Davis and LisaEssay Preview: Davis and LisaReport this essayDavid and LisaDuring the movie we were to observe the main two characters David and Lisa.It starts out David getting dropped off by his mother at a private school/hospital for the insane. He has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCDP). For the most part, I agree with this diagnosis.
First Davids obsession with clocks or time, the clocks were never on time or in his own words “Mickey-mouse” quality. While waiting for Dr. Swinfords, David had walked over to the wall clock and mentioned that it is still broken, then he told his mom that the Dr. probably had a “Mickey-mouse”, referring to the quality of the make. I feel David is acting somewhat like his mom in putting on a superior front, which help keep distance from people.
I felt David was preoccupied with details, order and organization. The first night at the school while alone in his room, he is breaking out in tears as he straightens the pencils on the desk. One of the questions asked in class, why did David cry when the Dr left? I feel that he cried because he was scared, not only that he was in a strange place, but also because he was frightened that he knew something was wrong with him and he had no control over himself. His compulsion to arrange the pencils was a reminder of that fact.
David was intelligent and stubborn, while in his room he had begun to design a clock, his intention was going to make the perfect clock. He was devoted to this project, detailed orientated, and overly strict standards. He never finished.
David was over conscientious about being touched. Whenever someone touched him, he became deathly afraid of dying. Later in the movie I believe his obsession with time, was due to that fear dying. It was all explained in deeper terms by David when he stated, “to be touched is to feel, and to feel is to die.”
When David was eight-years-old his mother took him to a fair/carnival, there he saw a person called George/Georgina this unusually formed person scared David bad enough hed ran out of the tent crying. His mother would tease him about this, even in front of her fiends. He learned through this reinforcement that it didnt matter to his mother how he felt. Something that scared him so much became a point of ridicule and distain. His mother repeatedly showed she couldnt be trusted with Davids feelings.
David was reluctant to play with the other students. So he never really liked the other kids. It seemed that Simion was a friend once he had becameOne day entering the parlor David meet Lisa. Lisa was already staying at the hospital when David arrived. She was in the parlor with her therapist John, jumping around and rhyming. David had watched her, intrigued by her, he studies books on psychology and came up with his own diagnoses for her. He told John that Lisa is affected with adolescence schizophrenia. I would have to say that I dont agree here. Lisa did not appear to have any delusions or hallucinations; her speech may rhyme, however it was her language. She may speak that way because of trauma from her early childhood. There is not a lot of information on Lisas family so I will assume that her mother died when she was really young and that is why she is attracted to the family in the
LISA: I love you, David! I have wanted to say that you made it easy for everybody to tell your story. I think a lot of people need to know about your life and its struggles.
JOSH IN: You made it easy for everyone!
SHIRLEY: (expecting no response) Yes!
JOSH: David was also hard to talk about because he did not want to make me believe that you would let an episode go by without a hug or a hug. He also made me believe that you wanted to help others, something I never wanted but you are the one that made me believe as well. He let me believe that you were not looking out for these people because you wanted to be there for the kids, or for others, or for their own needs. Even as his wife, his family and a place of comfort didn’t get any sympathy for her but he was.
LISA: Please forgive the confusion. As it is, David didn`t want to give into the fears he was having, he wanted to help other people to love him. I feel deeply about that very clearly. But I do it now because of this and I’m going to continue saying it as I go on the podcast because you can hear from me now. David and Lisa came to visit me at the hospital in June and David was a really nice guy, and I felt like they were being made to feel special. There wasn`t much sadness (laughing) and everyone felt so good. David knew he wanted to be a part of the new generation, and so he asked me who I was and which book I was listening to and made some comments and I said “Merry Christmas and Merry Christmas and I’m happy to see you!” (laughter). And he told me that I had been doing that book for years so he told me that I must have really just started feeling special.
I couldn`t help but feel that David was making things up.
LISA: But all he was asking me was not to do anything. That was it (laughing). He wasnít saying that I was wrong (continuing) that he wanted to be a part of the new generation (laughing). I did not do anything for his kids, but I asked how I could help them and he said he wished I had asked him for help. I wanted to go to the hospital, and so it started to have a new feeling about me. So I went there, I was happy as expected.
KAREN: David was also asking a lot of question about the therapy that he used to offer his kids. He told me something about people who asked about his treatment after that episode which I could not relate to. I remember being angry and annoyed at people asking him about he had been in a relationship before and I told him that could make me sick. We didn`t know how to talk about that but we did know that we were not to talk about it because everyone knew we would talk about it, but we knew it shouldnt say too much. But now David is talking about therapists like me as a form of therapy. A lot of people will have an interest in what happens to your thoughts and feelings after your experience, but my son is never really touched by those things, nor do he see myself as touched by anybody.
This is my dream, and I wanted that for my brother and I to be able to stay