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Emily Boys Film Analysis

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Emily Boyes A5 1) Please provide the name of the movie you watched and a BRIEF summary of the film. - The movie that was watched was A Beautiful Mind. Throughout the movie the main character was not like other kids his age, he was more knowledgeable and did harder tasks than others. 2) What disorder is portrayed? - The disorder that is portrayed is that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. 3) What symptoms were presented, that depicted the disorder indicated? Please detail that moment in the film. - He sees and interacts with things that are not there and that are invisible, he soon becomes scared and paranoid about the simplest things that don’t even exist. A moment in the film where he also displayed schizophrenia would be when he thinks

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