On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Scott Furtwengler wrote:
 
> I am looking for original films or adaptations which include a main or
> secondary character with mental disability.  Especially a character through
> whose perspective the narrative is filtered/represented, something like
> Benjy Compson's character in The Sound and the Fury.  Even peripheral
> characters as in Do the Right Thing or City of Hope may be helpful.  Of Mice
> and Men, Forrest Gump, and Gilbert Grape all come to mind, but if someone
> could point me to a film in which the p.o.v. is from the character with the
> disability.
>
> Interested in how the characters and their p.o.v. are represented
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott Furtwengler
> SIUC
> Scott R. Furtwengler
> Morris Library, SIUC
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Sissy Spacek did a film in the early 1970s called _Badlands_, where she
plays a dim girl who can't understand why her life is so difficult.
Sorry, I don't have a year or a director.
 
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