The movie Sybil, based on a book, portrays a powerful and rather accurate picture of a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID). The book by Flora Rheta Schreiber was actually made into two movies, one in 1976 (the one I’ll be discussing) and another in 2007, which was remade into a docudrama. This movie […]

  Parenthood is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the relationship between parents and their children and the struggles of parenthood. This movie focused on the lives of four siblings and their families; Gil and Karen, Susan and Nathan, Helen, and Larry. Four different parenting styles were explored in this movie; authoritarian, authoritative, uninvolved, and […]

The Fisher King tells the story of two men suffering from a psychological disorder; Jack Lucas suffering from depression and Parry suffering from schizophrenia and post traumatic stress disorder.  It’s a movie about redemption. This movie infused elements of the famous Fisher King myth. There are plenty of versions of this myth. One of it […]

The Castle is a movie about the Kerrigan family who are forced by the Government to vacate their home. Although it was a low budget movie, there’s nothing low budget about the value that is passed on; it’s not a house, it’s a home. To me, this movie passes on the message of the importance […]

Sixth sense also known as extrasensory perception is one’s ability to perceive dimensions of ghosts. In The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan, the fear of having a sixth sense, fear of the unknown was a central theme in this movie. The film focused on learning how to communicate those fears, as seen in the […]