Revolutionary Road
Did kate Winslet portray someone with a personality disorder is, Revolutionary road?
So k-A lot of people told me she was for woman working, and all that-but someone said something interesting and said,”If you look at the movie closely you will realize that Kate’s character actually had a lot of mental problems-”
What is your view on this?
Never seen the film before and I’ll try and watch it.
Most films have people with personality disorders. Most people in life have personality disorders, although films are all about drama so more people probably have them as people’s actions and behaviours are often exagerated. So I guess it is likely that a character does have a personality disorder to make the film interesting.
It’s a shame to label someone as having a personality disorder though and it quite insulting especially if someone diagnoses it when they don’t know the person’s history and development through life. Personality disorder are said to be pervasive disorders that persist from adolescence througout a person’s adult life sometimes subsiding after middle age.
People see different sides of people and certain abnormal pressures in life can be unbearable for anyone and so their behaviours might be abnormally anxious for a period of time which does not mean that they are naturally like that, but the bad environment made them like that.
It would be unfair and hurtful to say they have a personality disorder. They might just be struggling to cope in diffiult circumstances and lack the skills and knowledge to know what to do to deal with it. In other words they simply lack education, skills and extra special creatvity to solve such complex problems and so are not mentally ill.
Anyway, my guess is that the personality disorder Kate Winslet might be diagnosed as having by lay people (I would hope that psychiatrists today would not easily label people with personality disorders) was dramatic in some way, so that could be Borderline or Histrionic or Narcissistic or Paranoid or something like that.
But I suspect that the circumstances that Kate Winslet’s character were in were so bad that she inveitably had difficuties and nervous break downs but that they probably should not be attributed to a chronic and pervasive personality disorder.
Anyway, I’d like to respond to the first answer you had which made reference to the character giving herself an abortion.
Well firstly, that must have been a difficult thing for her to do and does suggests a serious mental problem if she was actually able to do it, that is unless the poor woman didn’t have access to a clinic where they could do it properly.
If she didn’t have access to a clinic to have it done properly then, in that case then she deserves respect to have actually been able to carry it out under such circumstances without the proper services and this is an example of altruism for the child, it certainly wouldn’t be a selfish act. How could it be a selfish act? No one would want to put themselves through all that pain and put their lives at risk if they were selfish. It wouldn’t be natural. Self preservation is natural. Who could do such a dangerous thing, causing much physical pain in herslef and which will have risked her own life, selfishly. This is more like altruism. This abortion sounded like it was performed altruristically.
Secondly, I think that people who have abortions have them for the best interests of the child. It would be worse for a child to be born into a world with a parent who might not be able to care for it.
It would be most selfish and cruel and inhumane to want a child to be born into a bad environment and all the life time of pain that causes. Better to abort the fetus before it’s too late.
If it’s not even born and has a painless death then there is nothing wrong with abortion and in most cases of abortion it is the right thing to do. There is nothing worse than for a baby to be born unwanted – that is torture and inhumane. There are plenty of other babies that can be made, one that hasn’t even lived yet is hardly a loss (unless the mother and father wanted it). It would be wrong to kill a human that has lived, been loved and worked and done some good, that would be a loss. But a fetus is not such a loss, specially if the mother and father didn’t want it and no one cared for it. In that case it is simply a loss of blood and bones, that’s all. It hasn’t lived yet and is not worth much, like a fish.
It is much better to educate people to not get pregnant in the first place. I think it is selfish of people to have sex without protection when they don’t want a baby. That is what we need to be angry about. That is what we need to be branding as selfish.
In my opinion people shouldn’t be having sex without a condom until marriage and people need to be educated about choosing the right partner, being a good partner and how to have good sex, so people are not tempted to be unfaithful outside marriage.
That would cut unwanted preganancy and abortions rates as well as sexually transmitted diseases, most importantly, it would cut the rate at which children being born into a bad environment simply because people thought it was bad to have an abortion. That is the worst outcome of all, for a child to be born into a bad environment simply because some selfish person thought it was selfish to have an abortion. Abortion isn’t selfish.
Having sex without a condom outside of marriage when you don’t want children, risking pregnancy, is selfish. It is that that should be frowned upon and unacceptable, not abortion.
Sorry I digressed. Hope you find an answer to your questions.
Revolutionary Road Official Trailer 2008