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The Fisher King

In the movie The Fisher King, performed in 1991,a man named Jack was a DJ a talk radio station. The purpose of this radio station was for people to call in and discuss their problems. On one particular call, a man named Edwin called to talk about is affection towards a certain woman. The DJ was extremely rude to the man, telling him that he was stupid for thinking that he would ever have a chance with her. The man Edwin, was sad and depressed. He walked into a bar with a shotgun killing seven people before turning the gun on him self. The next day Jack was watching the news and heard about the terrible tragedy. Jack felt like a failure and quit his job. He became a lush and could not handle his grief anymore. One night he got drunk and tied bricks to his ankle to drown himself. In the middle of him doing so, some teenage hoodlums were out doing no good and intended to beat him up. Before they got a chance to, a homeless man scares the boys away. With Jack drunk and unconcionce, the man took him to his home. The homeless man’s name is Perry. He claims to be a knight on a quest


I chose this movie because I think it did a good job of portraying a schizophrenic. I think it is strange how the human mind can control the delusions and hallucinations of a person. I can not imagine what it would be like to spontaneously loose my mind, have no control over my sight and hearing, and not know what is reality or not.

I think cases like Perry’s is strange. How can a man with a normal life, a fine education, and no symptoms of schizophrenia , can all of a sudden lose his sanity. Perry’s diagnoses was from a sociocultural point of view. Something tragic in his life set off something in his brain in which he was prone to schizophrenia all along.The sociocultural point of views have been influential but are not accurate. I believe Perry’s Schizophrenia, was triggered by this horrible event in which he tried to repress the memory by thinking and seeing illogical things.

to find the Holy Grail, which is located in a house down the street.

Perry had a psychological ailment called schizophrenia. He has the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. The symptoms are, Delusions, disorganized th

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Holy Grail, Jack DJ, Lydia Jack, Perry’s Schizophrenia, Fisher King, holy grail, symptoms schizophrenia, fisher king, mind control, knight quest, evil knight, jack dj, radio station,

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