Pick a movie that portrays a character or characters who is/are experiencing a psychological disorder/mental illness. Alternatively, pick a movie that portrays an example of a certain type of therapy. Watch the movie and then please do the following:
1. Write a very brief summary of the movie. Give me some clear evidence that you watched it.
2. Write a description of how of the psychological disorder and/or the therapy that was portrayed.
3. Write a critical analysis of how accurate or inaccurate you found the portrayal of the disorder/therapy. Show evidence of your knowledge of the psychological disorder/mental illness or the type of therapy (i.e. include information from class or the text).
Guidelines:
· Your total paper should be 3-4 pages in length, typed, and double-spaced. Please format your paper as a MS Word document or pdf.
Choose a movie from the following list or choose your own (as long as you get it approved by me before you hand your paper in):
1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
4. Boys Don’t Cry
5. Benny and Joon
6. Girl Interrupted
7. Seven
8. Mad Love
9. Rain Man
10. Shine
11. A Beautiful Mind
12. Madness of King George
13. Fight Club
14. The Fisher King
15. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
16. Twelve Monkeys
17. Sybil
18. The Three Faces of Eve
19. Eating
20. The Silence of the Lambs
21. Pollock
22. Ordinary People
23. Analyze This/Analyze That
24. Final Analysis
25. Identity
26. Split
27. Black Swan