Fatal Attraction
"Fatal Attraction" is a psychological film directed by Adrian Lyne and starred by Michael Douglas as Dan Gallagher and Glenn Close as Alex Forrest (Rebaza, n.d.). In the story, Michael Douglas portrayed the role of a lawyer who was happily married for nine years (Ebert, 2013) and his marriage with his wife was blessed with a 6-year-old daughter. He loves his wife very much and he had no particular problems with his wife until the day that he met an intriguing blond, Glenn Close, at a business party (Jaffe, Lansing, Lyne, 1987). When the wife of Douglas and their daughter went out of town to visit his in-laws, he grabbed the opportunity of being free and invited Glenn Close to dinner (Ebert, 2013). Eventually, they found out that they are sexually compatible. Time came that Douglas became guilty and has decided to end his infidel relationship with Close. Glenn Close became pathological (Jaffe, Lansing, and Lyne, 1987), thus the start of the latter’s nuisance behaviors.
Diagnosis
According to DeFife (2010), DSM-V has simplified DMS-IV by cutting the old ten personality types to just five: (i) …show more content…
Psychologists have different definitions in order to define abnormal behavior. The movie depicted abnormal behavior in that Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) stalked, tormented and even threatened her one-night stand lover. However, the movie "Fatal Attraction" gives us an idea of what it means to suffer from borderline personality disorder and how people behave when they suffer from such disorder. People with borderline personality disorders must not be viewed as bad persons who wanted to inflict pain when what they want are not given to them. Instead, they should be seen as people who need help. It is through better understanding of this disorder that people who suffer from such are not judged but are extended with the kind of help they
"Fatal Attraction" is a psychological film directed by Adrian Lyne and starred by Michael Douglas as Dan Gallagher and Glenn Close as Alex Forrest (Rebaza, n.d.). In the story, Michael Douglas portrayed the role of a lawyer who was happily married for nine years (Ebert, 2013) and his marriage with his wife was blessed with a 6-year-old daughter. He loves his wife very much and he had no particular problems with his wife until the day that he met an intriguing blond, Glenn Close, at a business party (Jaffe, Lansing, Lyne, 1987). When the wife of Douglas and their daughter went out of town to visit his in-laws, he grabbed the opportunity of being free and invited Glenn Close to dinner (Ebert, 2013). Eventually, they found out that they are sexually compatible. Time came that Douglas became guilty and has decided to end his infidel relationship with Close. Glenn Close became pathological (Jaffe, Lansing, and Lyne, 1987), thus the start of the latter’s nuisance behaviors.
Diagnosis
According to DeFife (2010), DSM-V has simplified DMS-IV by cutting the old ten personality types to just five: (i) …show more content…
Psychologists have different definitions in order to define abnormal behavior. The movie depicted abnormal behavior in that Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) stalked, tormented and even threatened her one-night stand lover. However, the movie "Fatal Attraction" gives us an idea of what it means to suffer from borderline personality disorder and how people behave when they suffer from such disorder. People with borderline personality disorders must not be viewed as bad persons who wanted to inflict pain when what they want are not given to them. Instead, they should be seen as people who need help. It is through better understanding of this disorder that people who suffer from such are not judged but are extended with the kind of help they