Isolation In Shutster Island, And Shutter Island : Psychological Compressions

In the film, the participants completed seven tasks, which were designed to highlight characteristics or symptomology of one or more mental illnesses. While observing each task, I sympathized with

Nearly everyone in the world can be classified with some sort of mental or psychological disorder, whether it’s a big “problem” or just something small and rather unnoticable. Since film making became possible, people have been producing movies with a character that has some sort of psychological or mental disorder. Within the last 20 years, American Psycho, Shutter Island, and The Black Swan, have all had strong in their message and meaning in the mental disorder community. American Psycho and The Black Swan deal with borderline personality disorders in both of the main characters, while Shutter Island is more about post traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder. Movies dealing with characters with mental or psychological disorders are harder to portray, but if they can be portrayed correctly, they are likely to be some of the best movies you have ever seen.

Images of confinement and escape in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Is shown all throughout the story, Mrs. Mallard felt trapped she did not seem happy at all. The feeling of freedom seemed to take over Mrs. Mallard body. Her exhaustion seems to confine her so when Mrs. Mallard heard the news about her husband. All she could think of is being alone and confining herself in a room where she can express how she truly feels. Mrs. Mallard felt tied down and exhausted from being trapped. Instead of her

Holden's disconnection from his family and friends causes an isolation that then leads to the deep depression expressed in the novel as “his great fall”. Sending him to boarding school portrays the physical and emotional distance that Holden faces with his parents. After the death of his younger brother it is implied that Holden displayed the tendencies of a distraught teneager. By “flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.(6))” Yet instead of dealing with the issues of their problematic son they instead choose to send him away to boarding school as a means of not having to have that problem. Holden is so far disconnected from his parents emotionally and physically that it becomes a sure fire way for him to lead the life of a

So Jeannette had no friends, because she was not their version of normal. Isolation is a choice. People can choose if they are isolated from others or not. An example of a family who chose to isolate themselves would be the Walls’s. Rex and Rosemary Walls chose to isolate their family because they were incapable of providing a safe life for their children.

Second impact of social isolation starts to begin from mental health. On the other way mentally ill members sometimes be socially isolated by the other members of the family which adversely impact the mental condition. Mental illness starts first with anxiety which deteriorates to depression and finally psychological disorder. Mentally ill patients do not want to mention their loneliness rather they express their problem in terms of anxiety and depression. It has been reported by Twenge, 2000 that social isolation from others can give rise to anxiety and stress which if persistent for long time can cause serious morbidity or mortality. In contrast it has also been evident that social affiliation or being with others can reduce or

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island is an American mind bending thriller film based on Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel also named Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead role as a U.S Marshall named Teddy Daniels, who along with his partner, Chuck Aule (played by Mark Ruffalo), are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a patient at a highly guarded and isolated psychiatric penitentiary located on Shutter Island. Teddy Daniels runs about the island trying to uncover the mysteries of the Shutter Island psychiatric ward, only falling deeper into the conspiracy, all the while dealing with his past horrors and hallucinations that somehow help him in his investigation. As the plot unfolds, vivid scenes and music help reveal

First, In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, there are many examples of isolation, Ethan the main character is one example of isolation. Ethan at a young age had to care for the farm and mill soon after his father had passed away. He left his education and career to do so, he later had to care for his mother who fell ill. After this Ethan didn't really have a life of his own, he had to help others and didn't receive any help for a while. Later, Zenobia had come to help aid his mother, and yet somehow managed to aid Ethan along the way. To Ethan Zeena was an escape from his loneliness. When his mother

Isolation and loneliness is one of the main themes when it comes to surviving in an isolated

The word isolation is a term that is used to describe someone as being confined without much, or any contact. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the two characters, Crooks and Curley's wife had isolation forced on them throughout the entire course of the novel. The character Crooks was an old black man, during 1937, who lived in a little hut next the pile that was kept for the manure. He lives there by himself away from everyone else, and has no contact other than when he is given orders about work. Curley’s wife has been isolated because she is not trusted by her own husband and everyone considers her to be too flirty and a tart. These two characters both deal with isolation because they both don’t matter to anyone and are

The punishment for bad behavior in correctional institutions usually is that of solitary confinement, forcing the individual to not having any interactions between his peers. Although not causing any physical trauma to the inmate, the act of isolating them from everyone and everything proves to be the most feared method of punishment. A primarily social species, humans crave the interaction between themselves and others, relying on them for not only comfort and validation, but also to escape the fear that can be created from ones own mind. The film Pontypool uses such an idea, isolation the protagonists from direct knowledge of ongoings that threaten the world around them, depriving them of any sense of security and creating a far darker reality mentally than what could theoretically exist.

The portrayal of people being sickly creatures has been used in Hollywood film for a very long time. This has been in the endeavor of putting the viewing public in the shoes of the patient and entertain them with over the top portrayals of disease. For patients that are women in particular this has been achieved by defining them along the lines of vague terms such as them being over emotional and unstable. Despite the advancement experienced by the society, women have not yet fully seen the goal of equality realize fruition. With the expansion of the psychiatric and psychological terminologies, there now additional ways via which mental illness can be ascribed as a weakness for men and women portrayed in Hollywood film. This is best

Mental health is a heavy topic of conversation in general. People still struggle with grasping a real understanding of what mental health is and how it effects a person in their daily life. Due to the already limited understanding of mental health, it is often glamorized or portrayed in an over-exaggerated manner with heavy influence on the close ups and different kinds of camera angles in order to express the insanity of a particular character or characters. The films My Friend Dahmer and The Fire Within, a French film directed by Louis Malle, introduce characters with mental illnesses in different eras of Hollywood media. The two films utilize cinematography and narrative to express the mental health issues impeding the two protagonists.

Understanding mental illness for the average person can be challenge or even unattainable. Unknown aspects from each individual illness grasps differing urges that are unrelated to the majority of people. The film industry, however, is used as a productive machine of creating empathetic relationships between its audience and the people being portray in the film. A combination of the film industry and the implementation of characters struggling with mental illness delivers a provoking message to an audience of people willing to learn the situations of all people. The movie A Beautiful Mind manages to fulfill the dramatic effects of a film and the realities within an individual suffering through mental illness.

The movie I have chosen to do my psychological film disorder assignment on is Girl Interrupted which is a psychological drama directed by James Mangold. The movie takes place in a mental institution for troubled women. All of the characters in this movie suffer from one or more mental illnesses such as depression, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia. The movie gives us an inside look on how poorly these women are being treated and how they are treated as if they are abnormal because they are in this institution. Similarly the women are faced with their own personal and outer issues within the institution. The director gives us an inside look on how the patients are being treated poorly are