Preview

Eve white vs Real eve

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
606 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Eve white vs Real eve
Eve and Chris
Chris Sizemore was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. She was one of the first cases doctors had ever come across. With being such a special case, Chris was asked if she would be interested in having a movie made about her life. Chris and her family decided to peruse the movie, but not to use her real name. The directors of the film decided to give her the name of Eve White. However, there were parts of the movie that did not happen in real life or were twisted in the making of The Three Faces of Eve.
Having a disorder like Chris was diagnosed with is not only hard to the patient, but also hard for friends and family. In Chris’ life she had a loving husband and two children. Eve was in a bad relationship where she did not love her husband and a young daughter, Bonnie who she adored. When Eve White turned into Eve Black, a rollicking young woman with a sly grin, she would physically harm Bonnie and would be extremely mean to her the little girl. Eve Black strangled Bonnie one day and happened to Chris’ eldest daughter as well when a different personality came out. Chris’ children say that none of their mother’s personalities ever hurt them, but they defiantly had their favorites, which they got across in the movie. Bonnie enjoyed when Jane’s personality came out because she was kind and playful with her. In the movie Jane finds a man who she falls in love with, but does not feel as if she could marry him because she has

more than one personality. They ended up getting married which was a true story from Chris’ life. However, in the movie they did not put in that they did not tell anyone about her disorder because her new husband Don and their children would have to move because the neighbors would not wanting her to live by them because she is “crazy.”
The Faces of Eve was based off of Chris’ life, but Chris had 22 personalities

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    In the book Fire In The Ashes by Jonathan Kozol , who is a famous journalist and writer, he explores the poverty and the life of several kids from New York. There are two kids named Eric and Christopher. Eric who is black and Christopher who is white. Both kids lived in the Martinique Hotel and both kids entered the hotel because one of their parents had died. Christopher barely has any friends. Unlike Christopher, Eric, has a few friends and they influence him in negative ways. While Eric and Christopher did not enter the shelters at the same exact age or had the same gender parent die in common, they both end up committing…

    • 116 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    A major force that influenced the development of Chris was his family. Chris acts as if everything is alright and that he is going to school normally. But in reality he has travelled to live in the wilderness. He does this without informing his parents or sister. He just left them to worry about his whereabouts. He also informed the postal service to keep his letters and send them all at once so his parents would not suspect anything. He did this because he did not appreciate how his parents had treated him and his sister during while they grew up and during their childhood. Chris was spoiled rich yet because of his parent’s domestic conflicts and the total dysfunction of his family made him…

    • 1816 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Looking over a couple theories that related to Chris and his family, it seemed like attachment theory fit best. I believe that attachment theory is best for Chris because he had that secure attachment with his mom that allowed him branch out and do something completely unexpected of him. He knew that if anything went wrong he had someone there who had his back, which was his mom and sister. That knowledge of security allowed him to go on this journey and experience the unknown. Attachment theory, established by John Bowlby, is a set a concepts that are used to explain the emergence of the emotional bond that forms between an infant and their primary caregiver. It then goes on to explore that way in which the bond affects the child’s emotional…

    • 142 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Chris tries to escape from his hardships by taking a viewpoint of optimism, and often enhancing things to seem better than they are. For example, Chris tells Vanessa he is going to be a world traveler when in reality he is only becoming a traveling salesman. Chris wants people's judgments of him to be good, and also believes his own mistruths to create a better sense of self-worth for himself. One of the reasons he is fond of children younger than himself is because of their adoration for him. Vanessa is also aware of being judged poorly, but more so by Chris than anyone else. From her perspective, the relationship between Chris and her is tarnished by the age difference.…

    • 507 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    How Is Eve Naive

    • 792 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Eve's ruthlessness and skilled deception put Margo into a tailspin of despair and ultimately launched her acting career. Throughout the movie, Eve idolized and secretly undermined Margo; in everything from acting to her true love. Eve eventually becomes a known actor, much to Margo's disgust. The movie All About Eve was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1950. During this movie, Eve plays a fan od Nargo Channings and as she gets in well with her, starts meeting people in the acting business and launches her career. Margo Channing, another one of the main characters such as Eve, is the famous actor that Eve supposedly is the biggest fan of and comes to all her plays. When thinking of Eve's actions, two words come to mind; ruthless and naive. Ruthless is explained by the dictionary as having no compassion, pity, or merciless. This description fit Eve to the T. Naive, on the other hand, is explained as lacking worldly experience and understanding. During the entire film, Margo was a perfect example of being naive, as equally was Bill. Eve used people's naivete during the movie to move her up in the acting world. These acts, such as her holding a party for Bill and when she made the long distance phone call to Bill to wish him a happy birthday, show the character in which Eve is. Bill is Margo's love…

    • 792 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Chris was known as mentally ill most of the time; however that isn’t the case. The fact is mc Donald’s coworkers see him as mental because he didn’t talk to them and rode in the desert every day; however in reality McCandless didn’t have any reason to talk to them and he was perfectly fine. He seen those people as “”Plastic People”” (43), and had no interest in Talking to them. Others thought he was mental because he stayed distant and didn’t talk, but Chris wasn’t talking to them on purpose and he knew what he was doing, where real mental people don’t mean to be anti – social but that’s how it is. Chris knew he was being anti – social and had his reasoning.…

    • 495 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    To elaborate, the premise of diagnosing these characters as having Histrionic personality disorder requires a description of the ailment itself. It is a disease of the mind, in which the patients are emotionally volatile and overly dramatic in ways that draw attention to themselves (Blais, Ch. 39). The cause is still a mystery, and many experts in the field believe that the answer lies in genes and childhood events. And with no correlation to any of its symptoms or origin, the disorder is more frequently recognized and diagnosed in women, usually manifesting itself in the host by late teens to early twenties. Similar to all other personality disorders, this ailment can also be flatly undetectable to most and bordering all the characteristics of someone who is simply self-indulgent to an extreme extent. As stated in the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia, “People with this disorder are usually able to function at a high level and can be…

    • 1798 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Story: Family and Chris

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Once Chris finally goes home Vanessa his little cousin comes to visit him; she notices that Chris is very quiet and reserved. He lets people talk over him and never talks back it is as if he is a body without a soul; as if he is…

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Chris McCandless

    • 571 Words
    • 3 Pages

    When Chris decided to go into the wilderness to live, he wanted to start a new life; he wants to find out who he is. Then again what his sister Carine said also seem very true about Chris, “Chris knew exactly who he was. He was searching for a place in this world that he fit into, where he could be true to himself.” He didn’t just want to think about the meaning of life, he actually wanted to live it for himself. He when traveling to find true happiness and beauty. That is the reason he did all what he did. I think Christopher McCandless went “Into the Wild” to discover what is summed up in his quote “happiness is only real when shared”, something I think he found out far too late. He went all that way to discover that something is only really worth experiencing if you can share it with someone else.…

    • 571 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A person with a borderline personality disorder often experiences a recurring pattern of disorganization and instability in self-image, mood, behavior and personal relationships. A person with this disorder can often appear warm, friendly and competent. However, something may quickly and easily set them off, and the instability shines bright. Just like with Alex in Fatal Attraction.…

    • 578 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    -Chris creates his own fantasy world (ranch, racing horses etc.) He tries to sell magazines, vacuum cleaners even when he knows he won't make it to university. He can't face reality. Also, when there is conflict he ignores it and it seems like he doesn't even notice it. He holds a fantasy in his mind that seems real to him…

    • 436 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Ordinary People

    • 1939 Words
    • 8 Pages

    I decided to base my clinical assessment of a movie character on Conrad Jarrett, the lead character of the film Ordinary People. Conrad is seventeen years old and is the only child of Beth and Calvin Jarrett. The Jarrett’s live in the affluent suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois, where Calvin works as a successful tax attorney. The Jarrett’s have just recently experienced a family tragedy, where their eldest son, Buck, drown in a boating accident, while Conrad witnessed the entire event. Six month after the accident, Conrad has become severely depressed, and slit his wrists with a razor blade in a failed suicide attempt. His parents discovered him unconscious in the bathroom, and immediately committed him to a psychiatric hospital. He spent eight months in treatment and has recently returned home, as well as resumed his classes at Lake Forest High School. He is struggling socially, academically, and has a strained relationship with his mother, Beth. Immediately following his discharge, Conrad continues to experience nightmares, and flashbacks to the boating accident in which he watched his older brother die from drowning. He is also experiencing chronic agitation, appetite loss, poor concentration, and avoidance of his former friends and extracurricular activities. When Conrad was receiving treatment, he was initially diagnosed with major depression with agitation, without active suicidal ideation. He attends psychotherapy twice weekly with Dr. Tyrone Berger.…

    • 1939 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    It’s easy to believe Chris suffers from a mental illness such as high functioning borderline personality disorder. This misconception comes from the fact that Chris creates a new version of himself, Alexander Supertramp, fails to maintain relationships he creates throughout his journey, and is meticulous with how the trail to his past life is left. These traits seem to be enough to diagnose Chris with such a disorder, that is if you take it out of context. Chris creates a new version of himself to symbolize the new life he is soon to pursue. He wants to limit the connections to his old life in all ways possible. A life that he regards with disdain, because it failed to meet his moral code. A code highly represented by a passage Chris highlighted in one of his books, “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth” (Thoreau qtd. in Krakauer 117). Chris’ family failed to understand, and respect these ideals, resulting in Chris’ cutting them out of his life. His parents insisted on trying to increase his quality life with material values while also keeping their previous affair a secret from Chris. He fails to maintain his relationships with people not because he’s antisocial, but because he resents society, and doesn’t…

    • 519 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    She meets the required minimum of five criteria needed in order to be diagnosed with this disorder. One is uncomfortable in social situations, the second one is low self esteem, third instability, fourth irritable and antagonistic in her relationships, and fifth she is extremely impulsive. My rationale for this is clearly demonstrated in several of the scenes through out the movie. For her low self esteem it is shown when she clearly states that she used to see herself as ugly and even in the present it seems she still thinks that as she asks Joel whether he thought she was ugly. As for uncomfortable in social situations she wants to be alone away from other people at the party. This is where she met Joel for the first time and she is glad that there is someone else like her who does not know how to act in these sort of functions. Her hair constantly changing can be seen as a sign of non conformity as well as instability. She is impulsive and erratic and this is shown as she quickly starts the conversation with Joel on the train. Her irritable and antagonistic side in relationships is shown all through out the movie. The scene where she yells at Joel for not being more open, or when she stays out until three in the morning and is purposefully making Joel mad and starting an argument. She can be very impulsive as shown when she broke into an empty house or when she just packed and left him after his…

    • 1263 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    She was devastated when told the news. Her emotions were everywhere. She didn’t know what to think. She was mad at Amanda but sad for Andrew. She thought to herself “where did I go wrong” blaming herself for amandas actions. She held herself responsible because of how she raised…

    • 178 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays