Great Movies About Mental Illness
Sept 17, 2021 2:54:01 GMT
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Post by kijii on Sept 17, 2021 2:54:01 GMT
Equus (1977) / Sidney Lumet based on a play by Peter Shaffer
This movie just blows me away!! I have seen the movie several times and also seen the play on stage. The story seems impossible, yet when I think about it, it is possible for an over-protected only child, raised by an overly religious mother.
The story has two dimensions, at least, viewing both the trouble with the boy and the psychiatrist who is investigating the roots of the boy's obsession.
While thinking about this movie, I started to think about..
Agnes of God (1985) / Norman Jewison.
Here is yet another strange story that plays like a detective novel. Starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly in the title role.
This movie just blows me away!! I have seen the movie several times and also seen the play on stage. The story seems impossible, yet when I think about it, it is possible for an over-protected only child, raised by an overly religious mother.
Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang (Peter Firth), the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
While thinking about this movie, I started to think about..
Agnes of God (1985) / Norman Jewison.
Here is yet another strange story that plays like a detective novel. Starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly in the title role.
When a dead newborn is found wrapped in bloody sheets in a wastebasket in the bedroom of a young novitiate, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent to stand trial for the baby's murder. While searching for the answer that her supervisors want, Dr. Livingston finds herself inevitably drawn into searching for the truth about the baby's conception and death. Despite the lack of cooperation that she receives from her own organization and the church itself, she eventually discovers more than she may have bargained for.—brado.3