History Film / Mindscape

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anna, as she is always in her bedroom, though the film never emphasizes it beyond a single scene.

** Advertisement, promotional materials and even Wiki/TheOtherWiki claim Washington's task in ''Mindscape'' is deciding whether Anna is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. Aside from the fact this is incorrect in the film itself (he is brought to make Anna drop her hunger strike, not to determine such thing; diagnosis is only a tangential part of his job), this disjunctive makes no sense from a psychological viewpoint: unlike the previous case, you can fit the criteria for sociopathy yet be a victim of trauma at the same time, and the two things can be either connected or completely unrelated, so simply diagnosing any of them (or even both) would be utterly inconclusive for Anna's case.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Anna. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end. She’s more amoral that evil, given that she chose the least harmful route for her plan and ensured that Washington wouldn't pay from the crime she framed him for.]]

** It is unclear [[spoiler:how much of any character's testimony and perspective is factual, given that the process Mindscape uses to enter someone's memories fundamentally alters those, creating a cast of {{Unreliable Narrator}}s. Washington didn't even know he was reliving his previous memories for most of the film. Everyone except him also has a motivation to lie and obfuscate the truth: Anna could be just a murderous sociopath or a genius heiress caught in the midst of a conspiracy to deprive her of her inheritance, Sebastian is apparently a liar and could have played some shady role in Anna’s development, and the girls poisoned by Anna in their private school had their own reasons to accuse her, so what exactly transpired there goes unanswered.]]
** [[spoiler:Anna proves to be the mastermind her parents accuse her of being, but her own accusations about how she is being framed as a madwoman in order to discredit her and deprive her of her old money are left uncontested by the end of the film. Given that the two lectures are not mutually incompatible and that her theory is actually very believable from the clues we are given, the case of both of them being true is entirely possible. ]]
** [[spoiler:Is Anna’s intelligence which enables her to fabricate memories, or does she have psychic training as well? It’s revealed that Sebastian, the head of the Mindscape psychic detective agency, was her therapist since childhood and clearly played some role in developing her mind, but for some reason he hides it from Washington and never really clarifies it. If he was just her therapist, then he's not a very good one, but if Anna was being groomed and trained in something more, possibly into a future Mindscape recruit herself or some other government experiment to utilize her precocious genius, then everything being kept highly secret and Anna locked up makes suddenly much more sense. ]]
** Related to the previous point, [[spoiler: the scene where a little girl addresses Sebastian as her uncle at a cocktail party might go unnoticed for the average viewer, but the fact that the little girl is dressed in an outdated lace dress identical to the one Anna wore as a child when Sebastian visited her implies there is definitely ''something'' about this. Is Sebastian simply attending a family party? Is he hanging out with wealthy people looking for potential clients for Mindscape? Or is he scouting another snob couple whom he might convince to subject their child to psychic training, as Anna might have been? ]]

** An in-universe report states Anna suffers from "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Assuming this is a single diagnosis and not a psychiatric history, it is fundamentally impossible by modern psychological criteria (DSM-V and ICD-10) because the current standards to qualify for depression exclude the ones for bipolar disorder and vice versa. To put it in very simple words, ''depression'' is a period of sustained low mood, while ''bipolar disorder'' is a period of low mood alternating with very elevated mood, which means you cannot be diagnosed both at the same time (oversimplified: if a depressed patient has episodes of elevated mood, it is bipolar disorder; if he has not, it is depression).
* BadassNormal: Apparently. [[spoiler:While Anna never displays tangible psychic powers, her mind is powerful enough to hijack the memory-viewing process and create effectively indistinguishable fake memories. Though one does wonder whether that is really the case, giving Sebastian’s unrevealed background as her therapist and the question whether the Anna that Washington saw near his apartment was a projection of his own psyche or perhaps Anna projecting herself there mentally.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was seemingly a ManipulativeBitch all along and has now gone on the run. We will never know what truly happened between her parents, Sebastian, Mindscape, and the private academy. However, she did send Washington photographic evidence that proved she was alive and behind it all in order to exonerate him and ensure his freedom, so Washington can finally move on with his life and possibly find peace with Judith.]]

* FilleFatale: Anna is suspected to be one. While she is not exaggeratedly trying to seduce Washington like most examples, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to arguably qualify [[spoiler:and her former teacher Ortega accuses her of being one. She eventually accomplishes her goal to escape her family and their virtual compound of a private estate by manipulating Washington emotionally, but their relationship never takes on a romantic or sexual dimension, as he rebuffs her explicit flirtations without hesitation. From Anna's perspective Washington is a colleague of her therapist Sebastian and complicit with him and her parents in keeping her confined and discredited. Also Ortega was accused and convicted of taking pornographic photographs of her in her school uniform as well as apparently doing the same to a large portion of the underage female student body. The question of whether Anna was ever actually sexually abused as a prepubescent child is left eerily ambiguous, though Washington certainly believes this to be the case. Regardless, whoever took those photos of Anna while she was at the private academy was producing child pornography by doing so and therefore legally abusing her.]]
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: Anna's memory self (and by the extension, herself) realizes Washington is in her mind when she takes a look at his own self. Although the act itself is not rare (and [[spoiler:Washington himself will do later]]), it leads him to suspect she might try to disguise her memories to fool him.
* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". While the last one is debatably [[spoiler:true, proven by her manipulative tendencies and probably caused by her potentially abusive childhood, something Anna's family and her therapist Sebastian are suspiciously quick to denounce the possibility of,]] we don't get a good look to her emotional life through the film to assess the other two.
* LampshadeHanging: Blink and you'll miss it, but in one of her flashbacks, Anna is shown reading ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''. [[spoiler:The book has a reputation as a mind control trigger in assassination conspiracy theories, and its plot goes about a teenager running away from his family.]]
* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:Was Anna a socipath or not? The film doesn't answer it directly. That said, there are some hints she is not, if only because, as she says herself, she is not a sociopath but smart enough to think like one. If she was truly a sociopath with nothing to lose, she could've just murdered her parents, or at least her stepfather whom she despised, and let Washington take the blame. Instead, she merely poisoned them and then ensured Washington's freedom by sending him a photo proving she was alive and well.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sebastian, Mindscape's director. He never stops being supportive of Washington even after being accused of ''very'' nasty things by him. [[spoiler:Though how culpable he was in any abuse Anna may have endured as a child is inconclusive and he did suspiciously lie about having visited Anna in her home as a child.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Anna. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end. She’s more amoral that evil, given that she chose the less harmful route for her plan and ensured that Washington wouldn't pay from the crime she framed him for.]]

** It is unclear [[spoiler:how much of any character's testimony and perspective is factual given the process Mindscape can use to enter and manipulate someone's memories, creating a cast of {{Unreliable Narrator}}s. Washington didn't even know he was reliving his previous memories for most of the film. Everyone except him also has a motivation to lie and obfuscate the truth: Anna could be just a murderous sociopath or a genius heiress caught in the midst of a conspiracy to deprive her of her inheritance, Sebastian is apparently a liar and could have played some shady role in Anna’s development, and the girls poisoned by Anna in their private school had their own reasons to accuse her, so what exactly transpired there goes unanswered.]]

** Related to the previous point, [[spoiler: the scene where a little girl addresses Sebastian as her uncle at a cocktail party might go unnoticed for the average viewer, but the fact that the little girl is dressed in an outdated lace dress identical to the one Anna wore as a child when Sebastian visited her implies there is definitely ''something'' about this. Is he simply attending a family party? Is he hanging out with wealthy people looking for potential clients? Or is he scouting another snob couple whom he might convince to subject their child to psychic training, as Anna might have been? ]]

* BadassNormal: Apparently. [[spoiler:While Anna never displays tangible psychic powers, her mind is powerful enough to hijack the memory-viewing process and create effectively indistinguishable fake memories. Though one does wonder whether that is really the case, giving Sebastian’s unrevealed background as her therapist, and whether the Anna that Washington saw near his apartment was a projection of his own psyche or perhaps Anna projecting herself there mentally.]]

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Subverted. Although Anna duped Washington in order to cover for her running away and living in hiding until she reaches a legal age, she also did it without spilling blood (in contrast to the previous accusations that she tried to murder Judith) and ensured that Washington was apparently only in prison long enough for her to get away and establish a new life. At the end, it resembles less an evil plan and more a smart ruse by a teenaged but significantly kind genius girl desperate to escape an abusive situation.]]

* FilleFatale: Anna is suspected to be one. While she is not exaggeratedly trying to seduce Washington like other examples, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to arguably qualify [[spoiler:and her former teacher Ortega accuses her of being one. She eventually accomplishes her goal to escape her family and their virtual compound of a private estate by manipulating Washington emotionally, but their relationship never takes on a romantic or sexual dimension, as he rebuffs her explicit flirtations without hesitation. From Anna's perspective Washington is a colleague of her therapist Sebastian and complicit with him and her parents in keeping her confined and discredited. Also Ortega was accused and convicted of taking pornographic photographs of her in her school uniform as well as apparently doing the same to a large portion of the underage female student body. The question of whether Anna was ever actually sexually abused as a prepubescent child is left eerily ambiguous, though Washington certainly believes this to be the case. Regardless, whoever took those photos of Anna while she was at the private academy was producing child pornography by doing so and therefore legally abusing her.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Subverted in Anna’s case, as he is unusually honest from the beginning about her ability to think like a sociopath.

* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". While the last one is debatably [[spoiler:true, proven by her manipulative tendencies and probably caused by her potentially abusive childhood,]] we don’t get a good look to her emotional life through the film to assess the other two.

** Related to the previous point, [[spoiler: the scene where a little girl addresses Sebastian as her uncle at a cocktail party might go unnoticed for the average viewer, but the fact that the little girl is dressed in an outdated lace dress identical to the one Anna wore as a child when Sebastian visited her implies there is definitely ‘’something’’ about this. Is he simply attending a family party? Is he hanging out with wealthy people looking for potential clients? Or is he scouting another snob couple whom he might convince to subject their child to psychic training, as Anna might have been? ]]

** An in-universe report states Anna suffers from "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Assuming this is a single diagnosis and not a psychiatric history, it is fundamentally impossible by modern psychological criteria (DSM-V and ICD-10) because the current standards to qualify for depression exclude the ones for bipolar disorder and vice versa. To put it in very simple words, ''depression'' is a period of sustained low mood, while ''bipolar disorder'' is a period of low mood alternating with very elevated mood, which means you cannot be diagnosed both at the same time (quick rule: if a depressed patient has episodes of elevated mood, it is bipolar disorder; if he has not, it is depression).

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: It is unclear how much of any character's testimony and perspective is factual given the process Mindscape can use to enter and manipulate someone's memories, creating a cast of {{Unreliable Narrator}}s. Washington didn't even know he was reliving his previous memories for most of the film. Everyone except Washington also has a motivation to lie and obfuscate the truth. Anna could be just a murderous sociopath or a genius heiress caught in the midst of a conspiracy to discredit and deprive her of her inheritance. Sebastian lied about visiting Anna at home, we even see a little girl dressed in an identically outdated lace dress that Anna wore as a child address him as "Uncle Sebastian" at a cocktail party, implying something insidious. Everything about Anna's private school and what exactly transpired there go unanswered. We only know that Sebastian and the Greene family want it all kept as secret as possible and that now Anna is free and apparently living in hiding until she reaches a legal age of majority and she ensured that Washington wouldn't pay from the crime she framed him for.]]

** An in-universe report states Anna suffers from "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Assuming this is a single diagnosis and not a psychiatric history, it is fundamentally impossible by modern psychological criteria: to put it in very simple words, ''depression'' is a period of sustained low mood, while ''bipolar disorder'' is a period of low mood alternating with very elevated mood, which means you cannot be diagnosed both of them at the same time because the standards to qualify for one exclude the other.
*** Though this isn't the case everywhere, in the US at least it's not uncommon for the two disorders to be treated as comorbid.

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:While Anna never displays tangible psychic powers, her mind is powerful enough to hijack the memory-viewing process and create effectively indistinguishable fake memories. Though one does wonder whether the Anna that Washington saw near his apartment was a projection of his own psyche, or perhaps Anna projecting herself there mentally. Sebastian, the head of the Mindscape psychic detective agency, was her therapist since childhood and it's ambiguous as to what role he played in developing her psyche. If he's just her therapist then he's not a very good one. If Anna was being groomed and trained in something illicit, something utilizing her precocious genius for the government that performed brutal psychic experiments, all the more reason to keep it highly secret and Anna locked up.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was seemingly a ManipulativeBitch all along and has now gone on the run. We we will never know what truly happened between her parents, Sebastian, Mindscape, and the private academy. However, Washington can finally move on with his life and possibly find peace with Judith.]]
** [[spoiler:Though Anna did send him photographic evidence that proved she was alive and behind it all in order to exonerate him and ensure his freedom. Washington was apparently only in prison long enough for her to get away and establish a new life. So maybe not so much a ManipulativeBitch or even a BitchInSheepsClothing since she was arguably honest about her nature from the beginning, but more accurately a still teen-aged albeit genius girl desperate to escape an abusive situation.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anna, as she is always in her room, though the film never emphasizes it beyond a single scene.

* FilleFatale: Anna is suspected to be one. While she is not exaggeratedly trying to seduce Washington like other examples, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to arguably qualify [[spoiler:and her former teacher Ortega accuses her of being one. She eventually accomplishes her goal to escape her family and their virtual compound of a private estate by manipulating Washington emotionally, but their relationship never takes on a romantic or sexual dimension. Washington rebuffs her explicit flirtations without hesitation. Remember that from Anna's perspective Washington is a colleague of her therapist Sebastian and complicit with him and her parents in keeping her confined and discredited. Also Ortega was accused and convicted of taking pornographic photographs of her in her school uniform as well as apparently doing the same to a large portion of the underage female student body. The question of whether Anna was ever actually sexually abused as a prepubescent child is left eerily ambiguous, though Washington certainly believes this to be the case. Regardless, whoever took those photos of Anna while she was at the private academy was producing child pornography by doing so and therefore legally abusing her.]]

* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Judging from her behavior throughout the film, Anna possesses such a high level of rational intelligence that proper diagnosis of her psyche in real life could be very complicated. [[spoiler:At the very least she appears to be suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress disorder stemming from potential childhood trauma and sexual abuse as Washington suspects, something Anna's family and her therapist Sebastian are suspiciously quick to denounce the possibility of.]]
* LampshadeHanging: Blink and you'll miss it, but in one of her flashbacks, Anna is shown reading ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''. [[spoiler:The book has a reputation as a mind control trigger in assassination conspiracy theories.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Arguably Anna herself, or at least she portrays herself as one to Washington. She implies that while she may not be a true sociopath, she's smart enough to be as manipulative as one. In the end her duping of Washington was all part of a scheme to ensure her freedom, if she was truly a sociopath with nothing to lose she could've just murdered her parents, or at least her stepfather whom she despised, and let Washington take the blame. Instead she merely poisoned them and then ensured Washington's freedom by sending him a photo proving she was alive and well. So perhaps more of a MagnificentBitch.]]

* TheSociopath: A big question in the movie is whether Anna is one or not. [[spoiler: We never really find out for sure.]]

* ThrillSeeker: [[spoiler: An early hint of Anna's possible sociopathy is how she gasps in shock after the admittedly traumatic experience of being mind-probed, only for her to immediately ask him to repeat it. Though it could also be a sign of her intellectual wonder at the process, perhaps even her own latent psychic potential.]]

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Or rather, most of the film was John's memories being examined by Lundgren.]]

** Advertisement, promotional materials and even Wiki/TheOtherWiki claim John's task in ''Mindscape'' is deciding whether Anna is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. Aside from the fact this is incorrect in the film itself (he is brought to make Anna drop her hunger strike, not to determine such thing; diagnosis is only a tangential part of his job), this disjunctive makes no sense from a psychological viewpoint: unlike the previous case, you can fit the criteria for sociopathy yet be a victim of trauma at the same time, and the two things can be either connected or completely unrelated, so simply diagnosing any of them (or even both) would be utterly inconclusive for Anna's case.

* FilleFatale: Anna is suspected to be one. While she is not exaggeratedly trying to seduce John like other examples, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to arguably qualify [[spoiler:and her former teacher Ortega accuses her of being one. She eventually accomplishes her goal to escape her family and their virtual compound of a private estate by manipulating Washington emotionally, but their relationship never takes on a romantic or sexual dimension. Washington rebuffs her explicit flirtations without hesitation. Remember that from Anna's perspective Washington is a colleague of her therapist Sebastian and complicit with him and her parents in keeping her confined and discredited. Also Ortega was accused and convicted of taking pornographic photographs of her in her school uniform as well as apparently doing the same to a large portion of the underage female student body. The question of whether Anna was ever actually sexually abused as a prepubescent child is left eerily ambiguous, though Washington certainly believes this to be the case. Regardless, whoever took those photos of Anna while she was at the private academy was producing child pornography by doing so and therefore legally abusing her.]]
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: Anna's memory self (and by the extension, herself) realizes John is in her mind when she takes a look at his own self. Although the act itself is not rare (and [[spoiler:John himself will do later]]), it leads him to suspect she might try to disguise her memories to fool him.

* ShoutOut: A scene shows Anna wiggling her bare legs and feet on her bed while talking flirtatiously to John. The title girl's bare feet as a sexualized visual motif is instrumental to the two live action adaptations of ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', which director Jorge Dorado named as part of his inspirations for this film.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Peter Lundgren, John's colleague, although in this case DarkIsNotEvil.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sebastian, Mindscape's director. He never stops being supportive of Washington even after being accused of ''very'' nasty things by him.

* TheSociopath: A big question in the movie is whether Anna is one or not. [[spoiler: Eventually, it's revealed that she is.]]

* ThrillSeeker: [[spoiler: An early hint of Anna's sociopathy is how she gasps in shock after the admittedly traumatic experience of being mindprobed, only for her to immediately ask him to ''repeat'' it.]]

* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Judging from her behavior throughout the film, Anna possesses such a high level of rational intelligence that proper diagnosis of her psyche in real life could be very complicated. [[spoiler:At the very least she appears to be suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress disorder stemming from potential childhood trauma and sexual abuse as Washington suspects, something Anna's family and her therapist Sebastian are suspiciously quick to denounce.]]

* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Judging from her behavior throughout the film, Anna possesses such a high level of rational intelligence that proper diagnosis of her psyche in real life could be very complicated. At the very least she appears to be suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress disorder stemming from potential childhood trauma and sexual abuse as Washington suspects, something Anna's family and her therapist Sebastian are suspiciously quick to denounce.

* FilleFatale: Anna is suspected to be one. While she is not exaggeratedly trying to seduce John like other examples, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to arguably qualify [[spoiler:and her former teacher Ortega accuses her of being one. She eventually accomplishes her goal to escape her family and their virtual compound of a private estate by manipulating Washington emotionally, but their relationship never takes on a romantic or sexual dimension. Washington rebuffs her explicit flirtations without hesitation. Remember that from Anna's perspective Washington is a colleague of her therapist Sebastian and complicit with him and her parents in keeping her confined and discredited. Also Ortega was accused and convicted of taking pornographic photographs of her in her school uniform as well as apparently doing the same to a large portion of the underage female student body. The question of whether Anna was ever actually sexually abused as a prepubescent child is left eerily ambiguous, though Washington certainly believes this to be the case. Regardless, whoever took those photos of Anna while she was at the private academy was producing child pornography.]]

* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Judging for her behavior through the film, the third one is probable and the first is debatable, but she doesn't show clinical signs of the second, which would be nonetheless impossible to diagnose next to depression (see Artistic License Medicine above).
* LampshadeHanging: Blink and you'll miss it, but in one of her flashbacks, Anna is shown reading ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Anna herself.]]

* FilleFatale: Anna is suspected to be one. While she is not exaggeratedly trying to seduce John like other examples, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to qualify. [[spoiler:Though she eventually accomplishes her goal to worm her way out her house through John.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was really a ManipulativeBitch all along and has now gone on the run. However, Washington can finally move on with his life and possibly find peace with Judith.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoilers: It is unclear how much of any character's testimony and perspective is factual given the process Mindscape can use to enter and manipulate someone's memories, creating a cast of {{Unreliable Narrator}}s. Washington didn't even know he was reliving his previous memories for most of the film. Everyone except Washington also has a motivation to lie and obfuscate the truth. Anna could be just a murderous sociopath or a genius heiress caught in the midst of a conspiracy to discredit and deprive her of her inheritance. Sebastian lied about visiting Anna at home, we even see a little girl dressed in an identically outdated lace dress that Anna wore as a child address him as "Uncle Sebastian" at a cocktail party, implying something insidious. Everything about Anna's private school and what exactly transpired there go unanswered. We only know that Sebastian and the Greene family want it all kept as secret as possible and that now Anna is free and apparently living in hiding until she reaches a legal age of majority and she ensured that Washington wouldn't pay from the crime she framed him for.]]

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:While Anna has no psychic powers, her mind is powerful enough to hijack the memory-viewing process and create effectively indistinguishable fake memories.]]

** Advertisement, promotional materials and even TheOtherWiki claim John's task in ''Mindscape'' is deciding whether Anna is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. Aside from the fact this is incorrect in the film itself (he is brought to make Anna drop her hunger strike, not to determine such thing; diagnosis is only a tangential part of his job), this disjunctive makes no sense from a psychological viewpoint: unlike the previous case, you can fit the criteria for sociopathy yet be a victim of trauma at the same time, and the two things can be either connected or completely unrelated, so simply diagnosing any of them (or even both) would be utterly inconclusive for Anna's case.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: An in-universe report states Anna suffers from "depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism". Assuming this is a single diagnosis and not a psychiatric history, it is fundamentally impossible by modern psychological criteria: you cannot be diagnosed depression and bipolar disorder at the same time because the standards to qualify for one exclude the other.[[note]]To put it in very simple words, ''depression'' is a period of sustained low mood, while ''bipolar disorder'' is a period of low mood alternating with very elevated mood.[[/note]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was really a sociopath all along and has now gone on the run. However, Washington can finally move on with his life and possibly find peace with Judith.]]

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:While Anna has no psychic powers, her mind is apparently powerful enough to hijack the memory-viewing process and create effectively indistinguishable fake memories.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was really a sociopath and has gone on the run. However, Washington finally can move on with his life and find peace with Judith.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Anna and Ortega had some impressive moments of snarking.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anna, as she is always in her room.

* FilleFatale: Anna. While she is not overtly trying to seduce John, she is flirtatious and suggestive enough to qualify.
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: Anna's memory self (and by the extension, herself) evidently realizes John is in her mind. Although the act itself is not rare (and [[spoiler:John himself will do later]]), it leads him to suspect she might try to disguise her memories to fool him.
* InformedFlaw: Anna's official diagnosis is "depression, bipolar disorder and deep narcissism". While the first is possible and the third is debatable, she never shows signs of the second through the film.

* ShoutOut: A scene emphasizes Anna wiggling her legs and feet in a very 1997 ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''-esque fashion. The director named said film as one of his inspirations.

* ThrillSeeker: [[spoiler: An early hint of Anna's sociopathy is how she gasps in shock after the admittedly traumatic experience of being mindprobed, only for her to immediately ask him to repeat it.]]

* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Anna.]]

* TheSociopath: A big question in the movie is whether Anna is one or not. [[spoiler: She is.]]

* TeenGenius: Anna is incredibly perceptive and inquisitive, knows a lot about psychology and is a great artist. [[spoiler:And actress.]]
* ThrillSeeker: An early hint of Anna's [[spoiler:sociopathy]] is how she gasps in shock after the admittedly traumatic experience of being mindprobed, only for her to immediately ask him to repeat it.

John Washington (Strong) is a recently widowed man wh works for Mindscape, a detective agency that employs [[PsychicPowers psychics]] with the ability of enter people's memories to solve criminal cases. Being one of its best agents, and in need for money due to his personal troubles, Washington asks for a case, and is given that of Anna Greene (Farmiga), a brilliant but troubled 16-year old girl from a disgustingly rich family who is a hunger strike and has possibly attacked family members. By entering Anna's memories, Washington has the task of determine if she is a victim of dark schemes or a manipulative sociopath herself. Things then become muddled.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was really a sociopath and has go runaway. However, Washington finally can move on with his life and find peace with Judith.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:''Subtlely'' psycho, in Anna's case.]]

* LampshadeHanging: Blink or miss, but in one of her flashbacks, Anna is shown reading ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.

John Washington (Strong) is a recently widowed man wh works for Mindscape, a detective agency that employs [[PsychicPowers psychics]] with the ability of enter people's memories to solve criminal cases. Being one of its best agents, and in need for money due to his personal troubles, Washington asks for a case, and is given that of Anna Greene (Farmiga), a brilliant but troubled 16-year old girl from a disgustingly rich family who is a hunger strike and has possibly attacked family members. By entering Anna's memories, Washington has the task of determine if she is a victim of dark machinations or a manipulative sociopath herself. Things then become muddled.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Anna was really a sociopath and has went runaway. However, Washington finally can move on with his life and find peace with Judith.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anna, as she is always in her room. A scene emphasizes her wiggling her legs and feet in a very 1997 ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''-esque fashion.

* ReclusiveArtist: Anna is a {{hikikomori}} at the beginning of the film, yet a great artist.

''Mindscape'' (known as ''Anna'' in its United States release) is a 2013 PsychologicalThriller film directed by Jorge Dorado in his filmmaking debut and starring Creator/MarkStrong and Creator/TaissaFarmiga.

''Mindscape'' (known as ''Anna'' in its United States release) is a PsychologicalThriller film directed by Jorge Dorado in his filmmaking debut and starring Creator/MarkStrong and Creator/TaissaFarmiga.

John Washington (Strong) is a recently widowed man wh works for Mindscape, a detective agency that employs [[PsychicPowers psychics]] with the ability of enter people's memories to solve criminal cases. Being one of its best agents, and in need for money due to his personal troubles, Washington asks for a case, and is given that of Anna Greene (Farmiga), a brilliant but troubled 16-year old girl from a disgustingly rich family. By entering Anna's memories, Washington has the task of determine if she is a victim of dark machinations or a manipulative sociopath. Things then become muddled.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Peter Lundgren, John's colleague, although in this case DarkIsNotEvil.