So I’ve got a paper to write tonight for Abnormal Psychology. The class basically covers a broad range of psychological diseases (Bipolar, schizophrenia, eating disorders, OCD, antisocial personality disorder, histrionic, borderline, anxiety and personality disorders, etc, etc…).
The assignment is to rent and watch a movie where a main character portrays, or the story itself, revolves around a mental disease. I then have to evaluate how well or poorly the movie represented the disease itself (more likely how poorly it was portrayed since most movies exaggerate symptoms to meat what society views as the definitions of these diseases, and not what they actually are).
I’m not really a big movie buff, so I have no idea where to start looking for such a movie, and even if I were to find a few titles, I don’t want to be bored to death watching a shitty movie.
The story begins in the early years of Nash’s life at Princeton University as he develops his “original idea” that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Later, Nash develops schizophrenia and endures paranoid and delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.
Rain man was autistic. For some reason I don’t think it fits the topic of Abnormal Psych. Maybe it does. I don’t know. :shrug:
I really wanted to do Rain Man actually, one of my favorite movies of all time…but, we haven’t actually covered Autism yet in the semester, so she doesn’t want me doing that one…fucking lame…
Girl’s in a psych ward with a bunch of crazy people with all different mental disorders. Plus Angelina Jolie is oh so hot in it.
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while i’m a big fan of her, i dont think this would work…it’d be tough to concentrate on one specific disorder when many are part of the movie…i’m sure i’d be able to get a lot more out of it if the movie were to concentrate on just one disease…
right now i’m leaning toward A Beautiful Mind…never seen it before, and know it was big when it came out, hear nothing but good things…
