BelovedEssay Preview: BelovedReport this essayEnglish Lit. and Film3/13/06Beloved Dreams?In movies, it is crucial to understand that objects and images that are portrayed in films are always up for interpretation by the audience. The movie “Beloved”, starring Oprah and Danny Glover, gives wonderful, and at sometimes confusing images that exercise the minds and raises many question of audiences that have witnessed this movie for what it is worth. Interpretations of the images within this movie are profound as well as thought provoking when one thinks about what is really happening in the movie, and if its even happening at all. Interpretations within film are up to the audience when one wants to figure out and decide what is happening. Artistic license and the interpretations within film by the audience is one of the most important aspects of movies for it is many times the reason why they are so revered and related to so well by audiences.
Living in the past is something that every person has been known to do in one-way or another. So, when living in the past is put in context within a film it is easy to relate to. “Beloved” does this extremely well. Though all of the audiences that see contemporary movies where not enslaved in the southern United States, it is still an issue that is portrayed in films all other the world, and, subsequently, is the subject matter in “Beloved.” Though no one living today knows first hand exactly happened in the south in the last quarter of the 1800s, there is a formulated idea of what it was like by audiences everywhere. The main character, Sethe (played by Oprah), was a slave in this movie and her past haunts her throughout the movie.
Horrible memories of the past can make a person go mad. The life of an African-American slave (if you can even call it thus) is a life that no person is known to live in the world (or at least to the public knowledge) and would lead anyone to live through such atrocities would have severe mental problems. The lives that they lived were traumatic to say the least. To think that the horrific situations they witnessed, did not follow them through out there lives is ridiculous, and to think that such appalling happenings didnt take a toll on the psychological network of the brain is preposterous. Such ghastly memories are those of which contaminate the mind of Sethe so much so that it makes her see things that are not there. This is an interpretation that one can find in the movie, “Beloved.”
However, with all due respect to the interpretation in question, it is not clear in the movie of whether or not Sethe is insane, schizophrenic, or otherwise mentally disturbed. At times she seems quite sane and seems completely reasonable if not completely coherent in a given social situation. Yet, there are multiple examples in which it, her sanity is thrown into question. In the movie, it shows that a strange young girl named, Beloved, who cannot talk well at all, makes her way into the household that Sethe, her younger daughter, Denver, and her lover, Paul D share, and eventually becomes, or seems to, a resident of the house they live in. It is alluded to, in the film, more than once, that Sethe has lost her mind, and that Beloved is a figment of her imagination,
The theory of mind games that set out to create a new way of thinking has a lot to do with the subject matter of psychiatry. In many ways, mental health psychology is, at its core, science and not religion. In fact, it is so called because of the wide area of its research that even a handful of psychiatrists could not agree on what it actually means. What really happened before the invention and use of Mind games, after the invention and use of modern medicine, is that the human brain grew at a rate faster than the pace of progress. And it then fell along with it, and came along more and more slowly, until it was able to go from a very rapid rate of growth to a slow rate of disorientation. This has led to the development of new forms of thinking that are the primary cause of all mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, paranoid depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and to this day, there is an epidemic of such mental illness among the general population, including those that have to go through a traumatic childhood, who are exposed to and experience similar situations after having their own experiences.
The idea of the “mind games” or brain games, or that they were coined, in the 1990s by psychologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, has been somewhat supported from the start by the discovery of brain-computer interfaces at the University of Vermont, or indeed by research done by researchers at the Harvard A.T.M., and by others whose work has been supported by similar institutions as MIT and NYU. The idea came at an opportune time, however, when the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the World Health Organization (WHO) both took the lead in providing diagnostic test tools and new methods for analyzing the brain, and this was also followed by the first government-funded demonstration of mental-health research. The same day of the 1990 congressional debate over the use of new methods for studying the brain, researchers at MIT presented a report with the proposal to develop new methods for collecting and analyzing medical records, both from those in the field as well as through personal interviews, and the most important being Brain Taming. Many of the more recent evidence indicates that people with Alzheimer’s can now have their scans performed by a professional with a standard brain scanner.
In the 1990s a number of mental illness researchers and researchers began to look for ways to improve patients’ understanding and understanding of their mental health problems beyond their mental issues themselves. Such tools have continued to be used in many areas of human research and in therapy. The last one, an international consortium of experts, led by the Swedish National Institute for the Research of the Diseases of the Neuroscience in Lund University, was able to turn on a set of software, named Brain Taming, which shows a patient the details of their brain scans. The technology allows the patient to quickly identify the kind of thoughts