You're a psychology student and have to write a case study. Which of these mentally afflicted characters (all Oscar nominated or winning performances) would you choose as subject for your paper?
May contain SPOILERS as the mental state of some of the characters is only revealed in the course of the film, or at the end.
FREDDIE QUELL - the alcoholic World War II veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and struggling to adjust to a post-war society (Joaquin Phoenix)
The mentally challenged ARNIE GRAPE (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is, among other things, afraid of getting into water after being left in the bath overnight on one occasion
KARL CHILDERS - the killer with a developmental disability and a traumatic childhood, who is released after spending many years in a mental institution (Billy Bob Thornton)
The paranoid schizophrenic JACK ARNOLD ALEXANDER TANCRED GURNEY, 14TH EARL OF GURNEY - who thinks he is God, and when cured of that delusion turns into Jack the Ripper (Peter O'Toole)
CHARLY GORDON (Cliff Robertson), the man with a cognitive disability struggling to survive in the modern world, who through a medical experiment becomes more logically advanced, until he is a pure gen…
FIONA ANDERSON (Julie Christie) - the Alzheimer patient who, when institutionalized, transfers her affection away from her husband of over 40 years to a co-patient of hers.
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