Schizophrenia in Donnie Darko

From Barbelith

Schizophrenia in Donnie Darko

sleazenation

The funny thing is the director isn't at all keen on the mental illness angle of Donnie Darko -- indeed, one of the deleted scenes reveals that Donnie's drugs are placebos...

---

Xoc

No idea what Donnie's "drugs" are, froze the dvd and there's no indication on the label. There is perhaps an indication in his stiffened facial muscles and zombie-esque gait at points of Chlorpromazine side effects which would be congruent with 80's US psychiatry. Have to disagree that it succeeds as a presentation of classical paranoid schizophrenia but I don't think that detracts at all from the film.

---

---

Back to Donnie Darko