Psychological Review of the Movie “Clean, Shaven” (1993). Introduction Clean, Shaven, directed by Lodge Kerrigan and released in 1993, is a psychological thriller that offers a chilling insight into the sufferings of an individual with schizophrenia through the point of view of it’s protagonist, Peter Winter. Through the movie, we accompany Peter, as he looks for his estranged daughter whilst battling with hallucinations and paranoia, who we later discover has recently been released from a psychiatric institution. His journey is fraught with confusion, disconnection from reality, and intense paranoia, reflecting his deteriorating mental state. Psychological Themes The central psychological theme of the movie is schizophrenia, which is a severe …show more content…
He succumbed to paranoia, and auditory hallucinations and delusions. He believes that he is being watched and controlled and that the psychiatric facility has implanted transmitters and chips into him. The viewers are immersed into Peter’s distorted sense of reality and we see that these delusions manifest as violent outbursts and self-harm that he indulges in due to the belief that devices are embedded in his …show more content…
We see that Peter is referred to as ‘the scariest man’ or like a ‘weirdo’ in the movie, which correlates to how people with disorders, and schizophrenia more specifically, are often marginalised and seen as someone who should be feared or avoided. Additionally, Peter’s inability to access adequate psychiatric care, along with his lack of a support system, reflects systemic failures in mental health services, which can lead to the worsening of symptoms and a greater risk of self-harm or harm to others. The depiction of Peter’s symptoms provides an insight into the emotional toll that individuals with the disorder go through, and helps us in a way break the barrier and empathise with them rather than alienating
on the perceived trustworthiness of a male face as seen in a candidate profile. Participants (N = 100) assessed either the candidate profile that showed a photograph of a bearded candidate or the candidate profile that showed a photograph of a clean shaven candidate. The information in both candidate profiles was kept constant except for the independent variable (facial hair). The profiles included a job description, the name of the candidate, education level, and work experience. After reading the
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Tennessee to Connie McHugh and Tony Tarantino. The family lived in Los Angeles, CA but the parents divorced early in their marriage and Connie took Quentin back to Tennessee. They lived there until Connie graduated from nursing school. Then they moved back to California when Quentin was three years old. Connie married two more times and both of her husbands took her son to films and movies. Sometimes the movies had adult and violent themes for
In May of 2000, Mary Stephens was shot to death while on in Jacksonville, Florida in what was presumed to be a robbery attempt. With her at the time was her husband, James Stephens who was the sole eyewitness to the crime. He gave a description of the assailant to the first uniformed officer on the scene. This description would later be repeated in court as follows: Black male, shorts that went down to the knees, a dark shirt with no logo, and hat with "narrow brim". Mr Stephens also testified that
than Milly. She greets Tony with a warm invitation, "My dear Tony." Unity does not want Tony to marry Milly so she criticizes her and flatters herself, "I should have made 'ee a finer wife" Unity likes to put Tony on the spot by using reverse psychology, "can you say I'm not pretty," knowing that he will not want to upset her by disagreeing with her. When Tony asks unity to marry him she turns him down because she knows that he licked Hannah more, although if he would of asked her first she
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seen battling contrasting elements of his own personality to try to satisfy others. This separation in David’s identity, as stated by scholar Mae G. Henderson, can be attributed to, “Baldwin's idea of identity, based as it is on a model of depth psychology and the accompanying notion of interiority,
On a chilly afternoon in late 1977, a young, newly-wed woman of 26 was dropped off at her Volkswagen Beetle by her sister-in-law. Her name was Gini McNair. She waved goodbye to her companion, unlocked the driver's door, and stepped into her vehicle. Sitting at the wheel, with the key in the ignition, she glanced around the deserted Boulder Canyon Road located outside of Boulder, Colorado. While waiting for her dusty red Volkswagen to warm up, she saw another one, light blue, heading down Sugarloaf