Monday, September 26, 2011
Research Paper Topic Freewrite.
The research topic that I am going to be writing about is #4 "Portraying Human Minds in Film". The option that I am going to base my paper off and my research off of is going to be the film Enduring Love. The film highlights people stalking each other and becoming obsessively in love with a person due to a tragic event that they both shared. The illness that is focused on is called Erotomania and this is the act of believing that a stranger is in love with you and this can be caused by having bi-polar disorder or schizophrenia. The person experiencing this will become delusional and feel that they have more than one secret admirer and this is portrayed in the movie Enduring Love where the main character goes through a tragic event with another man and the man becomes obsessed with him and won't let him forget what happened so he begins to stalk him and see follow him everywhere he goes. This topic is interesting to me because I hadn't known that there was an actual condition that is considered "stalking" or being "obsessed" I simply thought they were just terms people used, I had no idea it was an actual mental illness.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This will definitely work as a topic! The technical mental condition that the film depicts is de Clerambault's Syndrome.... You know, if you wanted to look at the novel, written by Ian McEwan, the last two chapters provide an actual clinical description of the 'case' of the characters in the story. A research question to ask is how the director / novelist takes a 'tabloid' case of stalking and makes real or not for a story. I am glad you are working a challenging and original film (and / or novel). --Prof. D.
ReplyDelete