What's the problem with split?
So I went to see split today especially excited because of the anger from Tumblr about it. What I saw was not only a fantastic movie but showed everyone complaining had not even considered watching it. (Spoilers) If you watch the movie you’ll notice that the main character with split personality disorder isn’t shown as a bad person or an antagonist, only a few personalities are shown as such and even then they have reasoning behind why they act such a way. He has a therapist who believes he’s a human like everyone else or even has an advantage over other humans. It shows her trying to spread awareness of the disorder and tries very hard to help and understand him and her other patients with a similar disorder. He has 24 personalities and all but 3 are good and 1 is just naive as he is a child’s personality. The rest are all just normal personalities and shown as nothing else. They show guilt and remorse for the evil ones actions and actively work against them. I don’t see how this is showing people with mental disorders as less than people and I related to Kevin (body of the main antagonist personalities) at some points. I never at one point thought of him as bad except when the bad personalities were present. This doesn’t show him as bad because bad people exist and he happened to embody within himself them but overall he functioned well and had nothing inheritely wrong with him. The rest of the movie was fantastic and had many amazing details that recent horror movies of a somewhat similar nature (human antagonist instead of supernatural) completely failed to have. I wanted to focus specifically on the uproar over such a movie without seeing it though.