Friday

Big Worm asks Smokey, "You still ain't sold that weed?" (0:12)

Smokey tells Craig, "I know that you don't smoke weed... but I'm gonna get you high today..." (0:15)

Smokey tells Craig, "I want to smoke this joint..." (0:17)

Smokey holds paper in his left hand, a joint in his right. Craig tells Smokey, "All you do is smoke weed." Smokey puffs on a joint. Posters on the wall: "Blunt," "Mary Jane," "Nickel" (0:19)

Craig asks Smokey, "How you gonna sell bud when you smoke it?" (0:19)

Smokey shows Craig a bag of marijuana: "Go in the house, get me something to roll this up with." (0:24)

Smokey rolls a joint: "Weed is from the earth." He smokes a joint, then two joints, then three. (0:25)

Smokey rolls a joint. (0:27)

Smokey and frinnds share a joint in a car. "It's angel dust..." (0:28)

Smokey in underwear intoxicated from phencyclidine(?) (0:29)

Smokey smokes a joint: "I been gettin' high all week." (0:35)

Craig lights a joint, smokes, shares with Smokey. (0:36)

Felicia tells Smokey. "Let me borrow a joint"; Craig appears intoxicated with altered perceptions. (0:38)

Craig hallucinates a man in a cabinet. (0:40)

Debbie asks Craig, "Are you high?" (0:42)

Craig asks, "Am I trippin?" He hears ceramic dogs whining like real ones. (0:44)

Smokey tells Craig, "I'm high." (0:45)

Smokey tells Craig, "I smoked up his weed." (0:56)

Smokey tells Big Worm: "I'm goin' to rehab." He lights a joint. (1:28)

cannabis | cannabis intoxication | hallucination | joint | phencyclidine | phencyclidine intoxication

Once Were Warriors

Spoiler alert!

Notice the rope dangling from a tree limb as Gracie reads a story to her brother and sister. (0:03)

A group of teens shares a large joint. (0:04)

Grace's mother Beth rolls a joint. (0:13)

Grace's father Jake beats up Beth. (0:26)

Gang members in a car with Grace's brother Nig share a joint. (0:32)

Grace and her friend Toot share a joint. (0:44)

Grace's uncle rapes her in her bedroom. (1:04)

Grace asks Toot, "You've got something to sniff? They share a joint. (1:11)

Beth finds that Grace has hanged herself from the tree in the backyard. Several scenes of grieving relatives and friends lead to a Maori funeral service. (1:16)

Bereavement | cannabis | joint | Sexual Abuse of Child | suicide

Knock On Wood

Manager Marty tells ventriloquist Jerry he has scheduled an appointment with him for a doctor in Zurich he says is "Sort of a psychiatrist." Jerry asks, "A headshrinker?!" (0:07)

Marty gives Jerry a sleeping pill: "Here Jerry, you'd better take this pill and get a good night's sleep."
Jerry objects to the side effect: "They always make me so groggy."
Jerry worries about whether the doctor will think he's crazy just because he is peculiar. "I think I'm a little bit peculiar, but that's not crazy."
"You wouldn't be put away simply because people said that you were peculiar." (0:24)

Jerry awakens to find he shares the hotel room of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ilse. He tries to explain: "You see, I took a sleeping pill last night." (0:28)

During his consultation psychoanalyst Dr. Krueger tells Jerry, "A psychoanalyst who practices in London... is here..." (0:34)

Dr. Krueger asks Ilse to "prepare the injection."
She returns with a needle and syringe and after more banter injects Jerry's arm: "You will have a deep sleep and talk freely." Jerry nods off then recalls his childhood. (0:35)

Ilse observes to Jerry as they sit together in an airplane: "These dependency feelings could be one of your basic problems."
When Jerry invites her to dinner she confronts him about professional boundaries and transference: "Our relationship must be completely and strictly impersonal... In almost every therapy the patient becomes emotionally involved with his analyst... You may even get the notion that you are in love with me." (0:44)

In a session with Jerry Ilse explains how the treatment will work: "I want you to say anything that comes into your mind." (0:47)

Later Ilse tells Jerry a little about herself: "I became a doctor and then an analyst." When Jerry persists in asking her to talk about herself she admits their attempt to work together was "a dreadful mistake" and promises, "I'll see that you get a competent male analyst." (0:48)

Jerry reads "Sigmund Freud: A General Introrduction to Psychoanalysis" in his hotel room. Now taking on the role of psychoanalyst for Ilse he shares his formulation of her case: "All you've got is a little guilt complex... You're a victim of obsessive reproaches... hidden in the unconscious mind... You're regressing, and regression is a defense mechanism used against guilt feelings rationalized again and again... gratification of the Oedipus..." He interprets her survivor guilt, suggesting she has been "punishing yourself because you didn't die too." (0:50)

boundaries | complex | defense mechanism | Sigmund Freud | hypnotic | narcosynthesis | Oedipus complex | psychiatrist | psychoanalysis | psychoanalyst | regression | survivor guilt | transference

Gnomeo and Juliet

Spoiler alert!

It looks like a truck has smashed garden gnome Gnomeo in the street. His family and friends grieve. (0:54)

A statue of William Shakespeare tells Gnomeo his own original version of the story, including the suicides of the lovers. (1:04)

All the other gnomes believe an errant lawnmower has killed Gnomeo and Juliet. (1:11)

Bereavement | suicide

I See a Dark Stranger

British officer David speculates to Irish spy Bridie about "a boyfriend who committed suicide out of understandable desperation." (1:03)

suicide

Man in the Attic

Spoiler alert!

Inspector Warwick tells performer Lily, referring to theories about Jack the Ripper, "The favorite one is that he's a maniac who kills at random."
Lily's uncle William: "Well he may not kill at random, but he's not sane. You're a medical man Mr. Slade. Would you say he's sane?" (0:31)

Pathologist Slade tells Lily about his mother, "and when she finally left him for a young rich Frenchman my father killed himself, not with a gun, with absinthe, with a thousand green glasses of absinthe." (0:43)

Lily tells Warwick about Slade's mother. "She died an alcoholic in the slums of Whitechapel." (1:07)

Slade appears to drown himself in the river. (1:20)

What support can you find for an insanity defense? Is Slade a psychopath?

absinthe | suicide

Based on the novel by Marie Belloc-Lowndes:

Happy Tears

Jayne's husband Jackson appears to shrink at a party (0:21)

Dr. Sims tells Jayne her father Joe suffers from a "rare form of dementia." (0:23)

Jayne whispers to her sister Laura in front of Joe about "dementia, no cure..." (0:24)

Jayne and Laura share a joint. (0:27)

Jayne recalls her mother's death. (0:41)

Jayne dreams about her husband Jackson bouncing around a padded cell while restrained in a camisole. (0:43)

Jayne tells Joe's "nurse" Shelly, "I'm afraid my husband's losing his mind." Shelly replies, "You better commit him." (0:48)

Jayne manipulates the emergency room nurse for something (probably a narcotic analgesic) "a little better than sufficient" for shoulder pain after a motor vehicle accident. (1:02)

Jayne shares a joint with Ray, the son of Joe's friend Mitch. (1:10)

Ray shows Jayne a container of yellow capsules. Each of them swallows one. (1:14)

Jayne says, "I can't believe I OD'd." (1:17)

Jayne tells Laura Jackson does not want children because of his fear "that he'll pass on his neuroses." (1:19)

Jayne and Laura visit the grave of their mother Mallory. (1:23)

Jayne visits Jackson at a psychiatric hospital. (1:27)

Bereavement | camisole | dementia | joint | micropsia | psychiatric hospital

Paprika

Cross Waking Life with Spirited Away, and add the ability to walk back an forth through the screen in the movie theater as in The Purple Rose of Cairo.

Sprite Paprika and detective Konakawa watch his dream displayed on a laptop computer. (0:04)

Psychiatrist Dr. Chiba tells "Chief" psychiatrist Dr. Shima, "REM sleep that occurs later during the sleep cycle is longer and easier to analyze." (0:04)

Paprika tells Konakawa, "Your anxiety neurosis... the treatment's just getting started." (0:05)

The three psychiatrists enter a building where the sign reads "Foundation for Psychiatric Research." Chiba tells Shima and psychiatrist Dr. Tokita, "It means that the person who stole the DC Mini can connect to a psychotherapy machine at any time, from any place and use it to intrude into the minds connected to that machine." (0:09)

Finding Chairman psychiatrist Dr. Inui in Shima's office they discuss the DC Mini. Shima tells Inui, "The DC Mini represents the hope that shines on the new horizons of psychiatric treatment."
Chiba: "We are simply pursuing a deeper connection with our patients." (0:10)

Shima crashes through a window, falling to the ground below. (0:13)

In Shima's hospital room Chiba tells Shima, "That was a dream of a severely delusional patient."
Shima: "You haven't changed since the time you treated my depression two years ago." (0:22)

In a restaurant booth Paprika tell Konakawa, comparing the Internet to dreams, "They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents." (0:25)

At an abandoned theme park, after Himura falls, narrowly missing Chiba, surgeons discuss the case in the operating room: "Kei Himura... tried to commit suicide." (0:30)

Seeing that he has shot and killed his double, Konakawa asks, "I killed myself?" (0:41)

Paprika asks Konakawa, "Have you solved the mystery of why you killed yourself?"
Konakawa: "I've never thought of suicide." (0:44)

Tokita tells Paprika: "The ecstasy that blooms in synapse is Paprika-brand milk fat!" (0:45)

In the lab Chiba and Shima watch a dream on the computer screen. Shima tells Chiba , "They're not dreaming. But they're in REM sleep." (0:46)

In a car Chiba, referring to Himura, tells Shima: "He was invaded by a collective dream... Every dream it came in contact with was eaten up into one huge delusion." (Jungians may appreciate this suggestion of collective unconscious)
Shima: "And that delusion belongs to..." (0:52)

Chiba tells Shima, "... but that mastermind is lost in his own delusion." (1:10)

Infant Paprika swallows Chairman psychiatrist Dr. Inui. (1:21)

Konakawa talks to a vision of the deceased childhood friend who collaborated with him to make movies. (1:24)

Bereavement | collective unconscious | incorporation | psychiatrist | REM sleep | sleep-wake cycle | suicide

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

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Wizard Hermione reads the story of The Three Brothers to wizards Harry, Ron and friend. In the story the second brother hangs himself. (1:53)

suicide

Sansho the Bailiff

Spoiler alert!

Anju drowns herself to avoid capture and torture after she sends her brother Zushiô on alone to find their parents. (1:11)

Zushiô visits his father's grave. (1:30)

Zushiô learns of Anju's death and visits the site. (1:45)

Zushiô is told that his mother is dead. (1:53)

Zushiô tells his mother Tamaki that his father and Anju are dead. (2:01)

Bereavement | suicide

Cocaine Angel

Cocaine addict Scott appears to retrieve some drug residue from the remnant of a plastic bag and rubs it on his gums with his finger. With a syringe he draws liquid from a mug. He prepares a metal spoon, rolls up his sleeve, and using his necktie as a tourniquet, injects a vein in his arm. (0:02)

Scott looks at himself in the mirror. "There's nothing wrong." (0:05) Might we call this denial?

Scott asks user Sandra and her male friend Joey, "You guys got any f***ing coke?" Sandra appears to be dividing cocaine on a shiny metal tray. (0:13)

Scott purchases a drug from dealer Sonny. (0:16)

Scott unwraps a plastic bag containing white powder. (0:17)

Scott's friend Mary smokes a crack pipe. (0:21, 0:40)

In the bathroom Scott removes a necktie tourniquet from his arm. (0:30)

Scott purchases syringes at a drugstore. (0:35)

Hurricane Mike's neighbor tells Scott and Mary why Mike is in the hospital: "He took too many of them damn pills last night and almost killed himself." (0:38)

Hurricane Mike's wife Helen injects a vein in Scott's arm. (0:41)

Scott divides cocaine on a mirror with a razor and rubs some on his gums with a finger. Helen tells Scott, "I don't give a f**k about that crack head." (0:42)

Hurricane Mike's dumps a bottle of unidentified pills in his mouth and washes them down with a drink. (0:48)

Mary smokes crack pipe then finds a prescription bottle in a purse. (0:53)

Scott examines the empty pill bottle. He cannot arouse Mary. (0:56)

cocaine | Cocaine Intoxication | overdose

Snow Cake

Vivienne is killed in a motor vehicle accident. (0:14)

Vivienne's mother Linda already knows about Vivienne's death when Alex comes to her door. She tells him, "I know that Vivienne is dead." Things must be just so in her house. (0:18)

Linda tells Alex, "I don't want the wet contaminating my carpet."
"I do my checking." She arranges everything. (0:22)

Alex tells Linda, "I feel guilty." (0:24)

"Linda tells Alex, "I can't touch garbage." (0:27)

Alex asks Maggie, "What exactly is it?"
Maggie: "Autism." (0:32)

Linda tells Alex, "You neurotypical people are..." (0:36)

Linda compulsively arranges brochures in a rack. (0:38)

Diane tells Alex and Linda, "I know all about autism." (0:39)

Alex tells Maggie, referring to Vivienne, "I keep seeing her face." (0:44)

Alex tells Linda, "I had a son who died." (0:48)

Linda compulsively arranges products on shelves in a store. (0:58)

Alex tells Maggie, "I spent the last four years grieving over someone I never knew and now I'm doing it all over again with Vivienne." (1:08)

Funeral service for Vivienne (1:23)

One guest to another: "That's the thing about autism. They're neat freaks." (1:30)

Linda tells Alex, "I'm autistic." (1:40)

Autistic Disorder | Bereavement | compulsion

The Caretakers

Bereaved mother Lorna, distracted, sits down in a movie theater. (0:03)

Apparently suffering from sensory overload from the movie, Lorna sweats, screams, and runs onto the stage in front of the screen. (0:05)

Now at Canterbury State Hospital we see Lorna restrained on a stretcher. (0:07)

We see a document entitled "Order of Commitment (Insane)" dated July 3, and 1962. It is rubberstamped "INSANE." (0:08)

Psychiatrist Dr. MacLeod removes Lorna's restraints and introduces himself. She licks her wrists, tries to escape and struggles with Dr. MacLeod. As he puts a pill in her mouth he tells her it is "something for sleep." (0:10)

Dr. MacLeod and nurse Alison tour the women's ward. (0:13)

Dr. MacLeod asks patient Freddy whether he is hearing voices again. (0:14)

Lorna's husband Jim tells Dr. MacLeod about "when our little boy was killed." (0:17)

Dr. MacLeod asks Lorna, "Do you know where you are?" (0:22)

Dr. MacLeod leads a psychotherapy group. (0:23)

Nurse watching a video monitor comments, "So that's the new deal in group therapy." (0:28)

Dr. MacLeod asks a group of nurses, "Well, what'd you think of our borderlines?" The nurse replies, "Some of them seem... insane." (0:29)

Dr. MacLeod explains to the group of nurses, "You've seen these women, disturbed, psychotic, miserable... The group fights to be normal." He then switches the video monitor to the "regressed ward." (0:30)

During a meeting with psychiatrist Jubal and nurse Lucretia Dr. MacLeod says there is "proof that even extreme mental illness can be helped by group therapy."

Dr. MacLeod wheels Lorna into a room for electroconvulsive therapy. He straps electrodes around her head, inserts a mouth guard, and initiates the treatment. We see a typical tonic and clonic response. (0:36)

We see patients in a row of bathtubs. Psychiatrist Larry tells a nurse it "brings her out of depression." (0:38)

Group psychotherapy. (0:47)

Lorna recalls, and blames herself for, the death of her son: "I killed my baby." (0:50)

Dr. MacLeod tells other staff, "Bracken deliberately slapped a defenseless catatonic patient..." (1:00)

At a picnic for patients and staff patient Marion (?) cuts in to dance with psychiatrist Larry. (1:06)

Dr. MacLeod directs technicians to restrain Lorna. (1:16)

Mute patient Edna in group psychotherapy. (1:17)

Dr. MacLeod tells nurse Connie Hal his mentally ill father "committed suicide..." (1:28)

Edna pours liquid onto a cloth from can marked "ether" and sets it aflame. (1:32)

As the film ends these words appear on the screen: "We are the caretakers of their hope -- their future." (1:37)

Might the references to "borderlines" and the borderline ward in this film refer, not to Borderline Personality Disorder of contemporary nomenclature, but to the earlier concept of mental illness between neurosis and psychosis in severity?

Bereavement | boundaries | electroconvulsive therapy | hypnotic | inhalant | group psychotherapy | mutism | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist | restraint | suicide

The Long Good Friday

At a train station widow Carol Benson watches as black suited men transfer the casket bearing the remains of her husband from the train to a hearse. (0:06)

Racketeer Harold grieves the death of his friend Colin. (0:30)

Harold finds Carol with her children at her husband's grave. (1:25)

Bereavement

Bed and Board

Antoine's lover Kyoko tells him at dinner, "If I commit suicide with someone, I'd like it to be you." (1:09)

In a phone call from the restaurant where he is dining with Kyoko, Antoine tells his wife Chirstine, referring to Kyoko, "But if she orders dessert, I'll kill myself." (1:33)

suicide

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Attorney Paul hands his wife, real estate agent, Meryl, an appointment card and assures her, "Dr. Tobin's apparently the best marriage counselor in the city." (0:08)

counselor

Shakedown

Drug dealer Michael removes a vial of crack cocaine from a pack of cigarettes, places some crack in a glass pipe and smokes it. (0:01)

Undercover cop Richie tells legal aid attorney Rolan, "Junkies come and go" (0:14)

In a club informant Stevie shows a girl a vial of crack. (0:36)

On the witness stand defendant Michael testifies that undercover cop Patrick "asked to buy lightin', the stuff you call crack." (1:07)

cocaine

The Southerner

Cotton picker Uncle Pete dies. (0:02)

We meet Finlay. (0:21) Might he have suffered a head injury, or is he mentally retarded?

Sharecropper Sam learns how farmer Devers' (Finlay's uncle) losses embittered him. (0:24)

A wedding guest asks the groom, "Hey, Harmie, now that you're married I suppose you'll be going on the wagon, huh?" (1:09)

Bereavement | on the wagon