Choreographer and director Joe (representing Bob Fosse himself) takes a pill from a prescription bottle labeled Dexedrine. (0:01, 0:22, 0:35, 0:45, 1:03)
Angelique asks Joe: "Also heavy into speed, aren't you?" (0:8)
Standup comic Davis Newman on TV reviews Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her stages of dying. (0:11, 1:29, 1:42)
Standup comic in nightclub tells the psychiatrist joke in which the doctor requires a patient with "suicidal tendencies" to "pay in advance." (0:21)
After she asks him what he just swallowed (probably more Dexedrine), Joe lies to his daughter Michelle: "It's a mint." (0:32)
Newman smokes a joint before repeating his routine about Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her stages of dying. (0:56)
Joe demonstrates denial of the seriousness of angina. (1:07)
Joe's hospital cardiologist Dr. Ballinger lectures in a medical case conference: "Everything he does seems to be a denial of his condition." (1:18)
denial | dextroamphetamine | joint | Elizabeth Kübler-Ross | psychiatrist | suicide
To learn more about Bob Fosse's life and career (including a brief reference to psychiatrist Richard Ariola, MD) read:
Monday, December 13, 2010
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Hello moviedoc,
ReplyDeletei love reading you analysis of movies. Have you seen "For My Father"? It is one of my very favorites and i would really like to know what you think of it....thanks!
I just put For My Father on my Netflix queue, Tracy. Thanks for the suggestion. Have you seen Walk On Water? Ushpizin? The Band's Visit? Waltz With Bashir?
ReplyDeletePlease tell me whether there is any content in For My Father (other than suicide) relate to psychiatry/substance abuse.
Moviedoc Thank you for the suggestions! i have heard of "The Bands Visit", but have not seen it.
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i am trying to think of "Psychiatric Situations" in "For My Father"...Young Man as Suicide Bomer who "accidently" lives and goes on to make connections with other "outcasts" he would have never met otherwise, a young lady who has left her Orthodox Jewish family and is being sought out, almost violently, by her brother and a cousin, her still positive relationship with her mother, Parents mourning the death of their son in the Israeli Army under very suspicious circumstances, the father of that son who may drink in excess and has a fasination with water...(you will see why) , nightmares, ...i know you said not suicide, however, an attempted suicide.
Ummmm, i apologize, i am not certian what you are looking for and i don't think i am very good at this.
Thank you for putting this film on your list and for writing back,
tracy
Thanks, Tracy. Sounds like maybe some content related to alcoholism, family dynamics as well as suicide. Not quite enuf for a Monday PM Tweetchat, but I'll try to watch it next solo. Should be way better than Devil in the Flesh II.
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