Analyzing The Movie 'Sybil'

“No wire hangers!” What would be a normal thing to find in an average persons home is not accepted in Joan Crawford’s home. This posses the question why in the movie Mommie Dearest does Mrs. Crawford have a dilemma with wire hangers in her closet? Why does she have so many mental complications in general? Although to the public, Joan seems like a striving successful actress she obviously has some underlying issues. She has developed her personality disorders her whole life, but how she got them is a mystery. Most people develop personality disorders from their parents or how they are raised. This is most likely the case with Joan Crawford, but no one really knows since she is diseased. Joan has four major personality disorders within the movie; Obsessive-compulsive, Bipolar, Borderline, and Narcissistic personality disorder.

If you have ever had an interest in multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder, you have probably seen the movie Sybil. Sybil is a movie about a girl named Sybil who was traumatically abused as a child and begins to have dissociative episodes that carry into her adulthood. After Sybil has a dissociative episode so bad that she cuts her wrist and doesn’t remember what happened, she decides to seek help. It is when Sybil seeks help that she meets Dr. Wilber. Dr. Wilber begins Psychoanalysis on Sybil after diagnosing her with Multiple personality disorder. Through therapy, Dr. Wilber begins to discover all of the traumatic abuse that Sybil endured. Dr. Wilber also meets the

The Bee Movie is a film that shows the never ending struggle between good and evil. After Barry Benson leaves the hive and begins to talk to humans, he sees that the humans have been harvesting and eating honey without the bees’ knowledge. He finds out that bee farms exist and their only purpose is to make bees work and to take the honey from them; from Barry’s eyes humans are grossly mistreating the bees. When he first gets to the farm, Barry overhears two beekeepers talking: “They make the honey and we make the money” (Hickner, Bee Movie). The bees work extremely hard to make honey, so Barry is appalled that humans are greedily taking their entire life’s work. Because of this, Barry decides to file a lawsuit against all humans. The case is set up in a way that presents the humans as bullies and the bees as defenseless, harmless creatures. As Barry explains in his opening statement, the honey companies are “exploiting tiny helpless bees,” and back in the hive bee news anchors tell the public that humans are “packing [honey] and profiting from it illegally” (Hickner, Bee Movie). It becomes very clear that humans are evil and bees are inherently good. Also, during the trial, Ray Liotta suggests that “someone just step on [Barry] and [the people involved in the lawsuit] could all go home,” proving that humans do not care about bees (Hickner, Bee Movie). The theme of good versus evil is supported through the fact that the bees use honey, one of the movies motifs, for everything. They use it as antenna gel, soap, toothpaste, food, and they even fill pools with it; honey is an integral part of their daily life. It is everything they know and humans are taking it without their consent. As soon as bees are eligible, they start to make honey and they work until they die. Honey is literally their life’s work and the bees want a say in who gets to use it.

“Working Girl,” depicts important battles that women are still fighting today, it brings light to the ridiculous judgments and barriers that women had to smash to establish themselves in the business field. The film was written by Kevin Wade and released in 1988, the story is based in New York City from the inspiration of New York commuters and the noticing that many young women were wearing white tennis shoes on their way to work, carrying high heels to change into once arriving to work. Tess McGill, an undervalued and mistreated sectary to the ultimate feministic triumph, Kathrine Parker who steals Tess McGill’s idea for a radio deal for their company, are the main characters. While Kathrine Parker is on a skiing trip and breaks her

The movie I watched that I haven’t seen before was “UP’. I watched it with my daughter. The movie “Up” is about a 78-year old widower, Mr. Fredrickson who decided to take an adventure that he and has now deceased wife, have dreamed about since they were young. He was being forced into a retirement home because those around him thought he couldn’t care for himself, and his moods were way out of whack. “Up” explores themes of knowledge of aging people. Society places ideas into the heads of many that old people are easily dispensable. That we can just throw the elder people away, treating them as if they are sub-human. Carl in the movie is looked down upon as a nuisance, and an issue, instead of as a human who makes mistakes and has feelings.

In the book, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the de Tournay family narrates their escape from France. This event is shown in the movie, but not very convincingly since most of the acting is poor. Perhaps the director wanted to add more action to the beginning since he took away much of the drama and excitement in the ending. The book is better because of more notable characters, more variety of settings, more romantic gestures, and overall, a more interesting storyline.

In the article Savoy and Frederick reported that she could easily change between personalities “Nevertheless, RV was able to switch easily between all three personalities” (pg. 113). This gave Savoy and Frederick an exceptional chance to dig deeper into these very rare and unknown disorder. The volunteer happens to have three completely personalities in which one she is an adult in the next she is a six year old and in her last she is a pre-vocal baby. Psychiatrist believe that one of the reasons she is able to switch easily between identities which were “adult (“A”) and child (“C”) personalities could maintain a stable head position fairly well, but the same was not true for the baby (“B”)” (pg. 113) is because the treatment she is receiving is very effective and helping her overcome the trauma she has been through. Although the exact reasons on why different identities are formed within these people is not known there is tons of theories on what can start this. The people doubting this mostly disregard this disorder because they believe that if it were true there would be no possible way the main personality would know about the others. What doctors found in this research was frankly quite interesting, as the volunteer changed between personalities the time it took her to switch took a little bit longer each time and gave her a lot of more trouble interchanging. The MRI scans these doctors performed on her while she was changing revealed some changes going inside of her brain as she was interchanging personalities. These studies may prove many of the older cases as true as there has not been of many where the patient can interchange personalities. Most of these stories can come to people as made as they contain many bizarre events but these

Similarly, once Steven and Phillip leave the prison, they are free to form a life together and instead of making an honest living, Steven reverts back to his true character. At first, it seems that he will finally become the man Phillip wants him to be, Steven even says, "I promised he would never want for anything again, that meant I needed a real job." (47.07) His promise is accompanied by soft background music and intimate shots of the two of them on a beach. The audience is practically fed romance of a platter and we eat it up because we have invested so much of the movie watching their relationship grow.

For years throughout her childhood she watched her mother, who suffered from schizophrenia, abuse her mentally and physically. In order to cope with this trauma, she would completely blank out and become one out of her sixteen personalities. For years, Sybil did not know how it felt to be accepted until she met her psychoanalyst. Back during her time period, mental illness was frequently ignored. You were shunned if you had it, sent away, or even abused. It is a very harsh topic for me to discuss since it runs throughout my family. However, I loved how this movie brought awareness to her specific

After writing my story, “The Newspaper,” I have learned about the importance of imagery and how to describe a place or scene without running on and on about it. I would have never have had this idea about writing the story, taking place in New York, without watching the movie, Taxi, starring Jimmy Fallon. I was able to use the movie as the setting for the story. The movie takes place in New York and that is how to whole idea of “The Newspaper” came about. There is a part in the movie in which the taxi driver is running red lights and blowing stops signs to get Jimmy to the police station as soon as possible. In relation to my story, Vince doesn’t got about his day like the last, today was a different day for him because he started to realized thing he has never payed any attention to, like all the sounds of sirens and horns honking.

Some aspects of character’s actions do match up with the DSM-5 description of DID diagnosis. Such as at least two or more distinct alter identities are shown in the character. There is discontinuity in a person's sense of self, it is shown the alter identities that have different attitudes and preferences. Dr. Fletcher observes the signs, she noticed how the alter identity of Barry is unusual and symptoms of distress in social and occupational area, as struggles with his job are highlighted during the session. Recurrent amnesia is also seen as Dennis does not recall sending email at an odd time to the psychiatrist for an emergency session. It is interesting to see that the psychiatrist, caught how one of the alter identity Dennis who was claiming to be Barry

Greed. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Lust. Pride. Sloth. These acts and feelings are what most Christians consider the seven deadly sins. If you commit any of these sins, you are doomed to hell and and an agonizing death. While most religious people avoid the sins like the plague and see most people as good samaritans, some see the sins in everyone they encounter like it’s written all over their face. Se7en, by David Fincher, explores what happens when the people who see the sins in everyone decides to act on their views. The movie follows two detectives, played by Brad Pitt(David Mills) and Morgan Freeman(Detective Somerset), who follow a line of murders happening in the city they live in. They eventually figure out that these

Judy Hopps, also known as Ginnifer Goodwin, is a fictional character in the movie Zootopia. Zootopia is an action packed animated film that came out on March 4, 2016. All of the characters in the movie are anthropomorphic, which means they are all animals that have human characteristics. The movie is about a young rabbit named Judy Hopps who wants to become the first bunny cop in Zootopia. Zootopia is a large city where predator and prey live together in perfect harmony. Until some of the predators start going savage and then missing. Hopps knows the challenge she is up against and she is ready to do whatever it takes to find the missing animals (Howard and

In the movie Her directed by Spike Jonze the characters “Theodore” portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix and “Samantha” voiced by Scarlett Johansson are in a relationship as human and operating system. The movie asks many questions within the plot such as whether Samantha is actually conscious and if their relationship with each other is a legitimate one. Throughout the movie the two are shown progressing romantically and sexually. Even as human and operating system their interactions with other people and the (assumable) end to Theodore and Samantha’s relationship are visible properties to how each progresses. Theodore and Samantha’s relationship is a legitimate one because it develops, fits under the theory of love as valuing, and goes under the definition of a healthy loving relationship.

The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics of obsession or fame. More specifically, the obsession of fame, and the illusion of happiness that fame projects. The main characters of the movie both urn for the fame of being the world’s most successful entertainer, even if for different reasons.