The stories dramatized in movie screens are striking, once they arouse feelings that are experienced by the audience. From this perspective, the present article attempts to identify, demonstrate and comment on the depressive behavior of the characters in the movie The Hours, by Stephen Daldry. The characters illustrate the people's coexistence with depressive states in different times and in different morbidity levels. The movie tries to show the different behavioral and symptomatic manifestations through the personal presentation of each character, as well as through the scenery of the stories. Traces of psychotic depression can be seen in Virginia Woolf's character and a depressive state that tends to dysthymia in Laura Brown's character. Clarissa suggests a "dissembling depression" which is strongly related to Richard, whose depression culminates in suicide. The combination of different times and the interconnection between the characters reflect the universal and atemporal character of the psychological phenomena, although they are privately experienced by each character.
Depression; suicide; types of depression