Psychological disorders affect a large number of people in the world’s population: about 450 million people have one type of disorder, or one in four people suffer from a mental illness throughout their lives.
As a result, the writers have created several protagonists who suffer from psychological disorders in the history of cinema.
- Alice: Hatter.
- Do you think I’m crazy? Hatter: crazy.
- Crazy.
- But I tell you a secret: are the best people like that?.
-Alice in Wonderland, by Tim Burton-
These disorders give the characters more complexity and wealth and show us, in some cases, aspects of the disease that we did not know about.
Thriller, drama, romantic comedy, science fiction? Here are five movies about psychological disorders of different kinds, which you may not have seen and that are worth a visit.
This film is based on an autobiographical bestseller written by Mary Jane Ward in 1946, in which she recounts the experiences she had when she was admitted to a public asylum.
Olivia de Havilland brilliantly portrays the newly married writer who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown shortly after her marriage.
This treatment ends up being worse than the ill-treatment disease and the terrible conditions to which the detainees were subjected, which contributed to aggravating their troubled mental state.
? The Tomb of the Snake? It was the first Hollywood film to talk openly about the situation of patients in postwar psychiatric institutions and was made in such a way that she was nominated for six Oscar awards for the controversy she generated at the time, won only one.
In this comedy-drama, Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) is an arrogant radio announcer who often insults listeners who call his show and ends up unintentionally leading a listener to commit a massacre in a bar, killing seven people.
The guilt associated with his narcissism precipitates emotional stress: he leaves his work on the radio and becomes a bitter man. Three years later, he meets Jack Parry (Robin Williams), an unbalanced and delusional homeless man who accidentally lost his wife in the bar massacre.
Jack is an exceptional companion of Parry, who suffers from severe post-traumatic psychosis and persecution delusions (paranoia), as well as schizophrenia.
This moving, hilarious and sensitive story of friendship between two broken men is the starting point for creating an irresistible modern fable in New York, which casts a bitter look at the paradoxes of modern life, beginning with the violence of urban stress capable of destroying lives. , oblivious to his murderous and inconsedent dementia.
Cinema has presented us with romantic comedies where there is a lot of love among people suffering from psychological disorders, proof of this are Benny and Joon: Benny (Aidam Quinn) takes care of his sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), who suffers from schizophrenia.
After losing a bet on a poker table, they are forced to live with Sam (Johnny Depp), a spoiled and flamboyant boy, but Sam, in his own way, ends up transforming their lives and Sam and Joon end up falling in love with each other.
Science fiction also takes advantage of the possibilities offered by a lack of mental stability to create fantasy worlds in this story of parallel realities and time travel.
With Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swaze, he recounts the unusual experiences of a schizophrenic and sleepwalking teenager (played by Gyllenhaal), who has great imagination and intelligence.
Donnie escapes death thanks to the appearance of a giant, demonic rabbit named Frank, who in addition to granting him supernatural powers, predicts exactly the day the world will end.
“Donnie Darko? It didn’t open in theaters because of the attack on the Twin Towers, but that didn’t stop its success afterwards.
It is a dramatic and suspenseful film about the life of Curtis LaForche, a family man who lives in a small Ohio town with his wife and daughter.
Curtis begins to have strange and apocalyptic dreams and, as his life collapses, decides to build a storm shelter in his backyard.
His visions and increasingly strange behavior make him wonder if the real reason for building the shelter is to protect his family from the dangers he feels or himself.
With these five beautiful movies, we hope you’ll go crazy, but crazy about movies!Enjoy!