TEXTS and WRITERS/DIRECTORS
(preliminary): 1. Shutter Island- Martin Scorseses
2. Split- M.Night Shyamalan
3. The Secret Window -David Koepp
4. Identity- James Mangold
EXPLAIN YOUR INITIAL REASONS FOR SELECTING THESE TEXTS I have chosen these texts because they all relate around the theme mental health. They all have characters that struggle to grasp what's real and what's not. All the characters suffer from split personality in my text.
NOTES ON TEXT ONE
• It’s hard to know what’s real for Teddy.
• The lighthouse is a mystery to Teddy and it is very intriguing so he wants to see the inside.
• When the nurse mentions to Teddy that Rachel didn’t like the food it may have been an indirect message to Dr Cawley from the nurse.
• When Dr Cawley says …show more content…
Dr Cawley went along with Teddy and his role play to help him slowly realise that he was Andrew Laeddis. And Dr Malick was letting Malcom slowly kill each personality off to only leave him with one.
• Shutter Island and The Secret Window only deal with two different personalities that the characters have no clue about.
• All the films show flashbacks of the traumatic experience that happened in their lives.
NOTES ON TEXT TWO
• Kevin has 23 different personalities.
• Kevin is treated by his psychiatrist Dr Karen Fletcher and according to her his mind is stable.
• Each personality has a chance for their turn "in the light" which means they get to control the body.
• Barry one of the many personalities choses who gets their turn 'in the light".
• Two personalities Dennis and Patricia aren't allowed 'in the light" due to Dennis' voyeuristic tendencies as well as them both worshipping the beast which is rumoured to be Kevin's 24th personality.
• Dennis pretends that he is Barry when he goes to see Dr Fletcher as the other personalities had emailed her saying they needed to talk to
(preliminary): 1. Shutter Island- Martin Scorseses
2. Split- M.Night Shyamalan
3. The Secret Window -David Koepp
4. Identity- James Mangold
EXPLAIN YOUR INITIAL REASONS FOR SELECTING THESE TEXTS I have chosen these texts because they all relate around the theme mental health. They all have characters that struggle to grasp what's real and what's not. All the characters suffer from split personality in my text.
NOTES ON TEXT ONE
• It’s hard to know what’s real for Teddy.
• The lighthouse is a mystery to Teddy and it is very intriguing so he wants to see the inside.
• When the nurse mentions to Teddy that Rachel didn’t like the food it may have been an indirect message to Dr Cawley from the nurse.
• When Dr Cawley says …show more content…
Dr Cawley went along with Teddy and his role play to help him slowly realise that he was Andrew Laeddis. And Dr Malick was letting Malcom slowly kill each personality off to only leave him with one.
• Shutter Island and The Secret Window only deal with two different personalities that the characters have no clue about.
• All the films show flashbacks of the traumatic experience that happened in their lives.
NOTES ON TEXT TWO
• Kevin has 23 different personalities.
• Kevin is treated by his psychiatrist Dr Karen Fletcher and according to her his mind is stable.
• Each personality has a chance for their turn "in the light" which means they get to control the body.
• Barry one of the many personalities choses who gets their turn 'in the light".
• Two personalities Dennis and Patricia aren't allowed 'in the light" due to Dennis' voyeuristic tendencies as well as them both worshipping the beast which is rumoured to be Kevin's 24th personality.
• Dennis pretends that he is Barry when he goes to see Dr Fletcher as the other personalities had emailed her saying they needed to talk to