Movie Review
For these papers, watch a film from the list provided below depicting a topic related to mental illness and write a review of the film in terms of how it relates to abnormal psychology course content. The aim of this assignment is to get a better understanding of how mental illness is portrayed to the general public.
Each review must be a minimum of 1 page and a maximum of 2 pages long and written in 12 point font, double-spaced, with one inch margins on all sides.
Each movie review should include the following sections: (a) brief summary of the movie; (b) analysis of the movie’s (accurate and/or inaccurate) portrayal of mental illness and people with mental illness (c) personal insights and reflections you had during this assignment.
Choose films from the following list:
1. Split
2. Benny & Joon
3. Girl, Interrupted
4. Melancholia
5. Black Swan
6. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
7. Shutter Island
8. Silver Linings Playbook
9. Jacob’s Ladder
10. It’s Kind of A Funny Story
11. A Beautiful Mind
12. To the Bone
