Fortunately, the film is careful not to get too serious. When Dani uses them more than necessary, her life spirals out of control. These portions address the sacrifices one has to make to manage one’s troubles and the guilt that stems from them. It also cautions against being too dependent on meds. He is just like her, going through the same emotions.īut she is eventually forced to understand this situation because it brings up conflicted feelings not too different from the ones associated with her bond with her mother. It makes sense from his point of view, though.

And there is a doctor who comes up with a wrong diagnosis that makes her feel as though she has a worrying physical condition.ĭuring one of these group therapy meets, she hooks up with a psychotherapist (Gustavo Vaz), and the film goes into romantic comedy mode, albeit briefly.īut when he says something that she didn’t want to hear, it becomes too difficult for her to bear.

To find a solution, she knocks on the doors of all kinds of spiritual healers, but they don’t offer any hope. She is also overprotective, which doesn’t help Dani when she makes an important career decision. Her mother, for example, has separation anxiety. She was born in a family where each member has their quirks. And there is no particular incident that made Dani this way. She fears cockroaches, failure, the thought of her parents dying, the world ending, and so on.ĭebora acts out each of these episodes so convincingly that one can feel everything she is going through. When the film opens, Dani pictures the child version of her running with a bag of marbles that unwraps itself to send its contents rolling in different directions.ĭani, who works as a copywriter in an ad agency and writes a self-help column in a newspaper, often finds her anxiety getting in the way of her work.

Anxiety, in varying degrees, is the film’s primary antagonist. Then you would find Dani to be a very relatable character even if you haven’t experienced the sort of extreme episodes that she goes through in the film. Have you ever cancelled that birthday party, that meeting, or that date simply because sudden panic held you in its vice-like grip? For Dani, almost everything around her is a trigger. Since I haven’t read the book, I’m assuming the lead character, Dani (Débora Falabella), is the alter-ego of Tati Bernardi.

When u lose your marbles