The End (1978)

Does Marlon Borunki display characteristics that might arise from mistaking schizophrenia for split personality (dissociative identity disorder) or bipolar disorder? How would you diagnose Marlon?

Realtor Wendell Sonny Lawson tells Dr. Samuel Krugman, "It’s the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story, isn't it?" 
Krugman: ”... I’m very curious...” 
”... a patient of mine... wonderful drugs... miraculous drugs... for pain...” (0:02)

Funeral procession 
The hearse driver asks Sony, ”What, are you crazy?...” (0:11)

Priest Father Dave Benson tells Sonny, "Don’t worry... “
”... craving alcohol, dreaming of..." 
Sonny: ”... I was out copulating around with other women...” 
Benson: ”You, um, committed adultery during your marriage?” (0:17)

Sonny asks an orderly, "Uh, where do they keep the dying patients?" (0:20)

Sonny tells his lawyer friend Marty Lieberman: "... Marty, I’m gonna kill myself." 
”... I’m gonna kill myself...” 
Marty Lieberman: ”... you’re the sweetest guy I know...” 
Sonny: ”... I think, I think sleeping pills.” 
Marty: ”I have Sleep-eze. Can’t OD on Sleep-eze.” 
”Intelligent, sensitive...” (0:24)

Mary Ellen, Sonny’s lover: "... my sweet Sonny..." (0:27)

Sonny tells Mary Ellen, ”... I just had a very traumatic experience...”
Mary Ellen: ”... just don’t want you to do anything crazy.” 
”... to hurt yourself.” 
Sonny: ”Well, don’t be silly. I’m not gonna hurt myself...” 
”... Julie doesn’t like to see me in ladies’ clothes.” 
”... if I was gonna kill myself, don’t you think...?” (0:31)

His ex-wife Jessica Lawson asks Sonny, "Sleeping pills... Oh, Sonny, what do you need sleeping pills for?... give up the caffeine..." 
”... If you’re really having trouble sleeping... your folks? They’re hypochondriacs.” 
Sonny: "My folks are not hypochondriacs. You always call them hypochondriacs. They might have a couple of downers, though.” 
Jessica: ”Will it depress me?” 
Referring to their daughter Julie: ”She will say anything to look brave...” (0:32)

Sonny’s head hits a wall. (0:37)

Sonny tells his mother Maureen, "... a couple of sleeping pills..." 
Maureen: ”Sleeping pills? We don’t have any sleeping pills...” 
Sonny’s father Ben: ”... we got enough sleeping pills in there to put the Mormon Tabernacle choir in a coma...” (0:38)

Medicine cabinet full of prescription bottles (0:39)

Sonny, holding a glass full of pills, "... Is the coward’s way out?..." 
Sonny swallows a handful of pills. 
Sonny reads from a newspaper: ”Lonely? Depressed? Contemplating suicide?...” 
Sonny speaks into the telephone: “... I’m taking, uh, booze and downers...” 
Sonny takes another handful of pills, then takes a swig of liquor.
”... Who do I know that’s mature enough to handle a suicide note?...” (0:47)

Sign: "PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL" (0:53)

Sonny regains consciousness.
Patient Marlon Borunki tells Sonny, "... A large percentage of attempted suicides..."
Sonny: ”The nut house?” 
Marlon: ”... We prefer booby hatch.” 
”... I’m a patient, Marlon Joseph Barunki, paranoid schizophrenic, deep feelings of inferiority, alternating with delusions of grandeur...” 
”... I’m crazy, but I’m not that crazy...” 
”... You tried to kill yourself...”
Marlon smacks himself in the face, then bites himself.
”I’m writing a book on insanity... calling it Fruitcakes I Have Known... two whole chapters... on suicide... female suicides have bleached hair...?... Are you depressed?” 
”... It’s against the law... to kill yourself.” 
”... Suicide’s a serous thing...” 
”... suicide is legislated against...” 
”... Sane people make a lot of crazy rules...”
Marlon appears to converse with an alter.
”... mother complex, father complex, feelings of inferiority, suppressed rage...” 
Referring to his father: “... He thought that Moby Dick was a venereal disease... what a stupid idiot he was... You say it like you’re proud. Well, he didn’t have the courage to do it...” 
Sonny: ”... no way you can kill yourself in there.” 
Marlon: ”... I wish you could hurt yourself...” 
Sonny smacks Marlon’s face.
Marlon: ”... you pass out...” 
Sonny: ”... You’re not so crazy.” 
Nurse James brings a straight jacket and puts it on Marlon. (0:53)

Psychiatrist Dr. King tells Jessica, "These rooms were designed to house attempted suicides... no way he could possibly hurt himself in here."
They find Sonny attempting to crush his skull with the motorized bed. (1:04)

Jessica tells Sonny, "I know that you’re suffering from depression... when your depression goes away..." 
Sonny: ”Of course I’m depressed...” (1:04)

Sonny tells Jessica, "... I’m going wacko." 
Jessica: ”... I don’t want to see you kill yourself... If I let you take your life...” 
Sonny: ”You’re a selfish bitch... You’re not a selfish bitch...” 
Jessica: ”... Supppose I wanted to kill myself...” (1:06)

Dr. Maneet tells Sonny, "... afraid to share your grief." 
Sonny: ”I’m not taking your therapy group.” 
Maneet: ”Some people in my therapy group...” 
Sonny: ”I’m commiting suicide...” 
”... I want to commit suicide... in love with the idea of killing myself. When I think about killing myself...” 
Maneet: ”... for taking your own life.” 
Sonny: ”That’s psychological bullshit...” 
Maneet: ”... your suicide letter to your daughter...?...” 
Sonny rages. 
Sonny: ”... I guess that’s called a Freudian slip...” 
Maneet: ”... come to at least one death therapy session?...” (1:08)

Sonny asks Marlon, ”Hi. How did you escape?”
Marlon: “... I escaped.” 
”... a lot of crazy people around here.” 
Sonny: ”... doing myself in...” 
Marlon: ”... I always thought jumping out of a window would be completely painless.” (1:12)

Sonny tells Marlon, referring to high places, "I’m not crazy about ‘em..." 
Marlon: ”You’re very brave.” 
Sonny: ”I am brave.” 
Marlon: ”... Don’t worry.”
”I don’t think so.”
Sonny smacks Marlon. 
Sonny: ”I don’t have enough courage...” (1:14)

Marlon, helping him hang himself, tells Sonny, "Let go of me, you fool." 
Marlon: ”... That man’s nuts...” (1:19)

Sonny drives a truck through the gates.
Written on truck: ”PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL” (1:21)

Marlon tells a driving instructor, referring to Sonny, ”... just escaped from that insane asylum..." (1:22)

Sonny, holding the muzzle of a revolver to his head, tells Mary Ellen, "... I’ll splatter my brains all over these walls..." 
Mary Ellen: ”Sonny, you drive me crazy. You put a gun to your head. You drive me crazy.”
”You drive me crazy.”
Sonny: “Don’t be silly, Mary Ellen.” 
”I Don’t think...”
”... if you think about it... I think...” 
”... Suicide?” 
Mary Ellen: ”... I think... I guess I’ve just been selfish...” 
Sonny: ”... I can kill myself?...” 
Mary Ellen: ”... you drive me crazy...” 
Sonny: ”I’m glad I didn’t kill myself here...” (1:24)

Sonny swims into the ocean then dives deep under the water. (1:31)

Sonny prays: "... I promise not to try and kill myself... I’ll be honest... I never wanted to kill myself.." (1:33)

Sonny tells Marlon, "You silly son of a bitch." 
Marlon: ”... You’re so mean...” 
Sonny: ”I don’t think you do...”
Marlon: “I don’t think...” 
Sonny: ”I don’t care what you think.” (1:36)