But Cornelia discovers that each of these personalities have different facets and some not as nice as others as she encounters the suicidal Marsha. As Cornelia patiently helps Sybil, being there for her at times like a mother she comes to understand that these personalities come from a childhood of physical and mental abuse from her own mother. Cornelia Wilbur who quickly becomes aware that Sybil is a woman of multiple personalities, thirteen in total which Sybil's subconscious has created to help her deal with the world. After one episode where she hurts herself smashing a window she ends up in the office of psychiatrist Dr. Now I don't know how true the movie is to Mason's story but what we watch is the story of the shy Sybil who has episodes where she does stuff she has no idea of. That experience of discovering this made for TV movie from the 1970s made me realise that there was a wealth of ignored and forgotten movies out there, some of which are up there with the best big screen movies.Īs to "Sybil" itself well originally made as a two part drama and then edited into one movie, one long movie which comes in at over 3 hours it is based on the true story of Shirley Ardell Mason. "Sybil" was a movie I hadn't planned to watch and I had never even heard of it at the time which was quite a few years ago but with in minutes of it starting I was blown away by the powerful acting and intrigued by the story. I was asked once why I prefer to watch old movies and TV movies which most people have never heard of and I replied because of "Sybil".
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