Dissociative Disorder In The Movie

Dissociative Disorder

In today’s society, people have live with different kind of people who has problems, and there is one type of people who with mental illness which call dissociative disorder. In the film M directed by Fritz Lang, it talked about many kids had been victims by child-murder who has a dissociative disorder, and cause indignation of the society. In the film, Lang uses Hans Beckert to prove as child-murder who are hateful and pitiful at the same time. Hans Beckert was the character who has one or more characters inside of him to take control in his head. More often the person with this illness is most likely have a rough childhood, for instance in children exposed to long-term physical, sexual or emotional abuse, which make
Why will people have this kind of illness? and What dissociative disorder characters is alike? In the film, the police officer had analyzed his handwriting and according to the preliminary evaluation, he could be an indolence or even lethargy person. Also through the letter of the display, they concluded him as a madness person. Following by the shot when he using the mirror, his face very looked like a person who is lethargy, and indolent. The way he smiles to the mirror is skittish, he uses two fingers to stretch out his lip, then open his eye widely and staring at himself. He could be controlling by the character inside of him already, and he doesn’t even realize that. It is one sad thing about the dissociative disorder patients. “Dissociative disorders are characterized by an involuntary escape from reality characterized by a disconnection between thoughts, identity, consciousness and memory.” (National alliance on Mental Illness, 2016) In this quote clearly tells about how dissociative disorder patients will cause the consciousness of his inner pain activity or memory from the psychological solution, which shifts from another mode to protect themselves, but it also loses the wholeness of self. Those people are sensitive of distrustful and vulnerable of shame and humiliation. In addition, their face more
In this uncontrolled self-behavior, it often tended to hurt someone to achieved the purpose of protection. There was one scene on the street, he saw a little girl alone in the window shop throughout the mirror reflection, then his facial expression was getting a change to lethargy, he placed his finger on his lip and smiled to the mirror, which we can infer his second character already took over his body and started whistling. It also reminded us when Elsie Beckmann got killed, the scenario somewhat were similar, and when he shifted to the another character, he would have a characteristic of