Subject: Mrs. Paley (Barbara Gordon)
Diagnosis: Senile Dementia (Though she may be faking it)
Emphasis: Minor Character
Explicit/Implied Mental Disorder: Implied/Vague diagnosis by "psychotherapist"
Accuracy
The first question may not be how accurate Barbara Gordon's performance is, but whether or not Mrs. Paley's character is faking Dementia for a tactical advantage. I'm not quite sure if she's faking it because when the killer tesseract starts attacking, she should have ran away from it instead of chasing after it like a dog chasing a ball. Also when Simon ties Mrs. Paley up, threatens her with a knife and tells her to drop the act, she further hallucinates Simon as a surgeon. So it's unlikely that Mrs. Paley is faking it, at least in this reality as the "other reality" Simon tells the group not to listen her.
I'm going to skip critiquing Barbara Gordon's performance as Mrs. Paley, simply because her character is very poorly developed and Gordon's acting is atrocious. If Mrs. Paley isn't faking it (the movie would have been much better if that question was more open-ended), then it's safe to say that Mrs. Paley's dementia isn't accurate at all.
When asked by Simon if Mrs. Paley is faking it, Kate (the psychotherapist) says that she is most likely having hallucinations brought about by an emotional response to the dead body that they saw, like in PTSD. However, if Mrs. Paley is so out of it that she thinks the gigantic cube she's in is a gym, I doubt she'd be able to register...I'm just going to stop there. If Kate, who is painted as an intelligent psychotherapist, also thinks the elderly Mrs. Paley is suffering from PTSD then I really shouldn't give this movie too much thought.
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