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Split Movie Analysis

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The movie I watched for this assignment was Split from 2017. This movie displays the mental disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID) or also known as Multiple Personality Disorder(MPD). This disorder is a disconnection of a person’s brain that controls our personality to or actions, caused by multiple of things most common is when a person experiences a horrid situation or past. During movies directors change the way mental illnesses and disorders actually are in reality to appeal to the audience they are trying to reach. In Split, the main character, Kevin Wendell Crumb suffers from having twenty-three different personalities. Each personality having very different ways of reacting and different strengths and weakness. In the beginning of the movie you don’t realize he has multiple personalities, Kevin or Barry, (the personality being presented at the time) jumps in a car with a few teenagers not acknowledging them until they freak out because he won’t get out the car. Barry stays calm and gases two of the three girls, until the third girl tries to escape, then …show more content…

In reality DID doesn’t have different personalities, the person is still themselves just out of character. This movie portrays DID as a disorder that can not get better, and that therapy doesn’t help. In this idea of how the directors portrayed the disorder, I would change it to be more accurate during the therapy sessions. During the therapy sessions during the movie the therapist would know which personality was which by the different characters and the way they reacted to different small things. Often switching personalities during the movie you can see that he communicates between two personalities, while his conscious self is unaware of what’s going on. Going to therapy for DID, his therapist talks to his different personalities, but rarely talks to the actual personality of

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