Sybil

Dissociation acts as a defense mechanism within a person and often the sub types of the split of personalities are the one that deal with most of the issues in life. Split within a person happened are known when stressors occurred are too much to handle so that particular person chose to 'dissociate'. And when certain issue present that need to be deal with the 'switching' happened unconsciously from the host to sub identity. 

Sybil is a girl that dreamed to be a school teacher but dealing with her traumatic and abusive past which her mother cut her vagina with a knife unable to overcome and handle this stress Sybil dissociate into few sub types that are all children. As you can see as the movie progress Sybil showed how her sub types switched in order for her to faced her life and traumatic past.  

The movie started when Sybil as a kindergarten teacher brings her students to the park and in the park she saw the women in white hair and she started to dissociate and end up in the water where everyone saw her. The beginning has left audience confused which later only we realized her mother that abused her during her childhood having the same hair as well so she was afraid in the park and started to dissociate to protect herself. But why she 'woke up' on the pond? If you remembered closely her mother tied her to the piano without letting her to the toilet when she need to pee so she peed on the floor so she remembered the feeling where she ended up in the pond.

When Sybil that she needed the money to seek psychiatrist so he asked her father but after her father rejected her she acted violently and storms out. Soon she wanted to commit suicide to deal with this problem Mary came out and Vicky called Dr Wilbur to help Sybil and even Vicky even confess to Dr Wilbur about the presence of 'others'.

Sybil also depicted this illustration accurately and easily observable on this point in how she needs to meet Dr. Wilbur and Richard. Sybil (the host) is not very comfortable or good in meeting stranger especially guy that liked her and asked her out during night so to deal with this issue and Veronica that is outgoing and keep Sybil's music for Sybil she then go out with Richard.

In the midst of treatment Peggy and Vicky are mostly seen in seeing Dr Wilbur in therapy session to faced the issue instead of Sybil. Finally, Dr. Wilbur confronts Sybil about her problem, and convinces her to undergo hypnosis so she could discover her other personalities. Things seem to be going thoroughly well, until she meets the identity of her mother, upon which she screams and soon after dissociates into a baby. However, she recovers, and the next time she undergoes hypnosis, she recalls an incident when her mother drags up her up to the roof of her barn by her hands, and then locks her in a cabinet.

When Sybil wakes up, she tells Dr. Wilbur that she was making the whole thing up, and that she doesn’t really have multiple identities. She appears to not act negatively towards certain cues, and is a lot more lucid about her own past. However, Dr. Wilbur theorizes that all the identities have “blanded together” to keep her from uncovering what is underneath. She decides visits Sybil’s old town and speaks to the doctor that resided over Sybil when she was a child. There, she discovers that Sybil’s mother had paranoid schizophrenia, and the doctor admits that he simply ignored the vast and peculiar nature of injuries that Sybil had received.

When Dr. Wilbur returns and confronts Sybil about the purple crayon drew on the barn wood she was locked to proved Sybil's word, she admits to having tried to deceive her before. They undergo their last session of hypnosis, where Sybil recalls her mother having sexually abused her by cutting her vagina with a knife. She awakens to rage and bitterness, which Dr. Wilbur tells her to accept. The movie ends with all the different identities of Sybil walking towards her and embracing.

As with typical cases of DID, Sybil’s disorder spawned from extreme childhood abuse and trauma. Her violent, psychotic mother and neglectful father leaves such a scar in her past that her mind tore itself into several different pieces to isolate the pain. The portrayal of DID as a psychological coping method; Dr. Wilbur mentions many times that Sybil’s different “friends” are there to protect and take action when she herself cannot. Moreover, the movie does a great job of depicting the symptoms of DID. Sybil’s auditory hallucinations, which the audience can hear, pervade throughout the majority of the film. Furthermore, she is extremely anxious about her amnesia and loss of time – “Once, I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I was two years older”. Sybil also has several negative reactions towards unexplainable phobias, including the color purple, induced by the crayon that she had with her when her mother locked her in the barn. 

Finally, the film incorporates several brief traumatic flashbacks by shifting from the third person to Sybil’s view help set the troubled and ominous tone of the entire film.
The interaction between Dr. Wilbur and Sybil’s different identities presents a fairly accurate portrayal of the diagnosis and treatment of DID. The initial screening tests that Dr. Wilbur performs encourage the young girl’s mind to dissociate; she does this by presenting her with a myriad of questions, pictures, and scents that Sybil might have associated with trauma. In the psycho-therapeutic sessions, she confronts Sybil’s old experiences with questions such as “Why can’t you talk about what happened in the green kitchen?”. Finally, she employs the use of clinical hypnosis to aid Sybil in unlocking her past and her repressed anger and anxiety.

All in all, Sybil is an emotionally charged and highly powerful film that accurately portrays the suffering and eventual treatment of DID. It’s critical acclaim and public recognition gave a face and a story to DID, and shortly after the release of the film diagnoses for the disorder exploded. Whether or not these diagnoses were spurred mainly by media frenzy is still a matter of controversy, but it is undeniable that Sybil played an important role in helping DID victims gain the respect and empathy of the public.

Schindler's List

Schindler's List was directed by Steven Spielberg has bring the lesson to most of us especially Nazi on the horror of holocaust and the nature of genocide. Amon Goeth proved the ability of human to be that evil during the opportunities of war. And not the said how the German's soldiers survive after the war killing and burning the Jews, is like an on off button they are being set in a situation and when the cycle stop then only they realized it is wrong. The post process is interesting to find out on how they explained their action to restore their consistency in their discrepancies in their action and behaviour or maybe there is no any dissonance.

Oskar Schindler showed the progress of how he transit from a pure business minded man to the basic human instinct where he used his money to saved the Jewish life by buying each and everyone of them by name. He did not do it intentionally or consciously he is in the middle of doubting and use the list of for business purposes till he spent for millions saving their lives. During the movie we saw how Schindler emphasis on the way he bought them are purely for business purpose and he is so afraid of seeing through by others of his intention he even lied to himself to act it through all the way so that other German believe him. Very much suppressing himself to let the truth surface.

Thanks to Izhak his accountant that inspired or making him realized along the way about the how the German killed the Jewish. The torture that went along is unbearable to imagine how the Jewish survive from the war but is too much to talked about when it showed during the movie the importance of the emotions, psychological well being nor foods was not showed or discuss directly because the life of each Jews might lost anytime. What the Jewish concern the most is the hope they get alive got the next day till the war ends. Most of the faces of Jewish showed the acceptance of death and the inability to fight. That is why it is holocaust.

Even till the very end Schindler did not very much came to a conscious state on what he did is to saved people as the most unforgettable scene at last where they gave him the ring, he came to realized that he do not really deserve the recognition because he was behalf of them and he blame himself very much the fact that he could have save more lives. As he showed struggles in telling how his belonging can trade for lives, as we can see then only he can be fully himself on that moment admitting how much struggles he faced while witnessing Jewish getting killed but he stayed on his foot thinking he cannot do anything about it but in fact he' did something more than enough' said Izhak.

This movie taught a big lesson regarding the nature of human and the existence of humanity in human, if there is plainly conforming and obedience it showed how powerful this elements is and how weak human has for freewill. If human possess freewill we should act on our reasons and not controlled by others.

The one thing that very obvious symbolized the value of human lives are seen from a girl that wearing red where she is the only color can be seen through screen it can represents the innocence of Jewish that get slaughtered. The moment Schindler catches sight of her marks the moment when he is forced to confront the horror of Jewish life during the Holocaust and his own hand in that horror. The little girl also has a greater social significance. Her red coat suggests the “red flag” the Jews waved at the Allied powers during World War II as a cry for help. The little girl walks through the violence of the evacuation as if she can’t see it, ignoring the carnage around her. Her oblivion mirrors the inaction of the Allied powers in helping to save the Jews. Schindler later spots her in a pile of exhumed dead bodies, and her death symbolizes the death of innocence.

After all is it worth it after killing so many Jewish that German hated but does it really bring peace after that. We do not underestimate how foolish human beings can be blindly covered by revenge and hatred. The most unbearable scene are from how the Jews were sent to the camp and their belongings are ordered to marked down their names clearly but the luggage never follow them after that in fact the piling of personal belonging showed the lost of Jews during the holocaust and is very hard not to put yourself in the situation and being treated as objects. Every single picture shown are every single life that lost.

Is unbearable to imagine the mind of each children during the holocaust.