It's a horror movie about a guy with multiple personalities that commits acts of violence.

Multiples everywhere are up in arms about how our condition is used as a model for fantasy thus stigmatizing it afresh.


Here's a link to an open letter to the director (delete if it violates a t.o.s. please):

https://splitmoviehurts.com/

What you think?

I think it sucks.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2

It's a horror movie about a guy with multiple personalities that commits acts of violence.

Multiples everywhere are up in arms about how our condition is used as a model for fantasy thus stigmatizing it afresh.


Here's a link to an open letter to the director (delete if it violates a t.o.s. please):

https://splitmoviehurts.com/

What you think?

I think it sucks.

yea I stay away from movies like that. i try not to get upset about this kind of thing. movies have always since film was developed has made all kinds of problems be it life problems or medical or mental to be more violent then they really are. I mean what am I going to do boycott sybil, three faces of eve, Holloween, nightmare on elm street, the big bang, soap opera's ... just about everything on tv now days has something about medical problems, mental problems, drugs, alcohol, swearing, nudity, sex you name it. most of which portray the mentally ill in bad ways.

bottom line for me is that I choose what I watch, if I dont like how a show is doing their plot line, characters,....I can just get up and turn the channel, walk out of the movie theaters... Im just not the type of person to add un needed drama to my life by watching things I dont like then going around boycotting with petitions and sit ins, strikes, protests. just not me. for me and my life its just easier to just turn the channel, and dont watch things that get me triggered.

[elevatedsoul]

i wish they wouldn't confuse an already confusing subject more with such films

if they insist on making them then why cant they atleast make a few real ones that will show it from a dissociatives side...

just because someone has a mental illness doesnt make them criminal, or evil... people that develop d.i.d. have been through so much the last thing they need is stuff like this making everyone fearful and confused

Personally...I wish that there was more common acceptance and knowledge of this condition over Hollywood's portrayal...

They say 1% of the general public is DID world wide (still millions)'with 5% of that that are of the total amnesiac variety of which Hollywood finds to be a very great medium for exploitation.

Now I'm kinda like hesitant to share me.

I ache for all of us...not just me. I don't matter anymore, but....

This is just so wrong.

[LadyShadow]

I saw the preview for this and it really disturbed me. I don't know why they keep making movies like this that portray mental illness in such a negative way.

I think it sucks too.

[OliverB]

Wah... when I saw the trailer in the beginning I thought "Good, a film about DID" but then when I saw he is a violent murderer and kidnapper... It was like "What the hell?"

It will make people more confused about what DID is, it already has a lot of stygma of it, it doesn0t need more...

[Lost_in_the_woods]

Thank you for posting this AC2!
I saw commercial for this movie on TV and it made me very angry!
We live in an information driven technological world for Christ's sakes people! There is NO EXCUSE for any format of media to be blatantly portraying any false information about MI to the public!! Shame on them!

~Scarlett

[ruh roh]

Thanks. My therapist warned me about this a few months ago, when the trailer for this movie was first being shown. She said it had taken her by surprise and was extremely upsetting, said if I happened to go to a movie and the trailer came on, to consider leaving or doing whatever I needed to not to see it. I really hate that there's very little protection against seeing the trailer. With the release of the movie, it's popping up on my TV now.

Yes, the trailer is disgustingly shocking. I now feel somewhat alienated from the rest of human kind. I 'm just getting comfortable with ourselves being more vocal with our condition, not anymore for now.

Not only that it's a horror flick...it portrays only one side of Dissociative disorders that the public gets to only see...total amnesia for effect.

What ever happened to Martians invading Earth?

[L.P.]

First time I saw that commercial, I scolded professor x for engaging in such nonsense. Tsk tsk professor, I expected better from you.

In all seriousness though, yeah, I find it disturbing. Not cool.

-Tay

[Lobster Hands]

Personally, I would like to see the movie. Now that I've stated my opinion that doesn't really mean anything here I'll go on to what I really want to say.

I don't think the general public is as dumb as we all like to think they are. Months ago when I was at work my coworker called me over to look at a preview for a movie. Just so happens it was this same movie. His exact reaction to the movie trailer was this..."That movie looks pretty good except it doesn't seem too realistic in it's portrayal of mpd. I don't like that and it seems too farfetched to me."

I was somewhat impressed with his response and stated that I agreed with him.

I am not an expert AT ALL on mpd but because I have read quite a bit about it (I was rusty and hadn't covered the topic in a few years) I began a conversation with him that discussed a more realistic outlook on it.

I don't think a movie like this is as harmful as we first believe it to be. People do recognise things that are unrealistic and when something perhaps perceived as "exciting", like this movie may for some people, comes along then more people care to further explore the topic which is better for everybody.

The world hasn't been exposed to mpd enough to have much more than myth and fiction accompany its presence in a public spectacle. Eventually, as people's views mature and as the topic itself matures, it will become better understood just like other illnesses such as depression or bipolar disorder or adhd or aids or any number of others have been.

[amandalouise]

one thing that helps me when looking at trailers and deciding whether I want to see a particular movie or not is to look at the "gendre " this is whether the producers meant the movie to be a documentary or based on reality or whether the movie is meant to be a comedy, horror, drama, thriller, action, romance....

for example because I knew the producers meant this movie to be a horror not a documentary about a mental disorder I knew to expect that a character in the movie was going to be a killer who happened to have a mental disorder, that the mental disorder was not going to be a representation of the actual real life mental disorder.

no matter what the movie or tv series is I have noticed that when someone I know goes into a movie thinking wow cool heres a show or movie about DID lets go see it, they usually do come out of it full of anger and disappointment because the movie version didnt live up to their expectations... why? because they did not watch the movie in reference to how and why it was produced/ made.

sometimes I have to ask my friends did you just go to it to see what the disorder was or did you go to it with the mind set of what the movie was actually about ... like did you expect it to be a horror (completely fictionalized, lots of scary and gore), did you expect the show to be for real or a comedy (mocking / joking/ making fun of things)...

usually the response to me has been I thought it would have a sense of reality to it. and I told them well the movie did not promise reality it promised a horror.. one of my friends smiled at me and said your right think Ill go see such and such a movie and this time keep in mind its not supposed to be a depiction of reality.

I know it upsets people in my life when they encounter situations like mental or physical health problems being fictionalized but my views are the makers of movies make what the people want to watch....

i remember a thread around here somewhere, I think I think the thread was about always changing was hooked up to the nielson rating system.

well what the neilson rating system does is tell the makers of all these movies and commercials what people want to watch. the people with these rating boxes and rating diaries are watching movies and tv shows where mental illness is being portrayed as fictional, comedies, horrors so of course the producers see a script like this and think wow this one will make a great movie this kind of thing got lots of ratings so that must be what america wants to watch. to get these kinds of movies and tv shows to stop being made the people with the rating boxes stop watching them, that makes the ratings go down and then the tv shows get cancelled, the commercials stop being played and replaced by new ones that people will watch.

ok forgot where I was going on this so will stop right here

Originally Posted by Lobster Hands

Personally, I would like to see the movie. Now that I've stated my opinion that doesn't really mean anything here I'll go on to what I really want to say.

I don't think the general public is as dumb as we all like to think they are. Months ago when I was at work my coworker called me over to look at a preview for a movie. Just so happens it was this same movie. His exact reaction to the movie trailer was this..."That movie looks pretty good except it doesn't seem too realistic in it's portrayal of mpd. I don't like that and it seems too farfetched to me."

I was somewhat impressed with his response and stated that I agreed with him.

I am not an expert AT ALL on mpd but because I have read quite a bit about it (I was rusty and hadn't covered the topic in a few years) I began a conversation with him that discussed a more realistic outlook on it.

I don't think a movie like this is as harmful as we first believe it to be. People do recognise things that are unrealistic and when something perhaps perceived as "exciting", like this movie may for some people, comes along then more people care to further explore the topic which is better for everybody.

The world hasn't been exposed to mpd enough to have much more than myth and fiction accompany its presence in a public spectacle. Eventually, as people's views mature and as the topic itself matures, it will become better understood just like other illnesses such as depression or bipolar disorder or adhd or aids or any number of others have been.

Idk. The ignorant public only knows whats shown to them. Most of them didnt study psych in school, think that its all make believe, and if you ask someone what they know about DID...I bet their minds only recalls a movie (Sybill???)....the only information that they ever received concerning the subject.

You on the other hand like you stated being read on it....know.

Im sure everyone wants to see it because its a killer thriller....it gives the real an air of inauthenticity...So tired of hiding.

I watched the trailer and thought ugh,movies like that are exactly why those with DID feel even worse about themselves than they already do.I was pretty upset about it.

But..I started thinking about the many movies/shows that I have watched that portrayed a mental illness in a bad light,movies that I really liked,have laughed while watching,have been scared,etc.I guess the only difference is they were illnesses I have never been diagnosed with,therefore I wasn't upset by them.

It's kind of morbid that mental illnesses are used for entertainment,but I don't think it will stop anytime soon.We can choose to not watch though.