Stockholm Syndrome, much like PSTD, schizophrenia and
autism, is a term that has been so consistently overused in the popular
consciousness that you’d be forgiven for completely forgetting what its
original meaning even was. Hell, it even makes for one of the most
under-discussed on the flip-side, both in actual psychiatric academia and in
how there are far too many romantic films out there that require that condition
to make any bloody sense, yet never get brought up in the narrative proper.
Considering all this, this film about the incident that gave the condition its
popular name could serve as a refresher for those who use it too willingly to
describe real-world scenarios today. Shame it doesn’t really turn out that way,
or turn out much of any way by film’s end.
