Stutz (2022) review

Actor Jonah Hill, who has openly struggled with anxiety, depression and weight issues, decides to make a documentary about his psychiatrist Phil Stutz - whom he credits with helping him get through a particularly tough time in his life (Hill's brother Jordan passed away in 2017) - and allows Stutz to present his somewhat Jungian concepts ("The Shadow," "The Maze," "The Snapshot," "Part X," etc.) that are there to help combat the "pain, uncertainty and constant work" of Earthly existence.  I think it's a little too easy to kvetch about the director and his subject "breaking" the doctor-patient relationship and petty to claim it's a "vanity project" for Jonah: I truly believe he made this to show not only how he and his therapist "relate" to one another (there's an Oedipal component to it) but also how strongly he believes in "The Tools" created by Stutz and the way they've helped him out.  Interestingly enough, Jonah gets Phil to talk about his own struggles - with Parkinson's Disease, with forming human connections - to remind everyone that physicians and therapists have personal problems too.  The topic, quite frankly, couldn't be more timely - according to the CDC web site, "1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year," which is an alarming number, and yet I still feel there's this stigma around it ... certainly with all of the mass shootings going on something is deeply wrong.