What movie shows the ultimate ADHD feelings to you?

I think Point Break when they are sky diving, and when Kionan Reaves surfs at night and gets a good wave and says it is like when you loose yourself and find yourself at the same time. It's a inner peace and adrenaline rush thing.

X-Man

:eyebrow: Pulp Fiction has a very ADDish feel IMO.

Crazy :cool:

Brain Candy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Old one)


There are more, I just can't think of all of em right now:o ;)

The Breakfast Club comes to mind, at least to my mind.

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The Wedding Crashers. (0:

starmans mine alltime fav an reflets adhd feel to it dorm

Matchstick Man seems to be more OCD issues, I think. But he might be "labeled" as an ADD type.

As Good as It Gets is another character with some OCD issues.

The Aviator was another character with serious OCD issues.

I wonder what diagnosis would be given to those characters today in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Today we have terms like ADD, but back then they used terms like schizophrenia to have a much broader meaning.
I haven't seen Fight Club but do wonder about people like that who fight for sport. That sounds like it might be some complusion perhaps.

I forgot about Phenomanon. You know the part where he says he can feel the life force in the tree. It seems like that to me too. It's like absorbing the nature to the point of becoming a part of it.

X-Man

Well movies like Fight Club and A Beautiful Mind deal more with schizophrenic delusions Sepia.

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A few more to throw into the mix - look out for the high flying Speedoing Aviator - :-) - in Stabile's thread (http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18897) on perspectives in on ADD on&in film.

SB.

"Waking Life" is another one. It's pretty much all philosophy, but it's rotoscope animation, which I'm not a big fan of but it makes me think of ADD. Different styles of animation for different segments of the movie. Shapes and forms alway changing and morphing. interesting and it somtimes hurts my eyes. lol

...waking life... elegantly expresses the emergence of ADD ... ... ... it's the basis to discussions here of the link between allergy and ADD - histamine the common link - histamine the neurotransmitter of the waking state -
<take it away uncontroversial 'Wikiwikipaedia' extract> ...

It has been shown that histaminergic cells have the most wakefulness-related firing pattern of any neuronal type thus far recorded. They fire rapidly during waking, fire more slowly during periods of relaxation/tiredness and completely stop firing during REM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement) and non-REM sleep. Histaminergic cells can be recorded firing just before an animal shows signs of waking.

Though - for another thread, I guess ... however - to re-iterate ...

from forum thread :: creative ADDers (http://www.addforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=260970&postcount=2) (Nova)

' ... and the dreamers are a-waking.'
nocturn,aerial
Katherine Bush.

SB.

waking life - a very appropriate description of the emergence of ADD

I figure something like Scary Movie 3 has that... especially when George is in the rapper battle :D

Scary Movie????? Apparently this would be for the not so hyper crowd who has the abilityto sit through a 90 minute movie?

Fried Green Tomatoes btw-the bee lady Iigy!

"You misunderstand me completly. I would gladly die for my friends. But I cannot live for them."
~Howard Roarke
'The Fountainhead' Exactly, Aizlyne! and Rand is/was one of my favorite authors...And the movie was OK. Were ANY of her characters ADD? yes, if we're lumping in expansive mindsets with ADD. ???

The Big Lebowski...
Michael with Travolta. He seems to be in a lot of those movies. His credits are amazing. Torrentino is out there too. Kill Bill just hyperfocus in those movies.
Shame on me, I keep thinking of ditzy people like Meg Ryan or Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon. Marisa Tomei in My Brother Vinne.
I think my fundamental 'impression' of ADD has changed./is changing...

I read through your site references, SB. As I always do. You and Stabile (where are they?) sure have a way of using a whole lot of vocabulary sometimes to say simple stuff... ya hey dare....

Exactly, Aizlyne! and Rand is/was one of my favorite authors...And the movie was OK. Were ANY of her characters ADD? yes, if we're lumping in expansive mindsets with ADD. ???
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I've only read the Fountainhead but I want to read Atlas Shrugged soon. She has a lot of interesting thoughts and a very stark philosophy. Some things ring true, not so much for others but in general she has some of the most fascinating characters I have ever encountered in books. I don't think Howard has ADD in particular. I think he is somewhat of a narcisist, but he isn't vain in the same way a narcisist is.

Scary Movie????? Apparently this would be for the not so hyper crowd who has the abilityto sit through a 90 minute movie?Are you kidding??? This movie is completely for hyper people like me :D

One of my friends rolled off the couch laughing (literally, and seriously!)

One of my friends rolled off the couch laughing (literally, and seriously!)Read the collected works of Diane DiMassa's "Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist". I did and it was a time I actually fell off the couch LMAO until my stomach hurt!

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How about Pauley Shore in "Son In Law"

OK Guys Here's a Thought,

Movie, "Last Action Hero" Do you feel like the character that was in a movie and all of the sudden you are in the real world and don't know what to do?

X-Man

Jim Henson's "Dark Crystal" strikes me as appealing to the ADD mind. Mainly due to the insane production design by Brian Froud. Lot's of color and strange backgrounds. Lot's to take in . It's almost overstimulation to watch that movie.

Equilibrium is very ADHD to my eyes!

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Hi Aizlyne,

I noticed you like design and illustration. Could you put some of your work on the creative section of this site. I would like to see some of it. The dream state of ADHD allows many vivid illustration avanues. Stick with it. Let your mind open to the possibilities.

X-Man

Hi Aizlyne,

I noticed you like design and illustration. Could you put some of your work on the creative section of this site. I would like to see some of it. The dream state of ADHD allows many vivid illustration avanues. Stick with it. Let your mind open to the possibilities.

X-ManThank you for your support X-man. :) It feels good to have support for my creative ideas. Especially now since I"m having a bit of difficulty with them. I"m actually working on a painting right now. I have a deviant art page (which regretably hasn't been updated for about three months) but it has some of my work from this past year at college on it. I"ll pm you the link. I would post them here but the files are extremely big. (I'm also a bit shy about it) :o

Thanks again!

I do love movies that have an emphasis on artistic design. I apreciate a hard working and creative artist:) As you can tell from my avatar, "Spirited Away" is another movie that is tremendously detailed with respect to conceptual design.

Ah! but not really ADD related. I digress.:o

I watched 'Nadine', last night.

I swear...the entire bunch o' characters, in it, has ADD/HD. (0:

You look at a lot of pictues. Does David look like Patrick from Road House to you?

Thank you for your support X-man. :) It feels good to have support for my creative ideas. Especially now since I"m having a bit of difficulty with them. I"m actually working on a painting right now. I have a deviant art page (which regretably hasn't been updated for about three months) but it has some of my work from this past year at college on it. I"ll pm you the link. I would post them here but the files are extremely big. (I'm also a bit shy about it) :o

Thanks again!

I do love movies that have an emphasis on artistic design. I apreciate a hard working and creative artist:) As you can tell from my avatar, "Spirited Away" is another movie that is tremendously detailed with respect to conceptual design.

Ah! but not really ADD related. I digress.:o

I'm afraid I"ve never seen Road House:o. I've heard of it. Never seen it.

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You tell me, the one on the right is Patrick.
I'm afraid I"ve never seen Road House:o. I've heard of it. Never seen it.

LOL yeah I see it. Seperated at birth no doubt.

Chris Rich is the one in the middle. His sister was my girlfriend in college.

She looks kind of like Nova, but Nova puts her to shame.

http://h1.ripway.com/wavecatcher/images/WebChrisRich.jpg
LOL yeah I see it. Seperated at birth no doubt.

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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/kzrainbow/whistling.gif Yummmy....

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The challenge of the unknown is the spark in the eye of the one that trys to achieve it. Isn't that the draw and intrigue of the adventure? The picture already holds you and you are looking to find the correct path. It should hold the same perils that the picture holds and rewards you keep secret. Or, a reflection revisited in the vu to love like in a pastel place you place the balance of your happiness and vunerabilities.

What is thought?

X-Man





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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/kzrainbow/whistling.gif Yummmy....

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likes the martixs....cos lifes alot like that...wounders who i look like lol dorm

send forth your wisdom and show the wound

thats a good movie crazy feet seen it dorm

In pettyness we become weak in triiumph we become strong

inside is scary but it is all we have when we share it becomes one

send forth your wisdom and show the woundI sincerely wish I was able to right now X-Man! Between this dryer and the Baby I simply cannot wax philosophical like I typically do. I am frustrated by this situation too, believe me http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/kzrainbow/rant-1.gif !!!

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thats a good movie crazy feet seen it dormYes and it presents a lot to think about, too.

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We have found the heart

yes a futcer a lot peps who like control would have cos knowgde is power for them who have it what other films you like c reazt feet whats you best adhd film type??? if there is one? ,,,,,who best villion an hero youve seen so far? dorm

For inside you is the answer. It's always hardest to let go of what hurts, but releases the most love. You wont be empty we will be there for you. Kinda of a crush for a real heart. Only in our world though. Busy Mom, Give Us the glimmer. please


yes a futcer a lot peps who like control would have cos knowgde is power for them who have it what other films you like c reazt feet whats you best adhd film type??? if there is one? ,,,,,who best villion an hero youve seen so far? dorm

For inside you is the answer. It's always hardest to let go of what hurts, but releases the most love. You wont be empty we will be there for you. Kinda of a crush for a real heart. Only in our world though. Busy Mom, Give Us the glimmer. pleasePain gives us strength. for without it we have no concept of it's opposite, pleasure. All opposites are two sides of the same coin. There can be no good without evil, for how would one appreciate what is good without evil as a reference?


oh and...another ADHD movie...Alice in Wonderland