R.D. Laing in his books exposed the massive influence of dysfunctional families in creating schizophrenia. The same analysis could be done in this film of how the family creates Lisa's disorder...
I only hope that Lisa can read Laing, as no-one in the film was really offering her this perspective and it could help. Yes, she has been hysterical and shown no care for her parents at times, but this bad behaviour looks like part of a cycle ... after all, her mother's equally desperate approach to life is when she suggests seriously that the way out is a suicide pact for the whole family. Deeply scary and so sad.
Neither mother nor daughter is helping the other to live and it's hard to take sides as to where the fault lies, but I think - if they wanted to live - someone would have to help each of them to entangle the deathly games they are embroiled in. They are toxic for each other!
I only hope that Lisa can read Laing, as no-one in the film was really offering her this perspective and it could help. Yes, she has been hysterical and shown no care for her parents at times, but this bad behaviour looks like part of a cycle ... after all, her mother's equally desperate approach to life is when she suggests seriously that the way out is a suicide pact for the whole family. Deeply scary and so sad.
Neither mother nor daughter is helping the other to live and it's hard to take sides as to where the fault lies, but I think - if they wanted to live - someone would have to help each of them to entangle the deathly games they are embroiled in. They are toxic for each other!