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Originally Posted by 33girl
DTD Alum filled me in and I'm so skipping it.  |
As of Sunday, Feb 20th, I have now seen it and yeah, it's definitely psychologically disturbing and heavy. Natalie Portman is excellent in her portrayal, but wow, it ain't no "ballet movie", that's for sure.....
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Originally Posted by tri deezy
I thought that this movie was majorly about serious mental illness. Natalie Portman's character had a very serious case of non-medicated schizophrenia. Throughout the movie, I kept thinking about the aunt of an old friend of mine who, during a psychotic episode associated with her schizophrenia, cut off her own lips with a razor blade thinking that they were filled with spider eggs. That's why I wrote about how the theme of this movie is extra creepy since it really does happen to people.
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Going into that film, I knew that schizophrenia was one of the themes in the movie, so it helped me to understand what was happening in the movie while it was in progress, otherwise, I might not have clued in initially what was happening before me on the screen. But yes, there is nothing comical about non-medicated schizophrenia, -- in one extreme case in Canada, there was an gruesome instance of murder, beheading and cannibalism aboard a Greyhound bus in July 2008 - see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Mclean