl of his dreams, so he spends all of his time literally battling what he sees as demons in his head in order to write the perfect song that will make her love him. This was probably the best movie of the bunch, but it was just as difficult to watch. Daniel probably won't ever "recover" or be able to take care of himself the way his parents hope he will someday, but he clearly has so many people in his corner that any time he asks for help he will have it. We found it very touching that his former manager still works to this day to try to get Daniel's music out there to the public because he believes so deeply in his talent. Although we couldn't quite see the "genius" that everyone else in the movie was raving about it's plain to see that Daniel has affected many people through his art.