The Silver Lining

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…

Mental health, as defined by the WHO, is a state of well-being in which a person is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stress of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community (Halter and Varcarolis, 2014). While this is an official definition, it is not necessarily what the media and the public think of mental disorders. Mental illness is portrayed mostly negatively in the media with individuals show as dangerous, incompetent, crazy, etc.…

There are many principles that are viewed by an Interactionist, such as the way people interpret and give meaning to behavior, the process of labeling, communication and understanding with and of others, etc. Through analyzation of the movie Silver Linings Playbook, the Interactionist’s perspective seemed most appropriate. The main characters, Pat and Tiffany, go through a period of everyday face-to-face interaction and in the end help each other discover themselves as well as fall in love,…

Silver Linings Playbook tells the story of Pat, a former substitute history teacher with bipolar disorder who returns to his parents’ home after eight months in a mental hospital for beating up his wife 's lover, following a meltdown after his marriage broke up, and is determined to reconcile with his wife. Pat 's bipolar disorder manifests in ways that are realistically, even heartbreakingly ordinary; Pat attempts to control his mania with long jogs and rants about Hemingway. Yet the film has…

Silver Linings Playbook is a film about a developing love story between the two main characters Tiffany and Pat. They develop a relationship through their shared struggles of mental illness and help each other deal with their symptoms indirectly. The theme of mental illness and the way that it gets in the way of normative functioning is a reoccurring theme within the film. Pat’s father deals with his own struggles of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which hinders his ability of normative…

The movie Silver Linings Playbook, was released in 2012 and was written and directed by David O. Russell. In this movie, there are many things that can be analyzed. This movie falls under the genres of comedy, drama, and romance. It was also based off of the book The Silver Linings Playbook, which was written by Matthew Quick. The entire movie is filled with beautiful moments that engage the audience to look at the world and the people within it a little differently. This movie’s target audience…

Jenna Yun Mr. Leckey AP Psychology Period 6 10/30/15 AP Psychology Extra Credit Movie Quarter 1 Overall, my thoughts on the film, The Silver Linings Playbook, were positive. I found it interesting that the author decided to connect mental disorders and dancing together. The fact that Pat, played by Bradley Cooper, and Tiffany, played by Jennifer Lawrence, were able to overcome their mental illnesses by dancing together was significant. In addition, the movie showcased the…

The movie Silver Linings Playbook is a Hollywood portrayal of characters who are trying to deal and cope with mental illness. The movie surrounds a young man named Pat who was recently discharged from a mental hospital after spending eight months there for beating up his wife’s lover. While at the hospital, Pat was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, something that he was unaware of having. Pat was allowed to return home to his family as long as he continued his medications and weekly therapy…

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have been repeatedly displayed on the big screen with these stereotypical cliché behaviors, and used as the focal point, or “hero” of the movie. Silver Lining Playbook is not just another one of Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of mental illness. However, discrepancies are inevitable when the story line plays a greater precedence over accuracy. Silver lining Playbook depicts the breaking point of a family unit, where a father and son struggle to accept the other, and a mother constantly seeks…