In 1964, a film about mental illness patients who live in a mental ward was produced. The movie named Lilith was about a woman who was a patient in the asylum. Her name was Lilith and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. A man named Vincent had returned from war and wanted to have a position that was important in his hometown. He interviewed and got hired for an occupational position at the mental institution where Lilith was staying.
Lilith has a belief that she is to use her body for sexual favors. She is happy, though and interacts with the other patients in a way of exception. When Vincent take Lilith on outings from the asylum they interact in ways that she should not be experiencing. “Vincent had fallen into a love triangle with Lilith and caused a patient to kill himself because of Lilith” .
The people who were in society had seemed sicker at times in Lilith. This was reflected by the unhappiness and thoughts that people had expressed in the film. A person who has a mental illness such as Lilith can seem more normal on occasion than sane people in society. The people she came in contact with had involved themselves into Lilith web of her own delusional world. In the film the significance of being sick seems more surreal into the society in which Lilith ventures than in the asylum in which she stays. People are sick in their own ways depending on how the sickness is viewed in society. Each person in the film relates to Lilith in a different way that seems like at times these people are sick. The normalcy of the society reflects the environment of Lilith on her outings and relationships. Society can make individuals sick.
Work Cited
Lilith. Dir. Robert Rossen. Perf. Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda,Kim Hunter,Jessica Walter,Gene Hackman Warren Beatty. 1964. Film.
