I don't get why schizophrenia is confused with dissociative identity disorder (multiple/split personalities). It's pretty clear that Charlie and Hank are two different "people" meaning he suffers from DID. Charlie is not delusional and he doesn't hallucinate so there's no basis for him having schizophrenia.
It's just not a good thing when movies further perpetuate myths.
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I totally agree with you. I like this movie, because it's Jim Carrey's typical schtick... but this is something I've always had a problem with. They call his disorder "schizophrenia" many, many times throughout the movie. If you want to see schizophrenia, watch "A Beautiful Mind." DID is a decidedly different condition with very, very different symptoms. I can understand one character in the movie making this error due to in-character ignorance, but I believe this was an error on the part of the writers, editors, etc.
I understand movies such as this aren't intended to educate, but still... don't fill people's head with bulls--- when you could just have easily spent 10 minutes longer researching the correct term. It would not have affected the plot of the movie *at all* to call his condition DID (it was likely called MPD at the time), but would have made it so much more accurate.
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I agree fully. In fact, I couldn't have said it better myself. I do understand that the plot of the movie itself was making light of an unfortunate disorder, but they could have at least done so accurately.
In fact, I watched it recently with a friend who has a form of schizophrenia. During the movie, my friend noted, "Don't worry - I don't do any of that stuff!" Later that day, I kind of thought about it for a second, and realized that Hank/Charlie wasn't even showing signs of schizophrenia, but rather DID instead.
This is a HUGE plot hole on the part of the writers. And a very unfortunate one.
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You mean a slap-stick comedy full of sight gags was not 100% medically accurate? Who'da thunk. And all this time I have based all my medical diagnosis on goofy comedies.
shareGranted, a low-brow comedy isn't going to be medically accurate. And I get that. But they didn't have the right disorder at all. It might be different, and maybe not as many of us would be up in arms, if they at least had the correct disorder with some inaccuracies thrown in. That's how a lot of movies are. But they deviated completely from the disorder itself and mistook one for another. That's a pretty big mistake.
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It's not a huge plot hole. It's not even a plot hole. It is a factual error, and it was probably done intentionally so they could say "advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage" a bunch of times, for comedic value.
shareALL movies 'perpetuate myths'. Name one that doesnt.
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shareIt's not a great movie anyway
share'Schizo' is a slang term used for 'Crazy', 'Psycho', 'nut job' and of course 'mood swinger'. When other characters, like Irene, refer to Charlie as a 'schizo', it is just a blanket, slang term for 'Charlie is mentally unstable'.
The 'illness' Charlie has is not a true medical condition, though Schizophrenia is, and delusions/narcissism can be traits within such a disorder. I think the whole thing is a joke, and they were not trying to be accurate, or perpetuate any myths. DiD is not something the average viewer would know of, so the more colloquial term 'schizo' and 'schizophrenic' was used.
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DiD is not something the average viewer would know of, so the more colloquial term 'schizo' and 'schizophrenic' was used.
schizophrenia is easy to say and sounds "funny". Not many people are aware of DID and all that it entails. "Schizo" worked for the comedy bit.
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It's an old Hollywood stereotype that's been around for years and seeped into popular culture. Ask the common person on the street and most people will tell you that someone who is schizophrenic has multiple personalities...sad but true.
"Sir Ian McKellen? That dude must be knee-deep in boob."
Thank you, I got it a bit wrong in my other post, Dissociative Identity Disorder is just something a bit difficult to remember compared to the old 'Split Personality'. Everything has to be a 'disorder' now, and every formerly easy-to-understand, intuitive term has to be as bureaucratic and cumbersome as possible.
So we go from 'manic-depression' (easy to understand) to 'bipolar disorder' (in another language, this is 'two-directional mind-mood-disruption' now.. now THAT is insanity! The new term, I mean)
I can't believe the amount of people that actually applaud the new terminology hell, when the old system was so much better. In 2000, 'Schizophrenia' and 'Split Personality' were commonly the same thing, at least to laymen. Of course psychiatry had to mess up everything and now things are very close to impossible to decrypher. Anything to confuse the layman, I guess.. ordinary people understanding what's wrong with a patient? That won't do at all!
We have to make it a bureaucratic hell, so the name doesn't reflect the illness anymore! That'll show 'em we're more intelligent and sophisticated than ordinary people, because we sucked in 'medical definitions' for multiple years in a row and got a title to prove it!
Yeah.. that's the ONLY thing about this movie I actually like; they properly call 'Split Personality' a 'Schizophrenia'. I miss the older, simpler times, when things were this easy. Nowadays 'Schizophrenia', 'Schizoid', 'Schizotypal', etc. mean so many things, good luck trying to understand it all.
P.S. I won't edit my other post, just to leave it as an example of how confusing the new terminologies are, I can't even keep up with them.