Silver Linings Playbook Character Analysis

Analysis on Silver Linings Playbook

The movie selected portrays a good sense of mental behaviors from multiple characters in the movie. The movie follows the main character named Pat. He just finished his time in a mental hospital due to an incident he had with his wife. One day coming home early from work, he hears loud music playing by Stevie Wonder “My Cherie Amour”. As he walks upstairs, he starts to see his wife’s clothes scattered on the floor and sees her in the shower. He thinks she is waiting for him, but he finds out she is cheating on him with a history teacher who works at the school where they work. Pat snapped and beat up history teacher pretty badly. Pat shares in the movie that he been hiding an illness his who life but didn’t know exactly what it was. He had a second incident with his wife because he claimed she and the history teacher was plotting against him and embezzling money from the school which was an illusion caused by mood swings and stress. After all that, he went to the hospital and diagnosed him of being bipolar.

Pat is obsessed of trying to rekindle his marriage, but he can’t come to the realization that Nikki has left him and sold the house. Even though everybody around him claims that they will not get back together, he

There are different examples that correlate to the diagnosis. Almost every day Pat goes out for a long run because he wants to show Nikki that he lost weight and looks fit for her. He also loses sleep by being fixated on a character named character Hemmingway in a book. He losses interests in everything else, but trying to get Nikki back. He gets into a fight at a football game when you can see him talking to himself trying not to intervene. You can also say Tiffany has borderline personality for these reasons. She is reluctant to spend time with her sister at dinner time. When things are not going her way she seem to feel self-guilt and starts drinking