of Schizophrenia, in the patient’s first episode and currently in an acute episode (American Psychiatric Association & American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
Social, biological, cultural, and environmental factors
Curtis is a White working class man and his family resides in a rural environment and a labor/construction-based town in Ohio. Curtis and Samantha are parents to a recently Deaf child so orienting to Deaf culture is a process they are both undergoing throughout the film. Simultaneously, they are attempting to make their daughter hearing again through surgery, which adds financial and economic stress to their lives. It is implied that the family is lower-middle class, yet able to indulge in certain luxuries like an annual vacation …show more content…
Harmful environmental policies often force planners in places like Curtis’ town in Ohio to choose between economic development and healthy environments. In many smaller rural towns across the U.S., the water quality, forestry, mining, and oil digging can all impact the effects of a place on its residents’ health and well being (Hartley, 2004). Curtis’ position as a heavy construction equipment operator should not be overlooked here. Especially with regards to his recurring hallucinations involving oil-like rain droplets that vary from a yellow color to a jet black color and all have a slick texture to them. I think it is interesting to consider the connections that Curtis is making between oil as being hazardous and the imminent danger of a storm of oil droplets. His environment could impact his fear of the danger that oil spills or oil drilling can have on his family as well as his larger communities, and he could be creating this hallucination as a projection of his internalized fear of the negative impacts of oil drilling perhaps. It is also important however to note that the assertion of the image of oil may very well be the film writers’ and director’s way of inserting their personal beliefs and fears into the story as
Social, biological, cultural, and environmental factors
Curtis is a White working class man and his family resides in a rural environment and a labor/construction-based town in Ohio. Curtis and Samantha are parents to a recently Deaf child so orienting to Deaf culture is a process they are both undergoing throughout the film. Simultaneously, they are attempting to make their daughter hearing again through surgery, which adds financial and economic stress to their lives. It is implied that the family is lower-middle class, yet able to indulge in certain luxuries like an annual vacation …show more content…
Harmful environmental policies often force planners in places like Curtis’ town in Ohio to choose between economic development and healthy environments. In many smaller rural towns across the U.S., the water quality, forestry, mining, and oil digging can all impact the effects of a place on its residents’ health and well being (Hartley, 2004). Curtis’ position as a heavy construction equipment operator should not be overlooked here. Especially with regards to his recurring hallucinations involving oil-like rain droplets that vary from a yellow color to a jet black color and all have a slick texture to them. I think it is interesting to consider the connections that Curtis is making between oil as being hazardous and the imminent danger of a storm of oil droplets. His environment could impact his fear of the danger that oil spills or oil drilling can have on his family as well as his larger communities, and he could be creating this hallucination as a projection of his internalized fear of the negative impacts of oil drilling perhaps. It is also important however to note that the assertion of the image of oil may very well be the film writers’ and director’s way of inserting their personal beliefs and fears into the story as