Sybil Movie Analysis
At first and final glance, Sybil is a must see movie for anyone interested in psychology. It is absolutely phenomenal from the background of the movie, plot, and cast; Sybil couldn’t have gotten any better. This movie keeps you thinking and intrigued.
Knowing of the background of the movie is important. Sybil is about a woman living with thirteen different personalities, so that she can get through her life easier. She was abused growing up by her mother, who was diagnosed as being schizophrenic. Later in Sybil’s life she began to have terrible blackouts causing her to lose her job, and eventually goes to the hospital, for a cut on her hand that she didn’t remember doing. While Sybil is at the hospital that’s where she meets Dr. Wilbur who is a psychiatrist. From that …show more content…
She ends up having one of her blackouts and gets let go from her job. Sybil ends up going home to her apartment and hears a piano playing; the sound continues to get louder causing her to have one of her episodes. That’s when Sybil goes to the hospital and meets Dr. Wilbur for a neurological exam. It’s at that point that Sybil realizes she’s been having these blackouts her whole life. Dr. Wilbur tells Sybil that she blacks out under conditions of fear. Over the weeks each one of Sybil’s personalities starts to come out to Dr. Wilbur. Sybil also starts to date her neighbor named Richard, and begins to fall in love with him. On Christmas Eve Richard staying the night with Sybil, and she has another one of her episodes from a nightmare she had. Richard runs to the pay phone to call Dr. Wilbur for help; that’s when he finds out Sybil suffers from MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). Richard hears Sybil going up to the roof, so he urges Wilbur to come over right away. Richard is able to stop Sybil from her suicide attempt and go back inside. Dr. Wilbur holds Sybil in her arms while Sybil
Knowing of the background of the movie is important. Sybil is about a woman living with thirteen different personalities, so that she can get through her life easier. She was abused growing up by her mother, who was diagnosed as being schizophrenic. Later in Sybil’s life she began to have terrible blackouts causing her to lose her job, and eventually goes to the hospital, for a cut on her hand that she didn’t remember doing. While Sybil is at the hospital that’s where she meets Dr. Wilbur who is a psychiatrist. From that …show more content…
She ends up having one of her blackouts and gets let go from her job. Sybil ends up going home to her apartment and hears a piano playing; the sound continues to get louder causing her to have one of her episodes. That’s when Sybil goes to the hospital and meets Dr. Wilbur for a neurological exam. It’s at that point that Sybil realizes she’s been having these blackouts her whole life. Dr. Wilbur tells Sybil that she blacks out under conditions of fear. Over the weeks each one of Sybil’s personalities starts to come out to Dr. Wilbur. Sybil also starts to date her neighbor named Richard, and begins to fall in love with him. On Christmas Eve Richard staying the night with Sybil, and she has another one of her episodes from a nightmare she had. Richard runs to the pay phone to call Dr. Wilbur for help; that’s when he finds out Sybil suffers from MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). Richard hears Sybil going up to the roof, so he urges Wilbur to come over right away. Richard is able to stop Sybil from her suicide attempt and go back inside. Dr. Wilbur holds Sybil in her arms while Sybil