The Fisher King Movie Analysis

Mental illness is in a lot of the movies I have watched, to narrow down the interpretations is a challenge. Movies depict mental illness as a drama in most ways, it is painful, dark, and sad. Mental illness is hard to predict and a challenge to heal, in most ways mental illness starts from a bad childhood experience or a bad experience in general. The movies that I remember most are The Fisher King, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Prince of Tides, Awakenings, Clockwork Orange, and Leaving Las Vegas. When looking at a list of movies with mental illness, there are so many that a person couldn’t talk about them all, I believe that, The Fisher King would be my favorite. The movie depicted a very realistic idea and portrayed it very well, it is …show more content…
The narrator first appears to be depressed and withdrawn, she then begins having panic attacks about the wallpaper, she becomes paranoid with mood swings, and finally she ends with extreme hallucinations. The narrator really pulls the reader in and has the reader feeling these emotions and stages. The wallpaper represents her mental stability, it is her psyche and the process that her mind is going through in the breakdown. In the end she is so interested in the women because it is her she is seeing, although unaware of that fact. Her mission is at first to help her escape but then changes to becoming imprisoned with …show more content…
Gilman was divorced from her husband and let him raise their daughter with his new wife, which proves that she did not care for him. Divorce I imagine was very uncommon in 1885. (MLM 232) For the fact that Gilman does not directly refer to the physician by name is mostly caused by the fact that it would make her appear vindictive and maybe even be seen as libel. Mitchell’s opinion of his “rest cure” does not affect my interpretation of the story at all, her view is so much more powerful that his lecture that followed “The Evolution of the Rest