Borderline personality disorder

The thriller "Fatal Temptation" is starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close (Michael Douglas & Glenn Close). Douglas plays Dan, a wealthy and capable lawyer, who married a beautiful wife. They have a wonderful daughter, and both of them love their daughter deeply. At a business dinner, Dan met Alex, played by Cross, an enchanting and charming single girl, and was deeply attracted by him. Because his wife was there at the time, nothing happened between Dan and Alex. One weekend a few weeks later, Dan met Alex again during a business trip he attended alone. They flirted with each other and were attracted to each other. Dan didn't realize that this was a fatal temptation. They had sex several times, and both of them were ecstatic. There is a scene in which the two men lie on the bed after having sex, and the camera is pointed at the coffee pot boiling on the stove. This is a subtle hint of the consequences of their dangerous adultery relationship.
After this infidelity, Dan returned to his wife. Alex felt very sad that Dan tried to forget her. She both loved him and resented him for his departure. In the next few weeks, she called Dan's home and followed him secretly several times. Finally, she finally saw Dan and told him that she was pregnant with his child, and asked him to leave his wife and come to her. However, Dan asked her to have an abortion and made it clear that he did not intend to live with her. Alex is tormented in extreme love and hatred. She wants to monopolize Dan, thinking that to get him, she must remove the obstacles between them-Dan's wife and children. Alex began to threaten and harass Dan and his family constantly, and the film became more and more frightening.
At the beginning of the film, many viewers mistakenly regarded the role of Alex as a "lovable lover" and a "lunatic lover". In fact, she has shown features of borderline personality disorder several times. She has obvious interpersonal barriers. She is hovering between possessive and destructive desires, cruising on the verge of destroying herself and others. In the film, she becomes more and more aggressive because of her anger. The audience does not know whether she will destroy herself or others in the end. All of these are caused by a sense of abandonment, which is also one of the characteristics of borderline personality disorder. Abandonment or abandonment is one of the important causes of this obstacle, because they will define themselves through interpersonal relationships (such as "I am nothing without you"), and they are afraid of losing these relationships. However, because their emotions are strong and changeable, their interpersonal relationships are usually unstable, unsatisfactory, and often die, and this is what scares them the most.

Reference reading: In the film review, "Borderline Personality Disorder" comes from "Personality Psychology" (Second Edition) [United States] Randy Larson David Bass. Translated by Guo Yongyu and others.

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