Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Depression


Depression
Last Days.
Gus van sant’s movie last days is inspired by musician Kurt Cobain last days. The main character in the movie is a musician named Blake. Who has a drug addiction and is seriously depressed. Blake just roams around his house not saying a word just in a sad daze. He has a hard time doing daily actives like making food for his self and he finally just gives up. He has many people living in his house and to escape he spends days in the woods just so he can be by himself. At the end of the movie he ends up locking himself in his studio and the movie ends tragically when Blake can no longer fight his depression and kills his self.

I watch this movie on July 1 at 9 pm the movie is Rated R and is 96 minutes long.
This Relates to Chapter 12 Psychological disorders. On page 474 it talks about depressive disorders. In the movie Blake was suffering from major depressive disorder, which is defined as a condition in which a person feels sad and hopeless for weeks and months, often losing interest in all activities and taking pleasure in nothing suicide is associated with a variety of psychological disorders, but is mostly tied to depression.


1 comment:

Sharon Scruggs said...

I found this interesting because I am an admirer of Kurt Cobain. He was a very talented young man with many problems who tragically ended his life when he still had so much to offer. This movie can also relate to our studies of drug addiction in class. I plan on renting this movie!