Inception Movie Psychology
One in seventeen people in America live with a serious mental illnesses. The film industry, for a very long time, has been obsessed with movies about the supernatural and evil, and have in the process managed to commodify people with mental illness. Paranormal Activity 1, 2, and 3, Jennifer’s Body, Orphan, Push and Minority Report, just to name a few, are all movies that in one way or another objectify people with a mental illness and the traits pertaining to it. Take the movie Push for example, it objectifies the traits of a mental disorder known as psychosis. It is a very serious mental disorder, and sickeningly common, effecting every three in one-hundred people. Psychosis effects the way that a person experiences and reacts to emotions,
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He is given a chance to do an “inception,” which is the planting of an idea, and he does it for a reward. This movie suggests that the brain is something that can be easily manipulated and have things planted in it so firmly that one might not even remember where it came from. The very idea behind this movie feeds off of the symptoms associated with depersonalization disorder as mentioned before. Inception made over eight million dollars at the box office. Another well known movie by the name of Push similarly feeds off of a mental disorder, but this time it feeds off of psychosis. One of the main characters in this movie feels pain that is not being inflicted upon her, which is one of the foremost symptoms of psychosis and not some supernatural power as Hollywood tries to make it. Push made over forty-four million dollars at the box office. We can even look a little bit further back to the movie Minority Report staring Tom Cruise. In the movie the futuristic justice unit known as Pre-Crime works off of these three people known as the Pre-Cogs, who have the ability to sense when people think about harming another person, and this helps society stop crimes before they happen. It may seem like a very creative idea, but in fact one of the most severe symptoms of OCD is having obsessive thoughts about harming someone who you care about. While it may seem that these two things are un-related, in the event that someone with OCD watches the movie (which is very likely considering the percentage of the population with OCD) they will be met with the idea that they are bad people because of the thoughts that they are having. Minority Report made over three hundred and fifty eight million dollars at the box office. Finally, the widely known film Paranormal Activity 3 draws from symptoms of identity disorder. In the movie a young girl by the name of
He is given a chance to do an “inception,” which is the planting of an idea, and he does it for a reward. This movie suggests that the brain is something that can be easily manipulated and have things planted in it so firmly that one might not even remember where it came from. The very idea behind this movie feeds off of the symptoms associated with depersonalization disorder as mentioned before. Inception made over eight million dollars at the box office. Another well known movie by the name of Push similarly feeds off of a mental disorder, but this time it feeds off of psychosis. One of the main characters in this movie feels pain that is not being inflicted upon her, which is one of the foremost symptoms of psychosis and not some supernatural power as Hollywood tries to make it. Push made over forty-four million dollars at the box office. We can even look a little bit further back to the movie Minority Report staring Tom Cruise. In the movie the futuristic justice unit known as Pre-Crime works off of these three people known as the Pre-Cogs, who have the ability to sense when people think about harming another person, and this helps society stop crimes before they happen. It may seem like a very creative idea, but in fact one of the most severe symptoms of OCD is having obsessive thoughts about harming someone who you care about. While it may seem that these two things are un-related, in the event that someone with OCD watches the movie (which is very likely considering the percentage of the population with OCD) they will be met with the idea that they are bad people because of the thoughts that they are having. Minority Report made over three hundred and fifty eight million dollars at the box office. Finally, the widely known film Paranormal Activity 3 draws from symptoms of identity disorder. In the movie a young girl by the name of