Theme: Mad Person's Delusion

Mad Person’s Delusion is a body of films concerning themselves with depicting the mental states of people suffering from Disturbed Psychology. In these films, we are granted subjective insight into the often quite surreal processes that go on inside their head.

A frequent plot device is that of the Conceptual Reversal Twist where a film will pull back to reveal that all that has happened has been a delusion or a fugue state inside the mind of a mentally ill person. This is a trope that began with the German Expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919). Other works exist in a state of The Ambiguously Fantastic where we cannot be certain whether something is in the mentally ill person’s mind and what is real.