Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
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personally, i think that’s the whole plot of the movie. the main character gets pushed around so much that all of his anger and frustration build up into another side of him that comes out throughout the movie involuntarily. (if this explanation sucks, i’m sorry!)
Main character is diagnosed as an “advanced delusionary schizophrenic with involuntary narcissistic rage”, which is a fake condition they made up. But they are clearly depicting D.I.D. (however inaccurate that depiction may be).
A chicken has its head stuffed up a bad guy’s ass. Happens off-screen, we are only shown the aftermath. There’s also a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of two Rottweilers tied up in a junkyard, which has quite a few negative connotations of neglect in the animal welfare community.
There are absolutely no dead animals in this movie, unless you are counting the dead flies on Jim Carrey’s face. The cow is mentioned to be alive in a news broadcast, and is shown, still very much alive, at the end of the film. The chicken is also alive, despite being stuffed up someone’s bum.
A woman is touched sexually in public without warning or consent and she is visibly disturbed, a woman is tricked into having sex with someone she didn’t agree to have sex with, a man has sex and doesn’t know it and makes himself sore, a man is tied and assaulted, it is strongly suggested but later disproven that a man was planning to sexually assault and murder a woman. All of this is played off as a joke/done with comedic effect but a lot is shown and could be upsetting to some.
The albino guy jokes about murdering his family in their sleep with a hammer but nothing is actually shown. He seems to tell Irene and Charlie/Hank different stories.
Charlie's wife cuckolds him then leaves him with 4 sons who are not his own. They are the joy of his life though and he is a loving father to them, the boys are close to him and want him to be safe
A very inaccurate depiction. It refers to it as "advanced delusionary schizophrenic with involuntary narcissistic rage”, "schizo" or "split personalities". Schizophrenia and narcissism are two very different conditions that are unrelated to D.I.D. And delusions are not symptoms of D.I.D.
It blames him for having the condition because he "never dealt with his anger". Really plays into the aggressive alter vs the passive alter trope. And of course it (spoilers) ends with him being a "cured".
The one possitive is that Irene at least treats Hank and Charlie as different people.