Movie Analysis
In the movie, “Me, Myself & Irene”, the main character, Charlie Baileygates, played by Jim Carrey, is diagnosed with a split personality, also known as dissociative identity disorder. What that means is, at some point in the movie, he develops a second personality, and that personality goes by the name of Hank. Through out the movie, viewers are able to see the symptoms of someone with DID, and see how it can affect their daily life. Usually dissociative identity disorder develops when a person is very stressed in childhood, or undergoes some type of abuse, sexual or physical.
The DSM states the primary characteristic of the disorder is when there is an existence of more than one distinct identity or personality within a person. The different identities then “take control�
...�� over the person at different times, and the real identity is pushed away. There really isn’t a perfect treatment yet for people with DID, most individuals who develop DID usually try to keep it a secret and do not seek medical help. Also it is difficult to diagnose because you have to determine if it really is a separate personality the person has or if they are acting.When someone truly does have DID it can take years of treatment to cure the patient.
Jim Carrey’s character doesn’t get diagnosed till later in life. Throughout his life he was always made fun of, but he just kept his anger inside. Charlie Baileygates has three mixed-race sons, which is awkward since him and his wife is the same race. When his wife leaves him for the black drawf limo driver that drove for their wedding it comes clear
to him. After all this his anger built up inside was ready to come out, and it did, as Hank.
In the beginning of the movie you can tell he is getting angry.At a small party him and his wife throw, a co-worker confronts him about his kids being black, after that Charlie starts beating up the food on the grill. Right after that scene though Charlie is in a church confessing to the priest that he has so much anger inside and that he believes his wife is having an affair. Soon after his wife packs up and leaves Charlie for the limo driver. Like Charlie did with everything else, he “swallowed hard, and locked the pain away in his heart forever.
” In a confrontation with his neighbor, about something as simple as his paper, you can tell Charlie is having trouble.The neighbor took his paper, and then asked Charlie to just get a new one at work, Charlie tensed up some before being able to shrug it off and suck it down. Charlie’s friends even take advantage of how nice he is. They always make him the root of their jokes.
When Charlie asks a barber shop owner to move his illegally parked car, the owner laughs at him and just throws him the keys to the car and tells him to move it himself. The whole town takes advantage of Charlie though, not only his friends. In the supermarket a woman asks to cut in front of him inline and then ends up having a cart full of groceries.This is Charlies breaking point. He starts tensing up, you can tell something is happening.
All of
a sudden he starts talking in a different voice, and finds vagaclean in the woman’s cart that cut in front of him. So to take his anger out on her he gets on the store microphone and announces she has vagaclean in her cart. We learn this new personalities name when he is drowning a young girl in the water fountain who disobeyed him earlier. When the girl says she is going to tell her father on him, he announces that he is Hank. After this change in personality he starts going after everyone who didn’t listen to him that day.
He even went as far as going to the bathroom on his neighbor’s front lawn. Charlie is a highway portal worker for the Rhode Island State Police and after his day of mischief as Hank, his police force sends him to see a doctor. That is when he is diagnosed with DID. Charlie’s boss explains to him what exactly it is he has, and tells him about Hank. The doctors give Charlie some medication to help control Hank and get his anger out in a normal fashion. The police chief comes to the conclusion that Charlie needed to take a vacation to clear his head.
When a woman named Irene comes in that has an outstanding warrant in New York, Charlie is ordered to escort her back to New York. What the chief doesn’t know is that Irene’s ex-boyfriend set up the whole crime so she would be forced to come back to New York so he could take care of some unfinished business with her. Unfortunately for Charlie, this ex-boyfriend, Dickie, is associated with some
bad people. While on the road, Charlie and Irene come across what appears to be a dead cow in the road. Being the good citizen Charlie is, he decides to move it when he learns that t is still alive.
So to continue to do the right thing he decides to “put it out of its misery” by shooting it in the head, but the cow refuses to die after 5 shots to the head and Charlie ends up chocking it to death. After delivering Irene to the New York police, she was interrogated by two police officers. When a deliveryman comes to the door, the two cops are set up and shot while Irene runs. Irene goes and finds Charlie and tells him what is happening and he starts thinking of plans to help her. While leaving the hotel in a hurry, Charlie leaves his medication in the room.Charlie and Irene call for help, which ends up being a “bad” cop, Charlie is pushed over the limit and Hank comes back out.
Hank thinks quickly and disarms the cop and he and Irene get away. Hank comes clean to Irene about himself; Hank is nothing like Charlie though. He is totally sex driven and always angry. He constantly belittles Irene by calling her pet names like “candy-pants” and “pussy-fart”. Charlie’s triplets are extremely smart, once the Rhode Island State Police find out he and Irene are on the run, they bring the triplets into the picture.The “bad” cop frames Charlie and Irene saying they are the ones who shot the two police officers that had Irene before.
Immediately the boys defend there father saying there is no
way he killed anyone. Hank and Irene decide they need to return to Rhode Island, but before they do so they get rid of the stolen police car they were driving. Throughout the movie Charlie is constantly trying to suppress Hank, but Hank is always able to come out in a time of crisis. In the end of the movie though, they have their last battle. Dickie, Irene’s ex-boyfriend, holds her captive walking across a very old, torn apart bridge.
While she struggles to get away she calls out for Hank, since he is the braver of the two. They both are there for her though, at least until they get to the bridge. Since childhood Charlie has had a great fear of water, and Hank has the same fear so he takes control of one of Charlie’s legs so Charlie can’t go across the bridge. Charlie and Hank bicker with each other some and finally Charlie yells out “I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE HANK! ” and he regains control of his leg.
From that moment on, Hank was out of his head. Of course, to make the ending happy Charlie rescues Irene and they fall in love.The awkward thing about this movie, that makes it incorrect to the symptoms of DID is that Charlie and Hank are actually aware of each other and are able to battle each other. When a person has DID, the patient does not realize when switching personalities, and does not remember what happened during the time the other personality took over. With Charlie, he does not remember what happens when Hank is in control, but he is aware of him being
there and is able to actually fight with him. It is pretty amusing watching Jim Carrey fight with himself as the two personalities try to take control of he body, but in reality this would not happen.
Summary
The authors of this film very skillfully walked along the fine line between idiocy and humor, which gave the film an elusive appeal. Only on some episode do you want to turn away from the screen, exclaiming “fu” or “what nonsense”, as the directors immediately screw something undoubtedly successful - really funny, or even serious, or original. The film balances on one more side - between a set of comic reprise and a plot work. And you will never guess whether a reprise will remain just a reprise or grow into a plot. With a disabled person and his expensive car? And with the albino waiter? This also gives the film a certain drive.
The hero - a kind of simplified and hypertrophied Tyler Durden - in both his guises, the person is very unpleasant (Charlie is disgustingly cowardly and even vile, and Hank is just a baboon in a human form), but still not a complete villain - one way or another he raised good adoptive sons and that's all -so defended a woman who, by the will of fate, fell under his responsibility. Carrie here plays and grimaces in moderation - which brings 'Me, I and Irene' closer to 'Mask' rather than to 'Dumb and Dumber', and this is very good.
The heroine - an adequate, intelligent and kind girl - in the comic duet plays the role of a 'serious' character, shading the frenzy of the hero Carrie.
She seemed to fall into a buffoonery from an adventure film and was very surprised at this. Irene completely and unequivocally condemns both Charlie and Hank for all their bad deeds - but this does not look like a tedious moralization. This is a definite plus, which, for example, 'Liar, liar' is deprived of - despite all the rudeness and even in some places dirt, the work remains within the framework of the sowing rational, good, eternal. A very successful image, and surprisingly for this genre naturally played.
Of the secondary characters, Belyak is good, but the trinity of Negro sons ... seem to be also balancing on the verge of dense stereotypes and banter over them and realism, but still somehow they are sharply knocked out of the film. Maybe because they, formally not heroes, take on too much heroic component - they have been too active since the middle of the film to help their non-funny non-biological dad.
It seems that one should write something about the local humor in the end, something like a disclaimer: they say, be careful, there is an abnormally soft dildo of indecent length and animal cruelty twice. And no, this is not related to each other. Who is very confused, keep in mind. But in the film it all fits quite organically.
Causes
Although the causes are still not totally understood, all psychologists agree that the disorder arises out of some form of past trauma.
Particularly, many people with DID report having experienced severe physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or emotional abuse in their childhoods
These disturbances at a sensitive developmental stage of childhood (usually before age 9)often lead to the early onset
of the disorder in children
Some other studies suggest that the disorder might also be partially genetic. They show that it is more common among biological relatives of people who have the disorder than people in the general population.
Symptoms
- The individual experiences 2 or more distinct identities / personality states
- The # of identities can range from 2 to over 100, but 50% of people with DID have less than 10
- each has its own enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self
- each identity has its own name, personal history, self image, behaviors, and physical characteristics (such as expressions)
- Transitions from one identity to another are often triggered by psychosocial stress (brought on by interaction with others)
- certain identities emerge in certain situations
- identities may deny knowledge of another identities, or voice criticism about them
- gaps occur in memories of personal history
- including people, places, and events, in both the distant and recent past
- different alters remember different events
- often, the more hostile & aggressive identities have more complete memories than the passive ones.
In addition to experiencing separate identities, other symptoms can include...
- depression, anxiety, dependence and guilt
- self-harming behavior and aggression towards others
- visual or auditor hallucinations
- confusion, delusions, and flash backs
- eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse
The following picture shows some more signs/symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Definitions of Yellow Terms from Picture
Derealization - feeling that the world is not real
Depersonalization- sense of being detached from ones body
Amnesia- failure to recall significant personal information
Identity Confusion/Alteration- confusion about who a person is (viewpoints, gender orientation etc.)
Prevalense
- Current statistics show that DID occurs in .01 to 1 percent of the general
population
Presentation
Me, Myself and Irene (2000) is the most recent in a progression of movies portraying the mental disorder of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Wrongly charged as a "schizophrenia satire", it stars Jim Carrey as a state trooper "whose (two) split characters fall for a similar lady after he neglects to take his mind-set stabilisers".1 The film isn't about schizophrenia, yet it mistakes this disease for DID. In that capacity, it is best found with regards to other DID films, involving an unmistakable classification. The original DID film was The Three Faces of Eve (1957), dominating Lizzie, discharged that year. Both depended on living people. The Three Faces of Eve portrayed a horrendous youth episode prompting the improvement of three separate characters, which are all reconstituted during the enthusiastic cleansing where Eve is faced with these facts. The genuine subtleties of this genuine story have been told by the genuine Eve, Chris Costner Sizemore. After a long history of numerous youth injuries, she gave mental indications, however introductory purifying treatment prompted more characters, an aggregate of twenty-two.2 This introduction compares near the current applied structure of DID as an unpredictable type of posttraumatic dissociative issue, profoundly connected with a past filled with serious injury, normally starting at an early age.3
Workmanship might be an innocuous mirror to the world, yet when film (craftsmanship) impersonates the state of DID, fascinating shared characteristics with the "truth" of the condition just as whimsical takeoffs from the genuine, illuminate
this questionable disorder.
Filmic portrayals of DID, previously known as various character issue, stick near the clinical disorder, as depicted by Putnam3 and as characterized in DSM-IV.4 Of the 22 DID movies recorded in table 1, 12 are from the previous decade, demonstrating the suffering prominence of the class. Six (set apart with mark) are "biopics", that is, they depict the "genuine story" of people with DID. As opposed to the true to life portrayal of numerous mental diseases, to which clients and experts could protest, these movies specifically reflect ebb and flow ideas, and could fill in as showing material for DID.4 In Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944), a lady separates and starts another life as a wanderer following a rape. Youth injury keeps on having amazing aetiological status in later movies: Prey of the Chameleon (1991), Raising Cain (1992), Color of Night (1994), Separate Lives (1994), Voices From Within (1994) and Never Talk To Strangers (1995). The vast majority of the movies in table 1 are investigator stories in which the DID individual includes an additional layer of multifaceted nature to a "whodunnit" yarn, be it as criminal (Maroc 7), analyst (Night Visions), clinician (Separate Lives) or unfortunate casualty (Color of Night). Most of DID movies are spine chillers: Primal Fear (1996) accompaniesthe wholesalers' request not to uncover the shock ending.
Quotes
 “Man how the hell can they call Pluto a planet? No motherfucking planet has an elliptical orbit. This shit don't make no sense.”
"Hank Evans : Holy Jesus in heaven! it's a giant Q-tip.
Irene P. Waters : Hank!
Hank Evans : What? I'm jokin' with the guy. Bringin' a little
sunshine into his life. Careful, you'll peel."
Hank Evans:Â Warden. I want my own cell.
“Charlie's like origami, he folds under pressure.”
“- Charlie: I have to take a pill every six hours or I feel... funny. No big deal.
- Irene: What's it called?
- Charlie: Advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.”
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