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The Aviator, a true story based on the life of Howard Hughes, shows the decent of a man on top of the world from an eccentric director and state-of-the-art plane designer to an obsessive-compulsive recluse. The film constantly poses the question "which of Hughes' behavior points merely to perfectionism and which shows signs of OCD?" I chose the scene where Howard, portrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio, nude, burns every item of clothing that he owned after a breakup with Katherine Hepburn. This was a p… Continue