The World is Crazy

This is a saying that I've heard plenty of times.  You see someone walk by on the street doing something abnormal, and you think to yourself, "The world is full of crazy people."  But interestingly enough, these are the people that fascinate me.  They interest me so much I'd love to sit down and spend time with them.  My family calls me crazy because usually you would attempt to avoid these types of people, but I want to embrace them.

"Shutter Island" is the movie that sparked my interest in the most hopeless of all psychiatric cases.  It is about a man who has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  In the movie, his wife has Bipolar Disorder and it is actually so severe that she drowns her own kids.  Leonardo DiCaprio plays the role of the man with PTSD very well.  He exemplifies every emotionally symptom very accurately so that the viewer understands his side of the story.  The movie takes you through a couple days at the psychiatric hospital with DiCaprio, who believes himself to be sane and only present in the hospital to solve a mystery.  He thinks that he is a detective and that the hospital is simply trying to claim him as insane so that they can do tests on him.  Unfortunately toward the end the viewer sees the truth, that DiCaprio does have severe PTSD and avoids the memory of his wife killing their three children.


DiCaprio held my interest throughout the movie but I couldn't help but wonder, "Who is in Ward C?"  Ward A, B,C refer to the parts of the hospital in which the patients stay.  Separated by : women, men, and I guess you can call them, other?  Ward C (other) houses the most dangerous patients.  But to me, the most interesting. They don't scare me because I know that we are all just people and we all go crazy sometimes.