Title: Your course notes wiki (collaborative)
Course: Psychology in Cinema > Section: Reflection and Feedback

The Movies

Fight Club

A Beautiful Mind

Spider

Fight Club

Starting the page about Fight Club....

(Are we allowed to add stuff about any film or just our group choice film?)

A Beautiful Mind

The Book

The film

Spider

Opening credits:

yellowy, stained wallpaper with brown patches - creates the impression of a place poorly looked after - walls with bits of paint having fallen off - possibly symbolic of Spider's mind

Blots on wall paper look like Rorschach tests - establish that the film will be dealing explicitly with psychology

Piano Music:

"Over the mountains and over the waves/Under the fountains and under the graves/Under floods that are deepest which Neptune obey/Over rocks that are steepest love will found out the way” - 17^th Century hymn - takes of floods - Neptune - god - and mountans and waves - "All Creatures Great and Small” vibe - perhaps expressing the idea that society has symbolically used religion to deal with inner trauma - look to God for help with your problem

Rorschach tests:

on the wallpaper + walls - perhaps encouraging the spectator to look into him or herself - to try and explore their own psychology whilst watching the film

Some of the 'Rorschach tests' look as though they contain scary faces - perhaps expressing the inner demon of our psychology, or those with mental illness