Movie Analysis : ' It 's Kind Of A Funny Story '

When Joel Gilbert is Sixteen he is placed in a mental hospital because, he felt alone and needed a place where he wouldn't be discriminated or hated. After he went to a new school Joel had to make new friends and acquaintances but unfortunately he was made fun of because he was different from all the others. He was taken out of school and went to a therapist, he told the therapist he needed a place to be in a safe place, then he gets sent to a mental hospital.

He begins to act out by skipping school and, like his father, reflects on happier times shared with his mother on warm, sandy beaches. For the three of them, their saving grace is the metaphor of the “canvas,” as the mother paints on canvas to relieve her psychotic symptoms, the father wishes to fill the canvas sail with the wind of change, and the son sews patches on the ripped and tattered sail, just as their lives are in so much need of healing. Psychopathology can be defined as the scientific study and classification of mental disorders, including their biological, psychological and social causes. The classification and treatment of mental disorders varies across several professional physical and mental health disciplines including doctors, psychiatrists, chiropractors, psychologists, nurses, counselors, social workers and ministers.

The relatable Craig Gilner is in high school, “plagued by social…, academic…, and familial pressures” (Clabough 2) that give him overwhelming anxieties. Craig’s extremely self-critical, believing “everything [he has] done is a failure… and there is no hope [him]” (Vizzini 106). Indications of major depressive disorder include his self-loathing- feeling “dead, wasted, awful, broken, and useless” (Vizzini 158). It is the presence of these insecurities that are impertinent to notice because he will materialize “a plan and a solution: [he is] going to kill [himself]” (Vizzini 126). Craig believes he is “good at nothing” (Vizzini 259) and muse[s] at how [he] would kill [himself]” (Vizzini 173): Craig “suffer[s] from serious depression” (Vizzini 199). Despite his suicide plan, he sought help and after a few months of medical attention he returned to normal life as a healthy young

It also shows the life and struggles of those with autism and savant syndrome. This film is full of psychology and emotion and growth. Charlie’s father passes away, but Charlie is only left with his father’s car and collection of rose bushes. Where Charlie’s father’s money went to a person, which according to the will, cannot be named for Charlie. After some searching around Charlie found out it was his long lost brother, Raymond.

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

The whole story shows Craig going through these depression

During the whole story, Craig is struggling to get through his depression. Some barriers are being stressed from school, being a shadow to Aaron, his dad pressuring him to become someone he's not, and his love for Nia. None of the therapists, doctors, or medicine seems to be working. Their goal is to make the "shift" occur. The "shift" is what Craig refers to as his brain moving back in place where it belongs so he won't be depressed anymore. He also has "tentacles" and "anchors", Tentacles being "evil tasks that invade his life" and Anchors are things that occupy his mind and make

1) This movie is mainly about a sixteen-year-old kid named Craig Gilner. Craig is a young kid who comes from a pretty normal family, has friends, goes to school and has slightly a social life, but yet still suffers a psychological disorder recognized as depression. This disorder Craig is battling with gets him afraid he force commit suicide, so he seeks advice by going to a psychiatric facility having the mindset that he is ordered some drugs or at most treated that same day. Little did he know that he was running to be checked into the facility and had a minimum of 5 days before he could be discharged. While in this facility he encountered different types of people that helped him through his problems that also resonated with him helping

This movie is about an extremely awkward boy named Greg (Thomas Mann) and his best friend, (who he calls his co-worker) Earl, who like remaking classic films. His mom forces him to befriend a random girl from his school, named Rachel (Olivia Cooke), which the title so helpfully points out, is dying.

Upon this discovery, Craig starts to realize that he is not, in fact, an academic prodigy, he just has a lot of motivation. After he realizes this he, ironically, loses the drive he has for his work and starts to fall even further behind than he was. At this part in the book you can almost feel his heart sink as he says the words, “I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and worked hard.I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.” (Vizzini, 96). This is a very significant event in the story because the feeling of worthlessness goes hand in hand with depression, and had Craig been determined to prove that he was something special instead of just moping, maybe he could be so determined in his school work that he wouldn’t even have time to contemplate suicide, or been proud enough of his work to carry on and create something great of himself. I also believe that by doing so he would have cut some Tentacles and freed himself of the suffocating bind of deadlines and incomplete assignments, and been able to get some peaceful sleep by alleviating the troubles in the

The teen had a plan to bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw himself off of it. Instead, he decides to call 1-800-SUICIDE, where he is advised to check into a hospital and work through his problems. He does so, and enters the world of Six North, an adult psychiatric clinic not too far from Gilner’s home.

He says he says he loves his sister Sarah, His Mother, and Father. His little sister Sarah suspects something is wrong due to his behavior because it is unlike him to say, “I love you.” to his family because he is distant towards them for a good portion of the book. Craig asks his mom if he can sleep in her bedroom tonight because he feels more comforted in his mom's room when he is feeling really depressed “bad” is how Vizzini phrases it in the book. Craig decides he is going to do it very late at night preferably early morning. He cannot sleep the night before and his mother is awake as well and makes him a nice bowl of cereal because he mentioned when they both cannot sleep they will eat cereal. After Craig and his mom both finish their cereal he still cannot sleep. He is looking around and finds a book titled, “How to survive a loss of a love” and finds the suicide hotline number and he does the right thing and call them and is transferred to another line called, “Brooklyn anxiety management” because the suicide hotline was occupied and filled. They direct him to the hospital which asks if he would think if it would be best if he institutionalized himself he agrees and says

Craig has developed tremendously throughout the novel. In the beginning he was depressed, uncontent with life. However, after his recovery at the hospital he found himself and found what made him happy. He found people that accepted him for who he was. Craig was enrolled into a prestigious school for the kids that were above average. The pressure that Craig received from both his social and academic life stressed him out so much that he became depressed. Craig was lost. When the stress became too much and he wanted to die, that’s when everything had started to change. When he registered himself into the psychiatric hospital. All of the stress and the pressure had disappeared. There was no pressure to make friends or to work hard as there is

He remarked, “I encountered serious difficulties in school. I wasn’t performing to the level that I was capable of.” He claimed that it was hard for him to concentrate. And because he wasn’t sleeping well, he felt exhausted most of the time. Eventually, his grades were affected. He added, “I’ve got C’s in most of my subjects. I didn’t know what was wrong”. Feeling uncomfortable around people, James avoided his friends and family. He isolated himself from the people closest to him. He felt uneasy even when there was nothing wrong. It made him secretive hiding his problems and acting like he was fine. He didn’t make any new friends during that time or have any relationships. For him, his world shrunk to a smaller place where he survived every day wishing for something better, but not seeking the necessary medical help necessary to achieve it. I asked him, “Do you think that your behavior was unusual?” He replied, “Yes. I really felt terrible, but was too pragmatic to ever consider suicide. It was a pain that didn’t go away”. It seems that isolating himself from his loved ones was his way of coping, numbing his sadness. But eventually, it became less effective making him anxious thus he needed to seek professional help. His friends were supportive when they discovered he was having problems. He then went to a psychiatrist who gave him medications and

The brain doesn’t forget about a traumatic event. They only way to overcome it is to get treatment for it at a hospital. When you do not get the treatment it may lead to depression and suicide. The films I will be discussing are Shutter Island (2010) Martin Scorsese , The Others (2001) Alejandro Amenabar,Black Swan (2010) Darren Aronofsky and Gone Girl (2001) David Fincher. I will be discussing how these films showed the theme.