In the movie, “Frankie and Alice” Halle Berry plays an African American stripper named Frankie, who just happens to also have multiple personalities. She has three personalities: Frankie, a strong, intelligent stripper trying to make her way in the world. Genius, a seven-year-old little girl who is very intelligent and Alice who is a southern Caucasian woman that happen to be racist and sexist that behaves as if she’s perpetually loitering at community theater auditions, and broadcasts her contempt for the negro woman she feels cursed to have to share a body with.
Throughout the film, I learned that Frankie’s DID was caused by a traumatic incident from her childhood. It was the death of a white man name Mr. Pete that she was in love with. He …show more content…
One night the club’s employees go out for a "Girls Night". As the girls observe all the men at the bar, Frankie gets the attention of a bartender. She than agrees to go to his home for casual sex. Before the two can engage in any sexual activity, Frankie switches to an alter ego and cracks the man's head open with a picture frame. Rumors of Frankie’s violent activity spread to the strip club quickly, and Frankie is fired from the needed job. The same manic episodes occur while Frankie is at the Laundromat and a …show more content…
Through regular psychiatric sessions with her doctor, Frankie than begins remember the traumatic events that led to her split personality. She realizes that a white man with whom she was in love died in a car accident while they were on the road, within the same visit, she also uncovers the memory of the birth of her child. Moments after the birth, her mother realizes that the child is half-white and takes it away to kill it, thus triggering her personality to split.
Dr.Oz recorded the sessions he had with Frankie and decides to show her the recording. After she watches the taped sessions and puts everything together, she begins her healing process, taking control of her life and semi-integrating the personalities that Dr. Oz assures her will always be present.
I found the movie to be easier to relate to than the movie “Sybil,” set in a more modern treatment era. The therapist and other professionals are largely portrayed as caring individuals who want to help Berry’s character, who largely keep to ethical boundaries and legitimate treatment strategies. Some allowances are to be made since it is a fictional
Throughout the film, I learned that Frankie’s DID was caused by a traumatic incident from her childhood. It was the death of a white man name Mr. Pete that she was in love with. He …show more content…
One night the club’s employees go out for a "Girls Night". As the girls observe all the men at the bar, Frankie gets the attention of a bartender. She than agrees to go to his home for casual sex. Before the two can engage in any sexual activity, Frankie switches to an alter ego and cracks the man's head open with a picture frame. Rumors of Frankie’s violent activity spread to the strip club quickly, and Frankie is fired from the needed job. The same manic episodes occur while Frankie is at the Laundromat and a …show more content…
Through regular psychiatric sessions with her doctor, Frankie than begins remember the traumatic events that led to her split personality. She realizes that a white man with whom she was in love died in a car accident while they were on the road, within the same visit, she also uncovers the memory of the birth of her child. Moments after the birth, her mother realizes that the child is half-white and takes it away to kill it, thus triggering her personality to split.
Dr.Oz recorded the sessions he had with Frankie and decides to show her the recording. After she watches the taped sessions and puts everything together, she begins her healing process, taking control of her life and semi-integrating the personalities that Dr. Oz assures her will always be present.
I found the movie to be easier to relate to than the movie “Sybil,” set in a more modern treatment era. The therapist and other professionals are largely portrayed as caring individuals who want to help Berry’s character, who largely keep to ethical boundaries and legitimate treatment strategies. Some allowances are to be made since it is a fictional