Mental is a film released in 2012 directed by PJ Hogan and stars Toni Collette. The last film Toni Collette and PJ Hogan worked on together was Muriel's Wedding. This film was based on a real life event that the director PJ Hogan faced. Muriel's Wedding was about PJ Hogans sister and her wedding. While on the set of this film, Pj Hogan and Toni Collette were talking about Hogans nanny - a woman named Shaz. Hogans' dad had seen a woman waiting to go somewhere and decided to help her out and trusted her based on the fact that she had a dog. He then asked her to act as a nanny for his children because their mother had been taken into an institute.Hogan had said Shaz was the one person who helped his family through the time even t though "she was nuts". Within the first few days she was instantly able to better the girls' lives and towards the end she was taken in to the same institue as girls mother. So the young sisters broke in and helped Shaz to escape. Over the course Shaz helped the girls to see they did not have mental disorders but those around them did.
This is similar to my thriller with the aspect of the disorder. The main character in my thriller suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). If the film was to continue past 3 minutes I would show one of the friends in of the main character swapping around the medication so that the condition would not be able to be controlled. Towards the end, it would represent something similar to the end of Mental. This would show the different sides to normality, the friend swapping the medicine would be seen as the troubled one and one character with DID would be seen as the perfectly "normal" person.
This here is a review of the film which explains the concept of the film:
Here is the trailer of the film.
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