The Silver Lining Playbook, is a motion pictured film produced by David Russel that portrays the lives of two individual that have suffered or in a sense struggled with a mental/psychological disorder. The male lead character Patrick Solitano Jr. (played by Bradley Cooper) is a former teacher who after finding his wife, Nikki in a compromising position with another man, has a violent episode brought on by his un-diagnosed bipolar disorder where he practically beat the man close to death. After which he was institutionalized where his symptoms then started to become worse which included having paranoid delusions of his life. Silver Lining Playbook starts when Pat is being discharged from the psychiatric institution per request of his mother
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The disorder can cause the individual to go from one mood to the next leading to episodes that range from depression to mania depending on the circumstances. The feeling of mania can make one feel irritable to impulsive which in the film for example; you see the male lead Pat clearly showcasing many different type of moods and episodes that range from when he shows frustration and rage in the doctor’s office after hearing a song that related to the incident with his wife adulterous affair to expressing aggression, where in Abnormal Psychology defines as “showing hostile or violent behavior or attitudes towards another (Comer, 572)” when they talk about his incident of almost beating to death the man a fellow teacher who he caught his wife in the compromising position. His delusions are also expressed when in the film it is brought to attention that the week prior to the shower incident, he called the police on Nikki believing her and this fellow teacher were planning something against him. An interesting aspect that can been seen is in the film, the audience finds out that Pat’s father Patrick Sr. was involved in a fight during a football game that lead to him being bad …show more content…
This grand delusions of his getting back to his wife Nikki could be due to him stopping his prescribed medications as his motivation throughout the film is related to him finding a way to get back with her or for her to want to converse with him. Look towards his meeting the female lead Tiffany, which only occurred because of Pat agreeing to attending a dinner party with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica even though he knows Veronica doesn’t care for him, but happens to be Nikki best friend, something he sees as a way to get Nikki attention if Veronica believes him to be better. Where once Pat and Tiffany have meet during the dinner party, where we come to learn more about Tiffany’s character who on top of her depression resulting from her husband’s untimely death but is also struggling with a personality disorder to be exact, borderline personality disorder (BDP). Which is a disorder that individuals suffer from thoughtless and reckless acts, shaky relationships, having issues with emotions and thought process. Further into the dinner party, Pat and Tiffany discuss the type of medications they were prescribed which included: Lithium, Abilify and Seroquel, which are all considered to be depressants which can cause an individual’s nervous system to slow down as
The disorder can cause the individual to go from one mood to the next leading to episodes that range from depression to mania depending on the circumstances. The feeling of mania can make one feel irritable to impulsive which in the film for example; you see the male lead Pat clearly showcasing many different type of moods and episodes that range from when he shows frustration and rage in the doctor’s office after hearing a song that related to the incident with his wife adulterous affair to expressing aggression, where in Abnormal Psychology defines as “showing hostile or violent behavior or attitudes towards another (Comer, 572)” when they talk about his incident of almost beating to death the man a fellow teacher who he caught his wife in the compromising position. His delusions are also expressed when in the film it is brought to attention that the week prior to the shower incident, he called the police on Nikki believing her and this fellow teacher were planning something against him. An interesting aspect that can been seen is in the film, the audience finds out that Pat’s father Patrick Sr. was involved in a fight during a football game that lead to him being bad …show more content…
This grand delusions of his getting back to his wife Nikki could be due to him stopping his prescribed medications as his motivation throughout the film is related to him finding a way to get back with her or for her to want to converse with him. Look towards his meeting the female lead Tiffany, which only occurred because of Pat agreeing to attending a dinner party with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica even though he knows Veronica doesn’t care for him, but happens to be Nikki best friend, something he sees as a way to get Nikki attention if Veronica believes him to be better. Where once Pat and Tiffany have meet during the dinner party, where we come to learn more about Tiffany’s character who on top of her depression resulting from her husband’s untimely death but is also struggling with a personality disorder to be exact, borderline personality disorder (BDP). Which is a disorder that individuals suffer from thoughtless and reckless acts, shaky relationships, having issues with emotions and thought process. Further into the dinner party, Pat and Tiffany discuss the type of medications they were prescribed which included: Lithium, Abilify and Seroquel, which are all considered to be depressants which can cause an individual’s nervous system to slow down as