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 Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:29 pm
As for dramatizing Raymond from Rain Man, Hollywood didn't just magically come up with this character. Raymond is a real person, who is autistic and has these abilities. They stated in the movie that Raymond was lucky, and most people with autism have trouble communicating. I don't think they really dramatized it too much. It is one of the only movies I know of that has a person with autism in it, but maybe other movies with autistic people just weren't good enough to be recognized by a broad audience.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:19 am
Darialan Love I loved Donnie Darko. Great movie and I don't think he was Schizophrenic, since he really was seeing that bunny. On the other hand his behavior in HS could indicate something. "He told me to forcibly insert the love-hate lifeline card into my a**s!" -Miss Farmer. Anyone know how different the director's cut is from the original? How about Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis. The kid was autistic. I haven't really seen any major changes with the director's cut and the original. The director's cut gives these scenes where it shows pages of the book, "Philosophy of Time Travel." It starts talking about the manipulated one, etc.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:07 am
Quote: As for dramatizing Raymond from Rain Man, Hollywood didn't just magically come up with this character. Raymond is a real person, who is autistic and has these abilities. They stated in the movie that Raymond was lucky, and most people with autism have trouble communicating. I don't think they really dramatized it too much. It is one of the only movies I know of that has a person with autism in it, but maybe other movies with autistic people just weren't good enough to be recognized by a broad audience. The man in question is Kim Peek. He has a number of savant skills, including lightning calculation and calendar memory. I'm not saying the movie was incorrect, just that because it's the only thing most people have seen regarding autism, it perpetuates the stereotype that all autistics act and look like Raymond, and all autistics have some amazing savant skill (which is untrue). Also, it looked like Raymond had a pretty hard time communicating, to me. Maybe he was not classified as low-functioning autistic because of his IQ (which is generally what is used to separate low-functioning autism from high-functioning) but he wasn't extremely high-functioning, either. In high school I met a girl who told me she was very affected by autism as a child, but she had progressed a long way, and she was able to communicate and behave (in most cases) like most other people do.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:27 am
Wasn't "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" about a mental center? Not sure any of those patients were truly mentally ill, though, as I have never seen the movie yet have heard very clashing reviews of it.
In one of those, it's said that there are mental patients, whilst another person has claimed they were all political prisoners and now my mind is twirling and twirling and twirling around and I don't know what is the right review anymore...
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I'm confusing myself.. eek
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:52 am
Maki Wasn't "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" about a mental center? Not sure any of those patients were truly mentally ill, though, as I have never seen the movie yet have heard very clashing reviews of it. In one of those, it's said that there are mental patients, whilst another person has claimed they were all political prisoners and now my mind is twirling and twirling and twirling around and I don't know what is the right review anymore... ... I'm confusing myself.. eek They filmed it at some hospital in America, I can't remember which one now but they used some of the patients both in front of and behind the camera. I heard good reviews of it as a therapeutic experience but the film itself I found kind of confusing. Having read the book and found it to be a bit of a sombre journey, to find the film was a comedy was a bit of a shock. It was quite good but the book's better.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:21 pm
dizzyjess Maki Wasn't "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" about a mental center? Not sure any of those patients were truly mentally ill, though, as I have never seen the movie yet have heard very clashing reviews of it. In one of those, it's said that there are mental patients, whilst another person has claimed they were all political prisoners and now my mind is twirling and twirling and twirling around and I don't know what is the right review anymore... ... I'm confusing myself.. eek They filmed it at some hospital in America, I can't remember which one now but they used some of the patients both in front of and behind the camera. I heard good reviews of it as a therapeutic experience but the film itself I found kind of confusing. Having read the book and found it to be a bit of a sombre journey, to find the film was a comedy was a bit of a shock. It was quite good but the book's better. You're cool. Can I have your soul? heart
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:03 pm
Another one, although it's a TV series and not a movie, is "Monk" which portays OCD. Not actually knowing anyone with diagnosed OCD, I'm not sure exactly how accurate the portrayal is, but from what I've read and heard about, it seems accurate, such as having an inability to leave things half-done. He also seems quite just like a savant as he has impeccable memory and the plot of the show is that he's an ex-police detective who can solve things simply because he understands it at a much greater level than most.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:32 am
I love Monk! smile
He also seems to have some Asperger's traits, though that's never really mentioned on the show. His impeccable attention to detail and eidic memory, as well as propensity for random facts would all fall under that category, as well as his apparent difficulty displaying empathy and understanding other people's thoughts. He also seems to have some sensory sensitivities.
I know one guy with OCD, he said he hated Monk because it pained him to watch it. He said it was because Monk was always doing all the stuff he keeps telling himself not to do.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:52 am
Keakealani Another one, although it's a TV series and not a movie, is "Monk" which portays OCD. Not actually knowing anyone with diagnosed OCD, I'm not sure exactly how accurate the portrayal is, but from what I've read and heard about, it seems accurate, such as having an inability to leave things half-done. He also seems quite just like a savant as he has impeccable memory and the plot of the show is that he's an ex-police detective who can solve things simply because he understands it at a much greater level than most. "The biscuit" in the tv-show "Ally McBeal" is autistic too. And almost all characters in that show suffer one or other mental illness... ninja
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:25 pm
I can think of Identity--DID and Niagra, Niagra--Tourette's
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:42 pm
drowning_ophelia6 I can think of Identity--DID and Niagra, Niagra--Tourette's Oh yeah, because of *possible spoiler* the guy with the multiple personalities. I didn't even think of that one.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:23 pm
I hate Donie Darko Because I have Schizophrenia and one of my visual halusinations is a six foot tall rabit. Everyone says "like Donie Darko?" I hate it. Even my Phyciatrist! My rabbit is black though and its a really looking rabit not a man in a rabbit suit.
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:48 pm
I have the movie, Pink Floyd: The Wall, which is based on there album The Wall, which is about mental illness prettym uch. in the movie, Pink, the main character, is obviously going insane, he stares into space, never talks to anyone, will get into a rage and flip out on someone randomly, and does weird things like shave all his hair off, including his cheast, head, facial hair, and eyebrows, and he is bleeding everywhere from the razor but does nothing about it....and he feels everyone and everything is part of him going psycho and wanting to build a mental "wall" and block everything and everyone from his own thoughts, like hes in his own world[another brick in the wall, is the people and things that make him want to build a wall] the movie is confusing, and i cant explain it, you just have to watch it to understand but its my favorite movie [besides friday the 13th]. i thought it was great. excpet i dontknow what mental disorder he had, but than again, i dont know much about mental illnesses. so yeah, thats a really good movie all about mental illness by Pink Floyd... xp
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:02 pm
I don't think anyone is going to agree with me but I have to bring it up.
The Exorcist
Yes they gave her a lot of medical tests and nothing would show up on those tests and a lot of the medications *they only tried, what, two/three?* didn't work.
Before she starts turning GREEN and the really freaky hollywood crap, all her symptoms to me seem like epilepsy. Even when she comes down and tells the man she's going to die and then pees on the floor.
The reason I'm saying is is just because I was born with epilepsy, but then it 'went away' when I was 8. Ever since then I would have black outs and light fainting spells, constantly edgy, you name it.
Tests upon tests upon tests shown up with nothing. The only reason they said I have epilepsy again NOW is that I was fortunate enough to actually HAVE the seizure while taking the EEG.
They seriously need to find better ways to find epilepsy sooner before it progresses as far as they let mine. Now I hallucinate and get paranoid and all kinds of horrible things, when if they would have just believed me at around age fifteen, I would more than likely be better at my age of 20 now.
That's all sorry if it doesn't match up
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:02 pm
I thought of two more movies:
"Manic"- I don't know much about the plot, just that a highschool student is sent to a mental institution after attacking a student.
And, one of my faves-
"The Aviator"- It's about an aviator/pilot who suffers enormously from OCD.
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