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Psychopathology In The Film, Fatal Attraction

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The film, Fatal Attraction is a clear depiction of the psychopathology showcased by the character, Alex. Alex becomes a stalker following her one-night-strand with a successfully married businessman, Dan. Following the affair, Alex vowed to make Dan quit his family by doing everything within her reach. First she attempted suicide as we see she cut her wrist to bar Dan from going to his family. However, when Dan finally rejects her opinion, she advances fierce threats to Dan including kidnapping Dan’s daughter, Ellen. Alex would never stop as she even waited Alex at his office to apologize and further extend her invitation to the opera, Madama Butterfly but she is again turned down raises her rage. Further, she calls Dan’s office stalking Dan’s …show more content…

Alex actions meet the symptoms and of the borderline personality disorder, thus explains the Psychopathology aspects in the movie (Sansone & Sansone, 2010). Her stalking feature would never stop despite her failed earlier attempts. Alex managed to show up at Dan’s apartment, where she officially met Beth, pretending to be interested in buying the apartment. Dan could never hold his anger and decided to confront Alex at her apartment later that night with Alex reaffirming that she would stop at nothing to see her not being neglected by Dan. In response to Alex unbecoming actions, Dan decided to relocate his family to New York village of Bedford hoping to get rid of Alex actions. However, this escalated the situation as Alex arranges for an abusive taped delivered to Dan in his new residential village. Moreover, Alex stalks Dan at the garage pouring acid on his lover’s vehicle as well as following him at home one night as she spied on Dan, Beth and Ellen from the bushes in Dan’s yard. Indeed, the sight of Dan’s family life literally culminated to Alex’s sickness to her stomach escalating her obsession further. Further, Dan approaches a police to seek a restraining order against his one-night-stand lover as he claimed the order would be for a client. Unfortunately, the police lieutenant turned him down as he claimed his inability to violate Alex’s right without the probable cause,

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