The research topic that interested me is Research Paper Idea #4 - Portraying Human Minds in Film.
For this topic, I am going to work around the movie A Beautiful Mind. The main character in this movie suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. When I was in high school, my psychology teacher showed us this movie. I remember how surreal things seemed/felt for him - especially with his "job". I should probably re-watch it again since I barely remember any of it.
This topic will work, though it is not so original if that interests you since other students will be writing on the same thing (and other students have written on this in the past). You will want to get a copy of the film (more on this on Monday), and look at it carefully, as well as starting research on the actual condition of schizophrenia. The basic research question to ask here is what the film gets right and wrong about the actual illness of schizophrenia? -Prof. D.
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