Schizophrenia

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2006)

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie both because it was interesting, and because I felt that it was a fairly accurate portrayal of a well-known mental disorder: schizophrenia. I felt the need to post something about this topic somewhere on this page because I just can't believe that no one else has mentioned it yet. Everyone seems so confused about what all the symbolism means, and why he was having these massive headaches, and why he was incapable of natural human contact. Well folks, Max is a textbook schizophrenic. While there may be a great deal of symbolism entailed in his hallucinations, he is a schizophrenic---and knowing that alone should help some people "make sense" of this movie.