12 Movies You Didn’t Notice Were About Mental Illness
2. Alice In Wonderland
For a film that references madness so much, its probably not surprising that a few characters in Disneys 1951 animation might be suffering from a few issues themselves. Consider this: Alice is not actually dreaming and the world and characters she meets are really the product of a schizophrenic hallucination in which even the characters she creates are like flicking through the pages of a medical dictionary, from the Queen of Hearts narcissism to the White Rabbits anxiety and OCD. Interestingly, Tim Burtons 2010 version of Alice of Wonderland was chosen for its surreal tone in a Finnish study that aimed to determine whether psychosis could be detected in patients by examining activity in a certain part of their brain while they watched the film. It could, but then a lot of peoples brains reacted negatively to the film so maybe take those results with a pinch of salt.
