Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, and Jessica Chastain in Lawless (2012)

Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

These movies are about self-destructive behaviour which is a widely used phrase that conceptualizes certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self. It also has the property that it characterizes certain kinds of self-inflicted acts as destructive. The term comes from objective psychology, wherein all apparent self-inflicted harm or abuse toward oneself is treated as a collection of actions, and therefore as a pattern of behaviour. Acts of "self-destruction" may be merely metaphorical "social suicide" or suicide. Generally speaking, self-destructive actions may be deliberate, born of impulse, or developed as a habit. The term however tends to be applied toward self-destruction that are potentially habit-forming or addictive, and are thus potentially fatal.

Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

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