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Abnormal Psychology Movie Paper...

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So I have to write a paper on a movie that exhibits abnormal psychology (Fight Club won't be accepted).

Any suggestions?
 
Didn't Kubrik's Mechanical Orange have something to do with this? (I saw it like a million years ago, so I may be waaay off)
 
Vertigo
Psycho
Adaptation
Donnie Darko
A Beautiful Mind
Garden State
Manhunter
Taxi Driver
Red Dragon
Hannibal
Dr. Strangelove
Naked Lunch
Sunset Boulevard
Se7en
American History X



and when i think of more i will add them
 
Psycho????
12 Monkeys
Girl Interupted
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Anything by the Farelly Brothers
 
mac-convert said:
Silence of the Lambs was the first one that came to mind
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The only problem is, phungy may want to stay away from the horror movie ones. I personally have not seen a Hannibal Lector movie, nor do I care too. The eeriness and the topic of cannibalism is just....*shudders*
 
Wow...

Wow! Thanks guys, I don't know why I didn't think of these. Guess I had a mind block or something but great suggestions. I love most of them too. Now comes the tough part, choosing which one 😀
 
phungy said:
Wow! Thanks guys, I don't know why I didn't think of these. Guess I had a mind block or something but great suggestions. I love most of them too. Now comes the tough part, choosing which one 😀
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Depending on when it's due, you may want to watch all of them to decide. 😛
 
How about "Stir of Echoes", or something like that, with Kevin Bacon.

8MM?

Basic Instinct

Fatal Attraction

Falling Down

(and I'm not even a Michael Douglas fan! )
 
i think something that moves away from looking at "traditional" abnormal psychology (like "Psycho") to something that looks at a more obtuse or tangential kind of abnormal psychology (like "Dr. Strangelove" - "there is no fighting in the war room!") would be a much harder, but much better paper to write.
 
dsnort said:
I thought about Gothika, but isn't it more paranormal?
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I kind of think it's both. There are certainly some psychological elements to the movie (Halle Berry is a psychologist who is presumed to have gone off the deep end). But may or may not be the best movie for what phungy is looking for.
 
benthewraith said:
The only problem is, phungy may want to stay away from the horror movie ones. I personally have not seen a Hannibal Lector movie, nor do I care too. The eeriness and the topic of cannibalism is just....*shudders*
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True, true...

Second thought (after thinking about it) 🙄

Rain Man
 
benthewraith said:
I kind of think it's both. There are certainly some psychological elements to the movie (Halle Berry is a psychologist who is presumed to have gone off the deep end). But may or may not be the best movie for what phungy is looking for.
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Yeah, great movie though.
 
shecky said:
i think something that moves away from looking at "traditional" abnormal psychology (like "Psycho") to something that looks at a more obtuse or tangential kind of abnormal psychology (like "Dr. Strangelove" - "there is no fighting in the war room!") would be a much harder, but much better paper to write.
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I agree he should stay away from using the movie Psycho, as a teacher discussing abnormal psychology, Psycho would be on the list of do not write, if you do automatic F as I could not stand reading thousands of papers about Psycho (granted I'm sure they're mostly read by TAs). But if there are five TA's for a teacher, and 400, 500 students in a class...ouch.
 
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