This documentary is filled with dysfunctional geniuses who are a hair's breadth away from losing touch with reality.
Hans Christian Andersen is deeply eccentric, if not completely cuckoo, in Sebastian Barry's new biodrama, Andersen's English, about two privately dysfunctional literary geniuses.
Those tales too have favoured warriors and generals, tycoons and tough boardroom bosses, lone, dysfunctional scientific geniuses, angry self-destructive artists, overlooking their equally single-minded female equivalents who were obliged to make their world-changing interventions in other ways.
That's why such decisions are decided through a republican democracy — both lower case — and not by genius academics, however messy and dysfunctional the resulting process may be.
Sydney is one of the most recognisable places on Earth, thanks to its famous city beaches and the two contrasting works of genius on the harbour, the magnificently functional bridge and the maddeningly dysfunctional opera house.
Tim Rogers, as Freddie, the unlikable, hard-drinking chess genius, makes him a brilliantly despicable jerk and then, in his big number, Pity the Child, shows how a dysfunctional upbringing shaped him.
Simon Robson's Higgins is a fascinating creation: uncouth, intoxicated with his own genius and only capable of perceiving people as aggregates of interesting phonemes, like an Edwardian ancestor of television's dysfunctional diagnostician Dr Gregory House.
The board became dysfunctional.
"It is currently dysfunctional".
"It's uniquely dysfunctional".
