Question: Which film accurately depicts schizophernia?

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Which film accurately depicts schizophernia?

  1. A Beautiful Mind
  2. The Soloist
  3. Take Shelter
  4. Shutter Island
  5. Other - Insert
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Don’t forget Donny Darko.

My favorite is A Beautiful Mind, I think it’s pretty accurate.

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The machinist is a good film too. My favourite is A beautiful mind. I have also seen The soloist and Shutter Island.

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I liked the movie ‘shine’. It’s a pretty old one but beautiful.

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I don’t think any of them accurately depict it

I count on PBS documentaries.

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That’s a good one.

Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for that performance.

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I wish I could say ‘Psycho’ because I love the movie, but I guess necrophilia, multiple personality disorder and the rest don’t qualify as proper schizophrenia. The best on schizophrenia? Cronenberg’s “Spider”

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I’ve only seen A Beautiful Mind, but I absolutely love that movie

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I don’t know about accurate but my favorites are A Beautiful Mind and Donnie Darko.

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Has anyone seen the movie Elizabeth Blue? I watched it last year (it’s free on Amazon prime) after someone on the forum recommended it.

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I watched Elizabeth Blue @Moonbeam.
I also liked it.

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I have not seen it, but thanks for the recommendation.

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“Lassie, Come Home”.

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Angel Baby. An old Aussie film. It’s pretty accurate in it’s depiction of a sz couple. Bit sad but realistic.

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A beautiful mind is a great movie
The Fisher king is also good

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“Jacob’s Ladder” kinda has some stuff. A little scary too.

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Yeah I loved Jacobs Ladder.

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Twin Peaks. So Surreal. Love this show. Watching it for the first time.

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I think they need to make a film that shows how a recovered person with Schizophrenia lives to try and raise some awareness of how we live our lives.

Dramatising the positives isn’t really helpful. They need to show how life is.

I guess a beautiful mind does this to some degree, but John Nash was a pretty unique example.

I think they could make it quite gritty and appealing to an audience.

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I read what you’re saying, but I’m not following.

These two quotes seem to contradict each other.

Could you maybe give an example of what you mean by “gritty?”