Hope i don't become a spoiler reviewing this movie.
As a Psychology student, it's inevitable that i link up things i'm exposed to in my daily life to stuff i learnt in school. So instead of doing a cliché review of narrating and promoting the movie, i'll see what i can come up with. :3
It was the first time i watched a movie purely through the lens of video cameras. The effects were much better and cooler than expected as it didn't make me feel dizzy any bit throughout the movie.
The movie started with the depiction of an abused teenager Andrew. The avoidant attachment style he had adopted towards his father since young made him develop inferiority, low agreeableness and high neuroticism. Despite those trauma he faced at home, he discovered his possession of a hidden talent in superpower manipulation after coming across a crystalline meteor with 2 other playful mates.
I'd highly suspect that Andrew had developed schizoid personality disorder as patients with schizoid PD lack interest in social relationships and prefer to engage in solitary activities. Andrew simply turned away the concern and care from his fellow buddies after mastering the use of his superpowers and subsequently indulged in philosophical readings on Darwin's theories. The problem with SPD demonstrated in the movie would be Andrew immersing himself in his internal fantasy world when he realised fiction had come to life in his attainment of the superpower. Obsession in his belief of Darwin's natural selection theory pushed him to explore his newly-attained abilities to the extent of exploiting them. On the other hand, i didn't think Andrew's one hardcore hopeless SPD case as he still sought for love and recognition from his cousin of which he got an ambiguous reply in return. The misinterpretation that he didn't mean anything to his best buddy/cousin resulted in all the tragedies that followed. Lesson here: Please say "I love you too" to your important ones, be it brother, sister, cousin, buddy, boyfriend, girlfriend when they pop "do you love me?" k! <3
It's quite saddening to witness the uncontrollable deterioration of the mental health in an untreated student with PD. A supposed superhero with anti-social personality disorder. How scary is it if this fictional character actually exists around us?! Anti-social personality disorder is defined by the US National Library of Medicine as "a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others." Criminals act ruthlessly because they feel no empathy, sympathy, compassion and remorse towards any others affected by their actions. This deficiency in these functional emotions in someone who possesses superpowers will unquestionably bring about chaos all around.
I couldn't help but to come up with some of these associations between the movie content and what i study in school everyday.
I won't say it's as good as Black Swan as a psych thriller but its combination with the dramatic actions makes it worth watching with your date this weekend. <3
Hearts.
P/s: Please support my first try on movie review by commenting. Thanks in advance.
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