Psychopathology In The Film, Fatal Attraction

The movie Blow is the story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s. The film starts with George as a child, showing what his childhood was like and what his relationship with his parents was like. As it progresses George grows up and moves to California. While there he become caught up in the marijuana scene and eventually starts selling it for money. George expands his market and eventually becomes very wealthy. But, George becomes too complacent and gets caught by the police and sentenced to prison. While there he meets and makes friends with Diego Delgado and learns about the drug Cocaine. Together they find a way to traffic it into the United States and again George becomes extremely wealthy.

In this sequel to stormbreaker, Alex rider gets pulled back into MI6 because they need him to investigate the murders of two billionaires whose sons just so happen to go to the same boarding school in the French Alps. Before Alex gets sent to the school he is sent to Sir David Friend’s House to get to know the family because he is going to the school undercover as David’s child. After going to the house and getting adjusted with the family and almost being trampled by a train,Alex gets sent to Point Blank. As Alex is at point Blank he notices that everyone seems to be acting weird. It’s not that they are physically acting weird but just the the way they act almost is mechanical. Except for one kid James Sprintz,Alex then befriends him. He knows

I interpret this scene as Alex being put in the same position he put his victims in. Eventually he becomes the victim and he cannot stand it .He later wakes up in the hospital after his suicide attempt and it is hinted at the end that Alex returned to his original abusive and violent

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.

Alex is a surprisingly charismatic teenager whose love for violence gets him into a handful of rough situations. He is able to commit many acts of terrible beatings and even murders with a clear conscience. Alex shows many sociopathic qualities, them being his ability to lie so very well along with his mind being incapable of remorse. While Alex goes through many life-altering experiences, his maturity is unaffected. Alex conveys many child-like qualities throughout the whole novel, such as using slang that resembles the talk of a child. Burgess also shows many of Alex’s immature qualities through symbolism and hidden meanings. Finally, Alex reveals himself to have become changed man, when he really has not changed at all. Anthony Burgess,

Alex is forced to submit to the police’s orders and is charged with murder. This is a turning point in A Clockwork Orange because Alex finally gets a taste of his own medicine. He has to deal with daily abuse from the police for two years and it is apparent that Alex is still unable to change his evil ways until he volunteers to take part in the government’s new “behavior” experiment to speed up his sentence. Alex’s ethical transformation is seen in the twenty-first chapter where he finally grows up and realizes that there’s more to life than violence (Davis and Womack). The violence in this novel is not just distasteful, but also has a comedic effect.

In addition, Longmore stated another disability stereotype that depicting disabled people as monsters express the notion that disability involves the loss of one’s humanity and the loss of self-control. So, when Alex went as far as to kidnap Ellen and attempting to kill Beth, it indicated Alex’s loss of humanity and self-control because what she did was beyond reason and restraint. Thus, Alex’s villainous, criminal deeds illustrated the notion that disability is associated with inhumanity. Also, this type of behavior further emphasize another myth Uwujawen described that mentally ill people are beyond help because the film overdramatize Alex’s mental illness by having her perform extreme, inhumane acts that should have Alex punish instead of

Prior to this moment, Alex is released from an experimental rehabilitation treatment to make him incapable of doing wrong. Alex has a solid commitment to the ideals of violence and has aesthetic pleasure he takes in his crimes. The delight he finds in classical music closely relates to the joy he feels during acts of violence and elevates his brutal behaviour. He believes evil represents a natural state for human beings. The State, who seeks to deny him of the decisions to act cruelly, encroaches on his freedom as a person. Thus, in choosing savagery, Alex ultimately affirms his sense of self. He never truly understands his entitlement. At the end of the treatment, he deprives the ability to make moral choices

The assault of an elderly lady, which ultimately leads to her death, results in Alex being violently arrested, interrogated and finally sentenced to fourteen years in prison. In prison, Alex is constantly endangered by guards and cellmates. However, after killing a fellow inmate, Alex volunteers for an anti-violence treatment called ‘Ludovico’s Technique’ which consists of associative learning. Alex is injected a substance causing nausea, while being presented with violent film sequences accompanied with classical music. Classical music being his only passion, he furiously tries to escape in order to be able to continue enjoying classical music. However, he is violently kept by the guards and ultimately learns to associate violence with nausea

Last night, Alex wanted to give his wife Christa a pleasant surprise. Instead, he ended up watching her having sex with another man in a parking garage. Yet despite being hurt and heartbroken, he did nothing to stop it, and he can't understand why.

Good Will Hunting is a good example of how someone with psychological disorders can overcome their issues through therapy. This is a classic film that was released in 1997. It was directed by Gus Van Sant, and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The key actors of this movie include Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgård, with Damon being the main character, Will. In the movie Good Will Hunting, director Gus Van Sant shows that Will suffers from psychological disorders through the use of the characters of Will and Sean, as well as the film’s color selections, and angles and shots.

Stephen King gives a mind boggling description of the insanity that lives in all of us. He believes that some are just better at hiding it that others. Horror movies can bring out that inner insanity in us to cope for holding it in and we do not even realize it. Some of the reasoning for watching horror movies are rather obvious, it is simply to show that we are not afraid and can bare the horror. Obviously you find yourself watching a horror movie for the fun of it, but is it fun? Or, is it the sinister sense inside that is satisfied when you see others imperiled? Insanity is measured by actions we as humans tend to do without even knowing.

Finally, at the end of the novel in Part Three, Alex is “cured” and has reverted back to his previous state of having a choice between being good or evil, thus acquiring that sense of free will once more.

After Alex is incarcerated, he shows no remorse for his acts. Instead, he manipulates the people around him while fantasizing about the violence within the bible. He hears about an aversion program funded by the government and acts accordingly to be picked for this type of plea bargain. Instead of spending the fourteen years in jail he is repeatedly shown acts of violence accompanied by his favorite piece of music, Beethoven’s Ninth. Instead of addressing his issues and mental state, the government attempts to alter his biological disposition to want to commit crime. Rather than enforcing that crime is wrong, they drug him to feel as if he would vomit when he is

In Depth Character Analysis on Alex Besides the protagonist in A Clockwork Orange, who is Alex? Many times we only look at main characters with an outsiders perspective. The characteristics of a character are important, but the main characters are often made to be so much more in the inside by the author. Most simply, from an outward perspective, who is Alex? What shaped Alex to be violent?