After viewing Lars and The Real Girl, it’s clear that Lars, a troubled young adult, has developed concerning issues throughout his life. After learning more of his past, the audience is able to piece together the reasons behind his complex behavior. His hurtful childhood experiences come back to haunt him in the form of mental illnesses as he struggles to function normally in his day to day life as an adult. Throughout the movie, Lars has a clear attachment to an everyday grey blanket. After being separated from it for more than a few hours after lending it to his sister-in-law, he’s anxious to get it back. As the plot progresses, it is revealed that the blanket was knitted for Lars by his mother, whom tragically passed away during childbirth. …show more content…
Instead, Lars has a mixture of traits from several contributing illnesses, all molding together to form his mental state. Lars seems to be depressed, judging from his lack of companions in his life at the beginning of the movie. He dares to leave the safety of his house only for common events such as church and otherwise hides in his blank, bare home, letting loneliness consume the space with silence. He is hesitant to merely visit his family that lives next door. This may also come from a hint of avoidant personality disorder; Lars may have a slight knowledge that he’s different from everyone else, therefore avoiding situations where he could potentially be ridiculed by peers. As the story continues, Lars tries to overcome his forbidding loneliness by purchasing a “real life doll” to act as a girlfriend of his. He genuinely believes the doll is alive and functioning as any human would; he takes the doll, Bianca, all around the town as the townspeople partake in his imaginative scenario. He treats her as anyone else would treat their significant other, increasing his family’s discomfort--as well as concern--with the situation. Lars’ belief that Bianca is real could allude to traits of a delusional disorder, which is hinted at when Gus, Lars’ brother, Googles the term in a desperate attempt to classify his brother. While Lars’ individual actions hint at certain illnesses, he is overall pointing towards having schizoid personality disorder. His ignorance of his family nearby and his lack of close friendships shows he blocks himself off to forming close emotional attachments to many other people in his life. At first, he seems to avoid any attempts of a relationship from Margo, the “real girl” whom eventually breaks Lars away from Bianca. To match with this diagnoses, Lars is also hypersensitive concerning touch, which isn’t unusual
The protagonist in the motion picture Good Will Hunting is called Will, and he is described to be a high intellect person but with recluse tendencies whereby he has kept to himself mostly having only a few friends near him. The young adult is employed as a janitor in the university where can work out a difficult question presented to the students by the professor. The problem appears to be quite difficult for the students, but he does not struggle. The teacher takes an interest in the young man and stands for him in court and takes responsible for him. He takes him to therapy to treat his psychological disorder which becomes apparent with the actions and words that he utters in the film. Will is tough in the therapy sessions until he later
Lars and the Real Girl was an independent film about a young man named Lars who lived a quiet stable life until he was struck with such severe mental illness that the whole community rallied to support him on his mission to recovery. Lars was a great example of a man who had suffered from early attachment loss and childhood trauma that manifested into psychological dysfunction.
The movie revolves around Maddie (Seigel) who at age 13 developed bacterial meningitis and as a result developed vocal paralysis and became Deaf. The movie explores the situation behind her being under attack by an unknown serial killer. When the killer sees her he believes that she will be easy prey. Critics assist this theory by calling the movie a “suspenseful cat & mouse thriller” ().
“HE’S GOT THE WORLD ON TWO STRINGS”(pg21). Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers go through a lot since Steve met Nathaniel a homeless man whole plays the violin in downtown Los Angeles. Nathaniel is a homeless man who has paranoid schizophrenia travels downtown Los Angeles pushing his cart with his violin in it. Steve is a writer works for the Los Angeles Times and is always looking for a story for he can write for his column. Both Nathaniel and Steve create a friendship even though with all the challenges but in the book The Soloist it shows how they created a friendship. Even though in The Soloist they talk about how mental illness is a choice, force medication to treat the illness, and the way people treat you.
Through careful examination, one can see that the characters in Gilmore Girls represent Sigmund Freud’s id, ego, and superego. Lorelai Gilmore demonstrates the id because of her rash decision-making and conscious drive for her own happiness. Whether she does so by disregarding other’s requests, or by not considering their feelings. Next, Rory Gilmore’s logical approach to problem-solving shows that she best symbolizes the ego. Last, because she only considers what others think, Emily Gilmore’s personality resembles the superego. By watching Gilmore Girls, the extremeness of how each character solves her problems can help us be certain that our decisions include a balance of the id, ego, and superego.
Released in 1996, Sling Blade is a movie that focuses on mental illness. The movies follows the main character, Karl as he is released from a mental hospital. Karl was first admitted to the mental hospital because she killed his mother and her significant other when he was very young. He spent his whole life at the mental hospital. Years later, the mental hospital decided that he was cured and he was free to leave. After Karl is released he is given a job and a place to stay. He also befriends a young boy named Frank. Frank and Karl share a special relationship. Frank’s mother, Linda allows Karl to stay in her garage. At Frank’s home, his mother’s abusive boyfriend, Doyle also lives with them. Doyle is abusive to everyone in the household
There are many movies that portray mental and psychological disorders, from these I chose the award winning movie: Rain Man. Rain Man was released on December 14, 1988. In the beginning of this movie, a car dealer, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), learns that his father has died and returns home to Cincinnati to attend his funeral. Charlie and his father had a falling out with each other starting when Charlie was sixteen years old and decided to steal his father’s car for a victory lap around town. His father reported the car stolen, resulting in Charlie being arrested. Charlie’s friends got off with a warning, however Charlie’s father decided to leave his son in jail for two days before he got him out. Charlie’s mother died when he was two years
On the surface, Ginger Snaps can be easily dismissed by critics as a typical B-rated teen-turned-werewolf movie. What distinguishes this movie from other horror films, however, is its subversion of the traditional perspective of its genre. The transformation in the film is suffered by Ginger Fitzgerald, a sixteen-year-old girl. This lycanthropy coincides with Ginger's first menstrual period, making the subject matter metaphorical for the often fearful transition into the sexuality and identity formation of adulthood. Moreover, the relationship between Ginger and her sister Brigitte deteriorates in such a way that is also emblematic of the human psyche's conflicts. As their paths diverge in the film, each sister is confronted with the instincts of love and death or aggression; Eros and Thanatos in Freud's terms. The focus here will be to view these salient themes in Ginger Snaps through the lens of Freudian analysis. More specifically, this paper will analyze the psychical conflict due to complications of the instinct toward love or aggression, as represented in the metaphorical transition into adolescence and the relationship between the two sisters.
He felt extremely unfit for his identity when he began to watch pornographic movies in his office, so he lied to his boss that it was his assistant who watched it on his computer. Furthermore, he blatantly shouted at his assistant as if he was punishing himself for the dirty movies that he watches in his office. The director deliberately covers the unblinking truth contained in the character’s sexual urge as a way to allow interpretation for the audience. It is easy to get lost in one’s identity in the society, and the availability of sex has made people lost interest in what is ordinary and acceptable. Sissy as an intruder of Brandon’s life insinuates the monstrosity that devours his personality and interrupts his identity to make him feel desperate and scared for his unconscious sexual attempt of his sister. The incest delusion triggers Brandon’s monstrosity that lays within his inability to suppress his addiction to sex, dual personality, and repetition trauma occurrences in the extremity
Stellios has Asperger’s Syndrome, suffers from depression and anxiety, experienced a series of seizures, and was then diagnosed as an epileptic. An outcome of Asperger’s syndrome is limited social skills, this has resulted in Stellios having a limited support network. Isabella attempts to encourage Stellios to explore new opportunities, but Stellios isolates himself from opportunities due to fears of failing.
Through careful examination, one can see that the Gilmore Girls represent Sigmund Freud’s id, ego, and superego. First, Lorelai Gilmore representing the id because of her rash decision-making and her conscious drive for her own happiness. Next, Rory Gilmore’s logical approach to problem-solving shows that she best symbolizes the ego. Last, because she only considers what others think, Emily Gilmore’s personality resembles the superego. By watching Gilmore Girls, the extremeness of how each character solves her problems can help us be certain that our decisions include a balance of the id, ego, and superego.
For a long time I had an deep interest in schizophrenia, I think that mental illness such as this one of ten miss interpreted in the media. There have been several movies that display schizophrenia in pop culture. One of these movies is one that I very much enjoyed tittle sucker punch.
As portrayed in A Beautiful Mind, John Nash is clearly suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia, although a case could possibly be made for a secondary diagnosis of OCD. His condition is clearly displayed through a pattern of behavior and symptoms including: distorted perceptions of reality, social withdrawal, paranoia, hallucinations, self-inflicted harm and general irrational behavior. He imagines 3 specific individuals throughout the movie, who accompany him throughout the remainder of his life. He avoids social situations, and when faced with them, has a difficult time relating to others, such as approaching a woman in a bar and forwardly asking to skip the usual pleasantries and go straight to sex. Unsurprisingly, this approach fails to achieve his goal. Paranoia is also on display on several occasions, seeing people watching him, believing himself to be spied upon, seeing shadowy figures outside his home. He also believed that an object had been implanted into his arm, prompting him to tear his skin apart in order to remove the object, which was never there to begin with.
Psychoanalysts focus on the unconscious mind as the sole problem of all things. It has to do with your Id, the part of ourselves that contains our unconscious desires and immoral thoughts, our ego, our reality, and lastly our super ego, our ideal moral self. The part of ourselves that encourages us to do the right thing is the super ego. (Psychodynamic Theories of Personality, 5). If something is found to be affecting you in a wrong way, then it has to do with the Id controlling you or it could deal with the stages of personality that Freud came up with. The stages are: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital. (Psychodynamic Theories of Personality, 8) Our case is of a 14 year old freshman named Jodie. She has been feeling hopeless and depressed since her mother passed away. She has been experimenting with illegal drugs and alcohol. She used to have good grades and a good GPA, but now she is failing over half of her classes. She also is not communicating with anyone in her family. Jodie is the oldest child of three and has the responsibility of taking care of her two younger brothers. Unfortunately now she neglects them. She leaves them home alone to take care of themselves. She does not feed them or watch over them. She has
She is not quite as carefree and unburdened as the present day Sarah, who flits back and forth between her two suitors while seeming beholden to neither of them. However, Sarah is almost androgynous at times, with her less quintessentially feminine attire and pipe-smoking; with her refusal to conform to societal expectations and settle down with one boy or the other, she appears the perfect modern woman. But this accolade truly belongs to Marianne; at the beginning of the film, Marianne is relying on Isak to be her transportation to Lund and is quite literally a secondary character, a passenger, in their conveyance there. Abruptly, Marianne begins to be the driver, as Isak gets lost in his memories; it is she who tosses the bickering couple out of the car. She has decided her path: to keep the child, regardless of the repercussions the decision has on her marriage. In the end, Evald reluctantly accepts the child in an effort to stay with Marianne. This does not necessarily qualify as a happy ending for the couple; their continued union, in fact, seems quite tentative. However, Marianne’s relationship with Isak has improved tremendously; as he comes to terms with the mistakes of his past, she is able to recognize his genuine contrition and forgive him for how he has treated his son, and by extension,