Psych Analysis of the Movie "Blow"

Set far into the future, WALL-E tells the journey of a simple minded robot whose purpose is to clean Earth for the return of life. Humans live in a high-tech spacecraft called the Axiom, protecting them from illness and environmental hazards that inhabit the Earth. With the arrival of extraterrestrial vegetation evaluator, or EVE lands on earth looking for signs of life (her directive). Soon after, WALL-E is thrown into a series of events that ultimately better the future and create a new beginning for himself and mankind. Upon analyzing the film WALL-E through Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic theory, the audience realizes the repeated themes and character archetypes symbolize rebirth.

Besides the obvious appeal of the "high" or elation, which occurs subsequent to drug administration, a greater influence leading to an increased dosage and necessitated use, would seem the acquisition of tolerance. There are three subtypes, pharmacokinetic/dispositional tolerance, pharmacodynamic tolerance, and behavioral tolerance which all prove relevant in the drugs of abuse, with the exception of the stimulants (cocaine, methylphenidate, etc). Pharmacokinetic tolerance refers to the changes in substance distribution due to the bodies metabolism of the drug, while pharmacodynamic tolerance addresses the adaptive changes which have taken place within the system thereby reducing the efficacy of the drug. The final, behavioral tolerance, seems perhaps at once the most confusing and most compelling. Behavioral tolerance has to do with the learned tolerance in relation to a specific situation and it's environmental cues by which the body adapts and prepares itself thus minimizing the drugs effect ( 6). Thus the physiological dependence, or the need to administer the drug in order to maintain even a state of normalcy, is a direct result of these developed tolerances. It is the re-setting of the bodies homeostatic mechanisms in order to adapt for the effect of

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist that laid much of the foundation for Western philosophy. He was a person who sought out explanations that were unorthodox. His principles of common sense were built on naturalism and self-realization, which greatly influenced the world. His systematic concept of logic touched upon ethics. As an illustration, in the movie “Juice,” some of Aristotle’s beliefs and principles on friendship, character, and happiness are heavily portrayed throughout the film.

The movie, “Smoke Signals” is about a young Native American man named Victor. Victor grew up on a reservation. His parents, Arnold and Arlene both liked to drink and party. Arnold and his drinking habit spiral out of control. We see Arnold smack Victor and his mother around. This occurs when alcohol is involved. One morning after a night of partying Arlene wakes up to see that her son, Victor, is outside throwing beer bottles at his fathers’ truck. Arlene decides to stop drinking after witnessing this. Arlene attempts to get Arnold to quit drinking but this only puts a strain on their marriage and soon Arnold leaves. Arnold left the family when Victor was 12 years old. This abrupt departure had a tremendous affect on Victor who became increasingly angry. Victor focused his anger and attention on basketball and he was able to stay out of trouble.

The biographical film Blow (2001), directed by Ted Demme, depicts the life of American cocaine smuggler George Jung and his involvement with Pablo Escobar in the Medellín Cartel. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Jung was responsible for the majority of the cocaine that was trafficked into the United States. Narrated by George himself (Johnny Depp), the film follows a chronological sequence of events beginning with his childhood growing up in Massachusetts up until his final arrest as a result of the combined efforts of the FBI and DEA, in which he was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison.

American Psycho is a movie adaptation directed by Marry Harron released in the year 2000 that was based off of the 1991 novel of the same name authored by Bret Easton Ellis. The movie focuses on the main character Patrick Bateman who is an investment banker in New York in the era of the early 1980’s. Patrick is a perfectionist whose life by day seemingly rotates between his picture-perfect job, his superficial relationship with his fiancée Evelyn, and his shallow interaction with his co-workers and peers. By night, Patrick is a textbook Psychopath and a serial killer.

The book, Blow, tells the story of a small town boy who became a multi-millionaire through dealing cocaine for Pablo Escobar 's Medellin cartel—the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980 's. Written by Bruce Porter, the book is based on a true story and was also made into a movie, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. The book was published in the United States in 1993 by the St. Martin’s Griffin.

doesn’t make a person do anything. Sharpio believes the drug user can ignore it if they wanted to. Tolerance explains why the user has to take more but doesn’t go into detail on why the drug addict would want to stop feeling this effect. To Shapiro the key idea in the “standard view” is withdrawal symptoms. He criticizes it by an example of the highly addictive drug heroin. Pharmacologists describe withdrawal symptoms from heroin are like those having a bad flu for a week. Withdrawal syptoms often cease after a few weeks and herion users who do relaspse don’t mention withdrawal symptoms for their reason of relapsing. (Social Ethics) Another problem that Shapiro points out is that most drug users do not become addicts and very few addicts remain

Good Will Hunting is a movie about a boy that is extremely book smart, his name is Will. He grew up in not the best environment and was a janitor for the college MIT. Will does nothing with his smartness until he is caught solving a problem. After being thrown in jail he is forced to see a therapist and work on math problems with the professor. The movie shows the walls and psychological problems Will has built up and the process that he goes through to knock them all down.

Patrick Bateman is the protagonist in the film "American Psycho”. In the movie Patrick tends to show lack of empathy, he also think he is an important man or sense of self-importance. Patrick seems to believe that the fact that he has a lot of cash makes him an extremely important man. In fact, money is a facet of Patrick being that makes him better than most people, like in the movie with the home-less man. Patrick also believes that he is “special” I can only say towards this comment is that he associate with a lot of high-status people. For example, when he takes Paul Allen out for dinner, Patrick makes a show of pretending to recognize Ivana Trump at a nerdy table. In the movie Patrick show lots of envious and also think others are envious of him, his envy goes so far as to make the display of business cards at this office a tense and competitive affair. He also shows arrogant, haughty behavior and attitudes. And is shown with the first two prostitute. Patrick Bateman hallucinations cannot be accounted for by a personality disorder. Patrick imagining horrific thing happening, or imagining that they did not happen, can be explained by schizophrenia, a rare but sever mental illness. What is Schizophrenia? A server brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucination, delusions, and extremely disorder thinking and behavior. Patrick Bateman also shows an amount of hallucination as shown in the film,

The movie Falling Down portrays many examples of the movie reflecting, influencing, and changing society. The movie reflects society's many flaws such as inflation of prices and unneeded budget spending. The movie also influences others to point out society’s flaws by using force. Finally, the movie changes society by showing the movie in the point of view of a person that is classified as a realist.

Tolerance develops because of various cues in the environment as they are taking the drugs. The body tries to compensate for the effect of the drugs by doing the opposite. Let us say for instance this drug raises your heart rate, so initially your heart rate will be raised but than your body who likes to be in homeostasis will counteract the drugs effect by lowing your heart rate.

Tolerance mostly has to deal with the drug the user is addicted to and is more likely depending on the regularity of the use. While taking the drug dopamine levels rise causing a high that cannot be reached without the drug. That high is so spectacular that the user begins to feel lifeless and depressed. In time, the user begins to take larger and larger quantities of their drug. At times, even, the user might experience with other drugs causing them to take more and more different illicit drugs. Drug addicted, due to tolerance, seems like a never ending cycle with the only way of escaping is dying. Statistically, more people in the United States get help before it’s too late. About 2.6 million of the 23.5 million people in the United States get help with their addiction. Roughly 12% of addicts in the United States, which compares to the 30,000 people that die annually in the United States. These numbers are dramatically different, but the number of addicts is enormous. The number of people who actually go to a rehabilitation center for their addiction comes with the awareness of symptoms that will partake and fight against their willpower to stop.

The movie takes place in 1947, the main character John Nash arrives at Princeton. Him and Martin Hansen are both recipients of an award. The prestigious award was a Carnegie Scholarship for math. At the opening reception, he meets a group of math and science graduate students, there names were Richard Sol, Ainsley, and Bender. He even meets his roommate Charles Herman, and he’s a literature student.

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.