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The Descent and the Martha Mitchell Result \*\* Contains Spoilers \*\*. "The Descent opens with a bloody bang and never ever lets up," announces the blurb on the DVD cover. That bloody bang, probably, would be when lead character Sarah loses both her spouse and young little girl in a gruesome vehicle accident just moments into the movie. The motion picture then leaps cuts to one year later; Sarah and a gaggle of female friends are in forested Appalachia for a team spelunking expedition. These friends are well aware of the horrific injury Sarah's suffered, and hope the experience will be healing. horror She's still rattled, though-- she wakes from problems of the crash gasping, leaps at the tiniest sound, is never ever at simplicity and always a bit suspicious. As the group finds themselves in a network of caverns and caves two miles below the Earth's surface, Sarah can't assist but see things the others do not, like the sound of stifled voices or quick looks of shadows dashing past. Her girlfriends are more worried with enjoying themselves, and concern her misgivings as simply techniques of the mind. She's been with a lot, they believe to themselves; we'll forgive her if she's gone a little insane. Rattled. Traumatized. But hardly crazed-- those weren't odd plays of light or simple ambient noises keeping Sarah on edge. The girls were being hunted. In psychiatric circles, it is not unknown for a patient to tell unlikely tales that would seem to warrant a diagnosis of being delusional. However occasionally-- on even more parties than numerous mental health specialists would such as to admit-- those evident delusions astoundingly show to be real, and the diagnosis dead wrong. Some hypochondriacs really do have chronic diseases, and there are those among the paranoid who are really being viewed. This sort of sensation is known as the Martha Mitchell Impact. Pupils of Americana need to be familiar with Martha Beal Mitchell. As the spouse of the Attorney General of the United States during the Nixon years, Martha first made a name for herself as an outspoken (and oftentimes drunk) critic of the liberal left. Richard M. Nixon himself appeared to value that this supposed "Mouth of the South" had the ability to galvanize his conservative base. Relations in between the 2 took an icy turn, however, when Nixon slighted Martha personally-- and she retaliated by telephoning the press with tales of scandal within the administration. It wasn't hard for her political foes to paint poor Martha as delusional; she did have issues with drink, after all, and wasn't her polemic on the talk show circuit a bit like that of a loosened cannon? Reports differ about the lengths the administration went to in order to challenge her-- the tale cited frequently is that she was heavily sedated by force and shipped off to the sanitarium. There had not been time enough to sign her in, however, before the Watergate scandal broke. Martha Mitchell was definitely vociferous, and rather most likely an alcoholic. But as the unraveling of the Nixon presidency would prove, she was not, in truth, delusional. If in daily life you experience a guy sporting a tinfoil hat to obstruct those attempting to regulate his mind, it's most likely a safe bet that the individual you're handling suffers from delusions. However as the adage goes, be careful not to leap to conclusions. Far from seething, Martha Mitchell's accusations of government corruption ended up being right on the mark. So, ought to you ever before are spelunking below the mountains of Appalachia, don't be too quick to dismiss your apparently paranoid cohort-- if The Descent is any sign, there actually might be beasts afoot.