Hypochondriacs are persons who, without being ill, the brain works making them fell the symptoms of the illness. The mental acceptance makes it so strong that the thought of an illness cam become something real and dangerous.
Associated, in the movie The Number 23, directed by Joel Schumacher, Walter Sparrow, starred by Jim Carrey, after reading a novel, develops an obsessive unconscious involvement to the novel’s story.
Walter Sparrow has triggered a child trauma, when he saw his mother murderer, after his father suicide and one opened agenda with a twenty-three number drawn. Probably the he associated, in an unconscious way, all this deaths and bad things happened with the number 23, developing paranoia.
The paranoids reached in such a high level that Walter’s suffer leaded him to try to suicide. This try was frustrated, but it led to a serious sequel: lost of memory. Despite that , he tried to go on with his life normally, he married and had a child. Everything was going good until the day that his wife gave him a book about the number 23.
This book was written by him, before he lost his memory, and it was about his life, about his paranoia and about crimes that he committed because of his psychological imbalance. Without knowing this, Walter Sparrow, read the book and he indentified too much with the history and the paranoia with the number 23, which was forgotten early has returned to the fore. Many weird thoughts and dreams were coming into his mind.
The movie offers the unroll of a traumatized mind, as well the attitudes and thoughts of the disturbed character. It doesn’t cover, however, tolls to interpret and understand the symptomatic roots of the paranoia which the protagonist is stricken to. Perhaps this is, probably, why Sparrow has advanced so much in his dysfunction.
