Have you watched Malecifent?

I was wondering if you watched the movie Maleficent? Do you think that the character displays certain features of a person with BPD? She is very vindicative, acts impulsively and angry when she feels threatened, divides people into "all good" and "all bad". The explanation given is that she became like this because she had her heary broken by her love. I tend to agree that people may go mad, develop depression or do stupid things when experienced a heartbreak. People have different coping mechanisms when they suffer. But people with BPD seem to seek revenge on those who hurt them. Are you similar?

HopelessRomantic wrote:I was wondering if you watched the movie Maleficent? Do you think that the character displays certain features of a person with BPD? She is very vindicative, acts impulsively and angry when she feels threatened, divides people into "all good" and "all bad". The explanation given is that she became like this because she had her heary broken by her love. I tend to agree that people may go mad, develop depression or do stupid things when experienced a heartbreak. People have different coping mechanisms when they suffer. But people with BPD seem to seek revenge on those who hurt them. Are you similar?

Hi, I've seen it and thought exactly the same. I loved it because I felt I related to her character so much! For all the reasons you mentioned. I do think that with a lot of people though, not just people with BPD, it is natural to want revenge after a break up, especially if they wronged you or betrayed you deeply in some way. When I split up with my ex I was absolutely crazy. I wanted to hurt him so badly. I kept plotting really awful things that would have got me arrested. I did make his life hell for some time afterwards lol I think maybe it is just more extreme with BPD.
Great film, I can't wait for it to come out on DVD!

Yes, that is true that many people want to take revenge if somebody treats them in a wrong way, but I think these are the borderlines who actually take a positive action.

I haven't seen the movie, but I imagine the character would have some very good characteristics of it, and most likely for the same reason that Jolie was considered a better Borderline than Ryder in "Girl, Interrupted." She was diagnosed with "presumptive" BPD (whatever the presumptive part means) back in the late 90's. So when asked to play a vindictive role, I'm sure she could pull it off with authenticity.

(Not saying this with any malice towards her; while I'm not a huge of every movie Jolie has done, the ones I have liked, I think she did a killer job on.)

I think that Jolie played a sociopath in "Girl Interrupted", or at least somebody diagnosed as a sociopath. Lisa, the character she played, had some borderline traits as well, e.g. self-harm. I am not sure, though, if self-harm is an element of BPD or it just a symptom which may indicate that the person has BPD. I think that Jolie also admitted she used to self-harm when she was young.

Whatever her disorder is, she is definitely a very good actress.

IDK what Maleficent's diagnosis is, since she wasn't very mood-swingy or self-mutilating or suicidal. She technically only meets 4/9 traits for BPD, which means she doesn't quite meet the DSM-IV criteria of 5/9 criteria being met. But she definitely has Borderline traits.

But I related to her as a very-vindictive sexual assault survivor.

The whole movie, if you look at it, is a rape allegory.

When they had the scene where she lost her "wings", I was shocked that it was allowed because it was such a graphic rape metaphor.

I really related to her, though. Just because of the whole "You wronged me, so I'll do anything to make you damn well miserable," thing. The Borderlines I know seem to have more of a sense of remorse than she did. She later realized that what she did to Aurora was wrong, but a Borderline would probably take her remorse out on herself, at least going by the Borderlines that I know, and my own Borderline traits.