Dream House Schizophrenia Analysis

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Dream house Is an incredible movie that shows both aspects of a schizophrenia patient and the Bias connotations that comes with schizophrenia. Firstly, the Movie starts by showing a man named Will attention who is leaving his job to go back home to his family to spend more time with them. Throughout the movie it showed him that when he arrived, he was happy to see his wife and his two daughters. As joyful and playful his two little girls were, they were hiding under a white sheet to surprise their father. As the movie continues, it appears that one day one the girls kept seeing a man at the window. But Will the father couldn't see the man, neither could the wife. Another time the same situation occurs and this time it appears that

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