Write a film critique explaining how well both disorders were portrayed throughout the film.

Sybil

Critique Assignment

We will be watching the film Sybil in class. This film covers the true story of a woman who was plagued with both Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder. She lived in a household with an abusive mother and a neglectful father. Religion also stifled the parents from bringing Sybil or her mother to a psychiatrist.

Write a film critique explaining how well both disorders were portrayed throughout the film. The critique should include the following:

A brief explanation of Sybils background and story

At least two events in the film that portray schizophrenia

At least two events in the film that portray dissociative identity disorder

A conclusion about whether or not the film was effective in portraying the realities of the disorders

Each item is worth 6 points. I expect basic spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness. Rubric on following page:
Notes ….

Fugue state when you move from one place to the next but dont know how you got there.

The noise of the swing screeching is a sign of the disorder, sybil watched the old lady push the kid on the swing and it triggered her memory of when her mother hanged her up on a pully system in their garage. She then discovered classic fugue where she went from one place to another (the park by the swings when playing follow the leader to standing in the pound).

The piano music increased as sybil climbed the stairs. The sound of the piano caused sybil to have another flashback to when her mother played the piano. She would look at clocks because they calmed her down, however breaking glass helps her go back to being herself. She was forced to listen to the same 3 songs.

Art work of a light bulb, piano music, and knifes.

When sybil was a child she had her tonsils removed, the doctors explained everything that was going to happen. But sybil asked the doctor to take her home, the doctor left her mom entered and the room. Sybil went and pounded on the glass

Can her other personalities be aware of the breaking glass?

A man peering through her window could be classified as creepy, but the man likes her, he has a son that has the most concern for sybil in the film.

The doctor asked sybil to smell different things, stuff like the smell of eurther took her back to the doctor not helping her when pounding on glass.

Sybil says she once woke up and was 2 years older, she wanted to be a teacher, she substitutes teaches. She says it never happened in front of the children and says it is getting a lot worse. She is afraid to be touched. The doc says the tunnel vision and blackout are involved in the fear sybil is going through. Sybil says nothing scares her and that she doesnt cry tears like people do.

Her dad remarried after her mother died and they all went out to eat, sybil anoccess her illness to her dad at the dinner table, sybil says that until she can fit perfect in the world she cant fit perfect in her dads house. The dad believes the doc sybil is seeing is the devil. Sybil leaves the restaurant as her dad yells her name.

hadi is her mother that passed when she was younger, her father belongs to a group of people through the church. Sybil lives in new York while the new wife and the dad

the curch that the dad goes to believes tht anyone whom deals with a mental illness is taking part with the devil.therefore the dad believes she is seeing a devil worshiper, the mother hurt her, the grandmother was also abused by hadi, the dad left everyday to work.

Sybil lys in bed as all her personalities fight inside her head. Staten hotel 136. Viki called the doc but sybil says she doesnt have a friend Viki. Sybil Says shes not sybil as she was having a panic attack. She tends to refer to herself as the 3rd person, she says the doc is very far away. She tends to memorize the people with what they wore when they first saw her. She then breaks the glass and continues to talk in the 3rd person.

Personalities sybil has multiple personalities

Most people thought the doctor wanted to make money off sybil but she was doing it to help her.

The guy from the window happens to drive a horse and carriage in new York, he doesnt realize all her personalities though.

Sybil as Viki says she refuses to have fun is afraid of people, she says sybil and peggy are afraid of hands. Sybil ask the doc what love is.

Viki says sybil is not going to live much longer, she thinks that Marsha is going to kill sybil (Marsha is a personality)

The doc says By Sybil drawling her dreams in silence she feels no one can east drop on her,

Marsha, viki, sybi (Body), Venessa (Piano), mike. sid

Danny (outcast and dance) a friend makes sybil smile and happy

The dude in the window trys to get sybil to go out downtown but sybil has her personality Venessa go out. The child Mathew picks up that sybil saied home and she has a different personality. They go downtown on the ssubway as the dude from the window tells a story about jane his love that died. Sybil takes his hand and puts it on her face then kisses the dude from the window. Sybil then stands and watches him play guitar as she sees a shoe hook that a lady is holding, and it triggers her because her mother use to use a shoe hook to sexually abuse her. Sybil then walks away saying I cant tell you I cant tell you. The dude runs after to make sure she is ok she said I need to break glass he then checks on her to find out that she is ok. He walks her home and trys to hold her hand but she spazes out and closes the door on her.

The doc plays the piano with Vennesa, and it brings out peggy (personality), then wants to be called sweety says she has dish towels tied on her, she then says the hands and then she breaks glass saying she was in the kitchen with the lights and the piano, she draws a picture of her mother thinking shes on her way to hurt her.

The doc sits down and shows a photo she drew as peggy and then shows her music she played as venessa and then she heres herself as her mother and goes into baby mood crawled up into a ball sucking her thumb. She finally comes out and becomes sybil again.

Marsha thinks about suicide, sybil hasnt invited window dude over for christmas dinner. There are guards around the place the other personalities wont allow her to voice.

The doc puts her to sleep asked when the purple happened it was when she was 5 nice in grandmas room and has her count with her cuts out a picture of santa she doesnt have to worry about yelling when with grandma. Her mother yells having her go back down stairs, as she walks downstairs the mother trips her and says grandma what big ears u have, the mother repeats a bunch of ryming words and she takes the lettuce and chops it like she is beheading someone spilling out a bunch of word salad while making cookies.

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A brief explanation of Sybils background and story

___ A brief, and concise explanation of Sybils background

___ A brief, and concise explanation of Sybils story

___ Spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Explanation of Sybils background is missing a few pieces of vital information

___ Explanation of Sybils story is missing a few pieces of vital information

___A few mistakes in spelling, punctuation and/or grammatical correctness

___ Explanation of Sybils background is missing several pieces of vital information

___ Explanation of Sybils story is missing a several pieces of vital information

___Several mistakes in spelling, punctuation and/or grammatical correctness

___ Section is missing or unidentifiable

Events in the Film that Portray Schizophrenia

___ At least two events in the film are identified and explained that portray schizophrenia

___ Details included to elaborate upon the events

___ Spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ At least one event in the film is identified and explain that portrays schizophrenia

___ Some details included, but lacking a solid explanation

___ A few mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Some relationship to schizophrenia and the film are referenced, but a specific example is not given OR specific example is incorrect

___ Few details included

___ Several mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Section is missing or unidentifiable

Events in the Film that Portray Dissociative Identity Disorder

___ At least two events in the film are identified and explained that portray dissociative identity disorder

___ Details included to elaborate upon the events

___ Spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ At least one event in the film is identified and explain that portrays dissociative identity disorder

___ Some details included, but lacking a solid explanation

___ A few mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Some relationship to dissociative identity disorder and the film are referenced, but a specific example is not given OR specific example is incorrect

___ Few details included

___ Several mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Section is missing or unidentifiable

Conclusion: Effectiveness of Film in Portraying Realities of Disorders

___ Conclusion is a minimum of one paragraph

___ At least three pieces of detail included about the reality of disorders and is accurate

___ Definitively explains whether or not the film portrayed the reality of both disorders

___ Spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Conclusion is not quite one paragraph

___ At least two pieces of detail included about the reality of the disorders and is accurate

___ Provides some explanation concerning the film portraying the reality if both disorders

___ Explanation is lacking detail

___ A few mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ Conclusion is significantly disorganized OR is not a standalone paragraph

___ At least one piece of detail included is included about the reality of the disorders and is accurate

___ Explanation has almost no detail

___ Several mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammatical correctness

___ section is missing or unidentifiable

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