Fight Club

Dr Peter Byrne found that "our understanding of mental health problems… comes from many sources- real-life experiences, printed literature, in news media and characters in drama and film."The problem is that Brad Pitt plays the character and he is seen as the 'ideal' man and so just by using him glorifies the illness as well as leading people to becoming infatuated with the idea of mental illness. The film also may not portray truly how personality disorders are, this is seen as in the underground car park the carer flicks to the CCTV one and sees the narrator hitting himself and pulling himself along the floor.

The 'reveal' in the film comes from Pitt's character Tyler Durden as he tell Norton's that they are the same person and so this is how the audience finds out that the narrator has dissociative identity disorder. As Tyler sits in the arm chair in the hotel room with a cigarette in his mouth he is seen as "cool, and one of the most contributing factors to that is that he’s so messed up." This is seen through Pitt's performance as he tells the narrator they are the same person and that Marla knows too much, hinting that maybe she should be killed.

Dr Peter Byrne found that resolutions to mental health in films will happen "quickly and in an idealised way: cured by falling in love and dark secrets revealed." In the end the narrator wants Tyler to go and so gets rid of him quickly by shooting himself in the face this also makes people assume that people with mental health can physically rid themselves of their mental health problems instead of psychologically. Also after he has shot himself and miraculously survived and Marla is there with him holding his hand as the other buildings explode. This resolution comes quick and the ending scene of the two holding hands as the camera tracks away from them whilst The Pixies Where Is My Mind plays non-diegeticly makes for a very positive ending.