Primal Fear Essays - Cinema Of The United States, Films, Neo-noir

Primal Fear The movie Primal Fear has a lot of recognizable stars that has had roles in major movies and television shows. Richard Gere (Martin Vail) and Edward Nort o n (Aaron Stampler) were the main two characters, Gere was the defendant lawyer for Norton in the movie . There was also Laura Linney (Janet Venable) who was the prosecutor and the beautiful Alfre Woodard (Shoat) who was the Judge. Some other stars were John Mahoney ( Shaughnessy) the states attorney in the movie who was corrupt and then there was Frances Mcdormand (Dr. Molly), she played as the psychologist in the film. I can't forget the mastermind behind the art Gregory Hoblit, this man did a great job constructing the visual to feed to the fans. The movie primal Fear was released in the greatest year of our time, 1996. The writer wrote a good story line for the movie. A defense lawyer Martin Vail who only cares about gaining money and fame from the cases he takes . His most recent case involves a young boy named Stampler that works in a church under the archbishop. The boy was blamed for the murder of the archbishop and now Martin Vail is the one who has taken on the job of proving he's innocent. Martin Vail ends up going against one of the lawyers that was under him at a point in time , Janet Venable, she was also his lover in the past too. The more you get into the movie you find out some dark secrets that the church had hidden. The writ er tells disturbing things about the history of the archbishop and multiple students in the school. He made them perform sexual actions on video. Stampler Vail realizes he got his self into something deeper than he expected. During one of the conversations between vail and Stampler, Stampler had switched personalities and snapped on Vail. To better help analyze Stampler, Vail brought in a psychiatrist named Molly to talk too Stampler to see exactly why he attacked Vail. Deeper in the movie Vail has to prove to the court that Stampler has an illness. The person who finally reveals Stamplers other side is the prosecutor Janet Venable. A psychological issue that I found in the movie is the fact that Stampler supposedly had Multiple Personality disorder. He would switch people in his mind when one of his persons in his head felt threatened. Another issue that was addressed in the movie is that Stampler was abused as a child. That can always cause a person to be mentally damaged in life as they grow older. In this movie the you would think the victim was only Stampler, but Vail and Molly both were victims too. These two became victims when they started helping Stampler, because the whole time they believed he really didn't commit the crime. Vail has gone multiple cases without having a personal feeling or thought for the people and their problem. He even brought in a good friend (Molly) to help him win the case. The people who committed the act against Vail and Molly was Stampler and his other person in his head . Luckily Stamplers had a break down in court. He changed the minds of the jury and the jud ge and convinced them that he had a disorder. Stampler beat the case by pleading insane, so instead of going to prison for life he has to get help with his mental disorder. Its various ways psychology wa s used in this movie. One of the ways psychology was used is when Vail used Vendale to make Stampler snap in court and expose his disorder. He made her believe that he was trying to come up with a plan to win the case. Knowing that she put pressure on Stampler as he was on the stand. Psychology was also used by Molly so she could get better information from Stampler. She asked plenty of questions so she could get a better understanding of what was inside Stamplers head and his thoughts. Near the end of the movie Stampler exposes himself to Vail. He shared that he was pretending to have the