

Curiously Moore herself has developed a mild OCD. Despite Moore’s outstanding performance, the film is a dramatised lecture on the cruelty of Alzheimer’s, and very painful to watch. Or a tragedy, like Still Alice (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, 2014), in which Julianne Moore plays a linguistic expert who suffers from Alzheimer’s.

Brooks, 1997), in which Jack Nicholson plays an unsociable character fit into a conventional formula that drags toward the happy ending. A comedy, in the model of As Good as It Gets (James L. In general, we see two genres of movies that touch on the issue of mental illness. How is cinema reflecting these statistics? Currently, less than 10% of people with OCD is under treatment. One of four people in the world will suffer from mental illness at some point of their lives, with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as one the most common problems.
