①The movie Welcome to Me directed by Shira Piven, has portrayed a girl with borderline personality disorder named Alice Klieg. In the story, Alice lives by herself. It seems she only has a passion or obsession for the Oprah TV Show, and nothing else can interest her. Alice always has issue regulating her emotions. Her mood can sway very dramatically. She has an uncontrollable impulse to buy lottery tickets. There are countless stacks of lottery tickets piling on her table. It was a huge coincident that she wins the California Stack Sweepstakes lottery tickets and gets 86 million dollars. She is invited to have a talk on TV, however; her speech is cut off because it is too porny. After knowing her full speech is not presented on TV, she turns
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She even cuts off her medication in order to prove to her doctor that she can be capable and independent, and ready to become a well-loved celebrity. As a result, she decides to use the money she wins to pay for her own TV show, named “Welcome to Me”. The show solely revolves around Alice’s life. More accurately, it is a platform for her to belittle the people who had hurt her in the past, including her old doctor and a friend who used her makeup. The workers producing the show are all agitated by her absurd ideas and proposals such as neutering her dog right in front of her audiences. It does bring her money and fame; nevertheless, she is too deeply fascinated by these materials and herself becoming successful that she is losing her families, friends, and lovers. In the end, she finally realizes the pain she has caused in the people who care about her and decide to retake her medications. Yet ironically, the movie ends in a way that implies the relationships Alice have can be extremely fragile despite her desire to make …show more content…
The movie has indeed revealed the deep impact of people with mental illness on their surroundings. Neither of them could truly understand each other’s behaviors and look into their minds. Alice tends to misunderstand them and sometimes even accidentally hurt them. It reminds me of The Beautiful Mind we watched in class, where John Nash’s wife Alicia has to force herself to become such a strong woman to support her husband. Yet, she is lucky that John Nash deeply cares for her. On the other hand, in the case of Alice, it is very different. At the end of the movie, Alice tries to redeem for what she did to her friend by gifting her 70 thousand dollars. To some extents, it makes their relationship appear more fragile and
She even cuts off her medication in order to prove to her doctor that she can be capable and independent, and ready to become a well-loved celebrity. As a result, she decides to use the money she wins to pay for her own TV show, named “Welcome to Me”. The show solely revolves around Alice’s life. More accurately, it is a platform for her to belittle the people who had hurt her in the past, including her old doctor and a friend who used her makeup. The workers producing the show are all agitated by her absurd ideas and proposals such as neutering her dog right in front of her audiences. It does bring her money and fame; nevertheless, she is too deeply fascinated by these materials and herself becoming successful that she is losing her families, friends, and lovers. In the end, she finally realizes the pain she has caused in the people who care about her and decide to retake her medications. Yet ironically, the movie ends in a way that implies the relationships Alice have can be extremely fragile despite her desire to make …show more content…
The movie has indeed revealed the deep impact of people with mental illness on their surroundings. Neither of them could truly understand each other’s behaviors and look into their minds. Alice tends to misunderstand them and sometimes even accidentally hurt them. It reminds me of The Beautiful Mind we watched in class, where John Nash’s wife Alicia has to force herself to become such a strong woman to support her husband. Yet, she is lucky that John Nash deeply cares for her. On the other hand, in the case of Alice, it is very different. At the end of the movie, Alice tries to redeem for what she did to her friend by gifting her 70 thousand dollars. To some extents, it makes their relationship appear more fragile and