Capstone Project - Pt.5 (Fiction Book/Movie) (2 of 2)

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For the second half of this creation piece, I watched the movie Shutter Island, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio. In the film, Leo plays a US Marshal named Teddy Daniels who is asked to investigate the disappearance of a patient at an asylum for the criminally insane titled Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Soon, he begins to doubt everything and speculates that the hospital has brought him there for a sinister reason, and this is only made worse by a hurricane leaving him stranded and the doctor's being less than cooperative. Confusion gives way to improbable clarity as everything from Teddy's true past starts to reveal itself. I've used a word cloud to demonstrate the main points in the story creatively and tastefully.

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As for questions I answered in my prezi for the fiction book, the story reveals much of the same things presented in my novel, it shows how an actual, normal person would feel if in the situation of dealing with a mentally ill people, or mental health services in general. For the time, it may have been normal, but now it is quite a problem, because now these people are not getting the help they deserve.

Once again, the fictional portrayal lends itself well to my research, further backing up what I've read regarding treatments (Lobotomies are a big plot point, as well as the introduction of psychotropic drugs) and the overall creepy feel that most get when talking about mental illness and asylums. This is a suspenseful movie and meant to be in a creepy location in order to pull that off properly so it is understandable for entertainment purposes.

One of the better known
psychotropic drugs

Facts are used much in the same way as well, though much more emphasis is put upon psychotropic drugs, which is apparently what is given to Teddy to make him more compliant with whatever the hospital plans to do with him, and it's stated how long it takes for such a thing to affect a person. This, of course, affects the plot of the movie quite a bit.





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Shutter Island. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Perf. Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. Paramount Pictures, 2010. DVD.

For the second half of this creation piece, I watched the movie Shutter Island, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio. In the film, Leo plays a US Marshal named Teddy Daniels who is asked to investigate the disappearance of a patient at an asylum for the criminally insane titled Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Soon, he begins to doubt everything and speculates that the hospital has brought him there for a sinister reason, and this is only made worse by a hurricane leaving him stranded and the doctor's being less than cooperative. Confusion gives way to improbable clarity as everything from Teddy's true past starts to reveal itself. There is no bias represented in the movie and it is helpful to show how treatment changed from past years. It is obviously a movie, so some things are dramatized, but the core of the facts presented are the same.This movie fits well with my topic by showing how people felt about mental health during these years.

Capstone Project - Pt. 5 (Fiction Book/Movie) (1 of 2)

This part of the Capstone was definitely one of my favorites, unfortunately, it's one of the last pieces to this astounding puzzle. For it, we got to choose between reading a contemporary fiction novel, or viewing a fictional movie of our choice. I've decided to do both. However, each part will be done through a different medium. For my book, I made a prezi to show how it connected to my research. Thanks to the awesomeness of the internet and technology, I can embed it here with no problem so that everyone can view it...

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Roux, Madeleine. Asylum. New York City, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Print.

Staying in a crumbling mental hospital that is currently being renovated probably isn't anyone's idea of a good time, but for Daniel Crawford, a high school student involved in a college prep program, he's forced to stay in the archaic Brookline Asylum on the campus of the participating university because those are the only dorms available. With his two friends, Abby and Jordan, Dan has to confront the dark past hidden within the former psychiatric hospital that refuses to be buried in order to understand his own.As with any fiction book, it has an artistic license with a few things, but all in all it is unbias in how it presents the info within.The fiction book fits well with my topic, and I surprised that I learned so much that I didn’t know before.