Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction

The movie Fatal Attraction was a very interesting movie, and it caught my attention very quickly. It started out with everything being normal until Dan decides to cheat on his wife while she goes out of town for a few days. The woman he cheated one his wife with was also someone he had a few meetings with at work. Their little fling escalated quickly and Alex started falling apart scene by scene.

Psychology was portrayed and related in various ways throughout the movie. The first thing that caught my attention was after Dan slept with Alex, things began to get a little rocky. Alex started falling deeply for him. Dan didn't feel the same way about Alex which caused her to show her true personalities. When Dan is about to leave her house she is perfectly fine, but when he was trying to tell her he had to go and his wife was coming back home she snapped quickly. It all happened really fast, she was happy one second and then screaming and hitting the next, then happy again. A great example would be when Dan is leaving she's nice and says bye, then goes crazy and kicks him in the back, now a split second later Alex says, "Let's be friends," with a big smile. I'd describe her behavior as having bipolar disorder, which kept getting worse as the movie continued.

Personally I would label her as an emotional wreck, this woman was literally psychotic. A few moments later she cut her self so Dan wouldn't leave. Anyone could tell she was craving attention. She was becoming obsessed. After Alex went to the extreme of cutting herself, she started stalking him; everywhere he went she was there harassing him.

This movie also relates to psychology because Alex suffers from more than one disorder. She suffered from bipolar disorder and major depression because at times she was completely zoned out. I would also diagnose her with borderline personality disorder because Alex was two different people in the blink of an eye. One time in the movie she was a nice, sweet woman, and then she became a crazy, mean, delusional woman who acted as if she was disconnected from the world.

When Alex to it to the dangerous level and kidnapped the married couple's daughter, that was taking it too far. If they wouldn't have killed her, I definitely would've put her in a psychiatric hospital, then in prison for the rest of her lifetime. At some point and