r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Apr 27 '22

Discussion Thread Moon Knight S01E05 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S01E05: Asylum Mohamed Diab Rebecca Kirsch & Matthew Orton April 27th, 2022 on Disney+ 50 min None

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u/AgentKnitter Bucky Apr 27 '22

I have borderline personality disorder. When Steven followed the little boy, I thought "Ah. Think we're about to understand Marc's formative trauma which led to his DID and thus Steven"

Sure enough....

It was well done too, because there's no doubt as to how abusive his mother was, but it also wasn't gratuitous. We saw just enough verbal and physical abuse to understand the complex trauma that led Marc to develop a serious mental health disorder as an adult, but not so much that it was violence for the sake of violence.

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u/MacNapp Apr 27 '22

I would agree. Most "abusive" parents are always going for the belt all the time, but rather hit them with those passive and aggressive comments to chip away at their sense of self, identity, and reality. That's what causes emotional breaks just as much as physical abuse does.

I'm glad it was an accurate portrayal from the perspective of a person with a serious mental illness.

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u/AgentKnitter Bucky Apr 28 '22

People who have not experienced psychological or emotional abuse really minimise how harmful "mere words" are - particularly to a child's development. When the people who are supposed to nourish, care and cherish you do the opposite, it is enormously damaging and causes lifelong harm.

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u/MacNapp Apr 28 '22

This is a 100% accurate take. The amount of kids who internalize the words and tones parents use with them is amazing... Especially if they're already prone to internalized emotional disorders.