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The Shining
Mental Health Related Films
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One of the best films ever made and certainly in my top 3.
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Post #10 although that is the only recommendation for it in the thread that I can see. I still can't see Jennifer Connelly in other films without thinking of a particular scene in Requiem For A Dream...
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I enjoyed Triangle a lot.
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Shine is an oscar-winning film about a schizophrenic concert pianist whose goal is to play Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano concerto.
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Shine
A brilliant film staring Geoffrey Rush (he won the Best Actor Oscar for his perfermance).
Tony Manero
A film set during the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile. The main character, Raúl, has dreams of winning the national televisions Tony Manero impersonator contest. Raúl is a psychotic serial killer who's obsession with John Travolta's character (Tony Manero) in Saturday Night Fever leads to murder and betrayel.
Taxidermia
From imdb - "Lajoska embalms his father, stuffing straw into his stomach through the holes the cats gnawed. We next see him strapped standing into an elaborate contraption in the basement of his workshop. Pumps slowly sigh, liquid flows through clear tubes, syringes dive into flesh, and trays of scalpels and other vicious medical instruments move past on articulated arms.
With the aid of mirrors, clamps and levers, Lajoska begins the exacting and painstaking work of eviscerating himself". You have to have a pretty serious mental illness to do that kind of thing.
A brilliant film staring Geoffrey Rush (he won the Best Actor Oscar for his perfermance).
Tony Manero
A film set during the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile. The main character, Raúl, has dreams of winning the national televisions Tony Manero impersonator contest. Raúl is a psychotic serial killer who's obsession with John Travolta's character (Tony Manero) in Saturday Night Fever leads to murder and betrayel.
Taxidermia
From imdb - "Lajoska embalms his father, stuffing straw into his stomach through the holes the cats gnawed. We next see him strapped standing into an elaborate contraption in the basement of his workshop. Pumps slowly sigh, liquid flows through clear tubes, syringes dive into flesh, and trays of scalpels and other vicious medical instruments move past on articulated arms.
With the aid of mirrors, clamps and levers, Lajoska begins the exacting and painstaking work of eviscerating himself". You have to have a pretty serious mental illness to do that kind of thing.
I do like these movies but you do have to watch them as films and don't think they are accurate. A beautiful mind for example was really enjoyable to watch but I then read about Nash's real life and it was completely different!
SPOILERS!
For example he never had any visual hallucinations in real life - he only sometimes heard voices, whereas in the film they make out that he saw people. Also they didn't mention the fact that he got some random girl pregnant and then abandoned her and his son, nor the fact that he divorced his wife, got fired for exposing himself in a men's toilet, and so on... Stuff like the pen sequence or him giving a nobel speech were just completely fabricated. Also he completely stopped taking medication whereas the film says he was still on it.
I don't want to get too serious and this is only one of those mentioned but it's good to know when something is so inaccurate.
SPOILERS!
For example he never had any visual hallucinations in real life - he only sometimes heard voices, whereas in the film they make out that he saw people. Also they didn't mention the fact that he got some random girl pregnant and then abandoned her and his son, nor the fact that he divorced his wife, got fired for exposing himself in a men's toilet, and so on... Stuff like the pen sequence or him giving a nobel speech were just completely fabricated. Also he completely stopped taking medication whereas the film says he was still on it.
I don't want to get too serious and this is only one of those mentioned but it's good to know when something is so inaccurate.