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Megan was....

posted 14 years ago by metalmaharani
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Psychic not Schizophrenic... Whether you thought the movie was a 1 or 10.. Just sayin

A paper man cut into shreds
By his own pair of scissors
He'll never forgive her

[–] ladydesdemonna 14 years ago

That's the same conclusion I came to as the movie progressed.

[–] IMDBUser1969 13 years ago

The movie implies she had the ability to see the dead AND had mental illness, not that her ability to see that dead was MISTAKEN for mental illness. There's a lot of evidence she was straight up mentally ill; more than likely she hallucinated dead people - not actually saw them.

[–] Antigoneoooo 13 years ago

Megan being psychic and haunted by her visions is what ultimately caused her to have breakdowns/be mentally ill.

[–] sburt4-831-484347 13 years ago

I got the same feeling as well. I kept going back and forth on that.

[–] ShrinkMD 13 years ago

To call her psychic would imply that she was able to "see" or predict events that had not yet happened. Her "visions" were hallucinations surrounding the case; there was nothing about them that enabled her to "see the future."

In my opinion she was portrayed as psychotic but certainly not psychic.

[–] Lgirl716 13 years ago

Do you mean psychotic? She certainly wasn't psychic.

[–] dacaria-1 12 years ago

Psychic not Schizophrenic... Whether you thought the movie was a 1 or 10.. Just sayin

I thought the same thing. I thought she was perhaps clairvoyant and this case brought it to the surface. Not understanding her abilities, she tried to silence the voices by ending her life. The doctors didn't understand and diagnosed her with Adult schizophrenia and drugged her up. The thorazine blocked her ability to see and hear them and this forced the ghosts to try harder to communicate. That was my take on the movie, which I liked by the way. Except for the ending, I think that last scene by the river is what caused her true breakdown. Megan's last thoughts were "The dead have given me their answers and the dead won't let me forget." This could be a clue that was was clairvoyant. All in all, it was a good way to kill 2 hours on a sunday evening.