#lightkeepers | The Lightkeepers
Castaway John tells light-keeper Seth, "I can't seem to remember." (0:06)
John tells Seth, "It's either insanity or..." (0:11)
John tells Seth,"This delirium is painful to a sensitive nature." (0:16)
John, after admitting his name is really Russell, tells visitor Ruth he "jumped overboard from a steamer and tried to kill myself." (1:05)
John tells Ruth, referring to the woman he had wanted to marry, "She jumped off a bridge." (1:16)
amnesia | Bereavement | delirium | insane | suicide
Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Bruce Dern, Tom Wisdom 2009
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Down to the Bone
#downbone
Grocery store cashier Irene snorts lines of cocaine with a soda straw. (0:03)
Irene rubs cocaine on her gums. (0:04)
Irene's husband Steve offers her joint. She finds cocaine and rubs some on her gums. (0:06)
Irene tries to buy drugs on credit, but the dealer turns her down. Later she tries to get residual cocaine out of a used soda straw by cutting it open. (0:10)
Irene's dealer turns her down again. (0:13)
A counselor evaluating Irene for admission to a residential treatment program refers to her "drug of choice."
"Coke."
He asks about her children: "They're aware of your drug use?"
Irene: "No"
Counselor: "It's a little hard for me to piece together that you use coke, and there's no employment problem..."
"That's a lot of drug use for a lot of years." (0:15)
Patients in the treatment center day room. (0:16)
Written on a blackboard: "CRAVING"
Counselor: "So we've all read the handout on cravings and how to deal with them... anybody here have a craving today?"
Hands go up.
"If that'll get you through a crave..."
Patient Hector: "I'm more comfortable when I'm high."
"What we're gonna talk about these craves... more comfortable than being high." (0:17)
Patient Hector asks the counselor: "This supposed to help me from stop doing drugs?" (0:22)
Counselor: "How many people here have been using alcohol and/or drugs for at least 10 years?"
"So your kids came to you and said, 'Mommy, why don't you go to rehab?'" (0:23)
An accupuncturist works on Hector and Irene. (0:24)
Nurse Bob, "I've seen a lot of people... using for years."
Irene refers to the book Bob gives her as "another twelve step book. Just what I wanted."
In her room Bob appears to break the rules by smoking himself and offering Irene a cigarette. Has Bob violated boundaries? (0:26)
Irene tells Steve in a telephone conversation, "One of the counselors here... I can't imagine being home and not using."
A nurse passes out medications. (0:28)
Narcotics Anonymous meeting: "Welcome. NA offers addicts a way to live drug free... Most of us felt like that when we first came to NA..."
"Somehow we knew that we couldn't go on using drugs, but we didn't know how to stop or stay clean."
Another member: "And the reason Al read that today is because it's his one anniversary." (0:32)
Outside the meeting a member talks about what he has given up: "Everything, no methadone." (0:33)
Her dealer sells Irene's guest April "four forty's."
Another guest crushes a white pill between bills with a lighter then divides the powder on a mirror with a card. He then rolls the bill, presumably preparing to insufflate the powder. (0:38)
Irene tells the store manager, "I used to be good and fast because I was high most of the time, but now I'm clean..."
Store manager: "Irene, you know our policy on drugs." (0:43)
Bob tells Irene, "You've only got a couple of weeks sober." (0:46)
Irene tells Lucy, referring to the bottle of Windex she uses, "This stuff smells like coke." (0:49)
Bob holds a syringe then injects his arm with an unidentified drug.
Irene: "Were you ever clean?"
Bob: "I hadn't done a bag in 5 years." (0:56)
Irene gets ready to use a drug.
Bob: "We'll get you some coke..."
Irene insufflates an unidentified drug. (0:58)
Lucy: "Irene, you're 13 stepping... when you... get that hole inside, and you just need to fill it.
Steve smokes a joint then shares it with Irene.
Irene: "I can't do this sober."
Steve: "I've got a little coke, but I mean you're not doing coke anymore, right?"
Steve opens a package. They both snort. (1:03)
Bob injects Irene's arm. He says, "Make a fist." (1:08)
A traffic cop asks Irene and Bob, "Is that a cooker?" (1:10)
Attorney Jerry tells Irene, "Police allege that you had half an ounce of heroin... have this matter transferred to drug court... counseling sessions... group... NA." (1:11)
Steve tells Irene, "It's your rehab friend." (1:13)
Irene tells Lucy, "I slipped."
Lucy, referring to Bob: "He made you slip." (1:16)
Irene gives observed urine sample to a nurse.
Counselor Karen tells the groupx it's "dirty urine day..."
Tillie: "I picked up some crack."
"I am concerned now that I told you that I used." (1:17)
The sign reads "DRUG FREE OUTPATIENT SERVICES." Irene provides a sample for a urine drug screen. (1:25)
A dealer measures pills out to Bob: "When'd you go off the wagon?" Bob swallows one.
Dealer: "You're stickin' sticks in your mouth..."
Bob: "I gotta decrease that methadone down to zip, and then I'm back to meetings."
Dealer: "You're talkin' about using... being addicted to something."
Bob folds foil around some orange pills. (1:27)
Lucy asks Irene, "What about the meetings? Has he been going to meetings?" (1:29)
Bob tells Irene, "I think it's the methadone. I lost my tolerance."
Irene: "You think the dose is too high?" (1:31)
Irene: "Bob, are you clean?"
Bob: "I'm on methadone, Irene."
"I'm taking some anti-anxiety drugs... makes the meth work better."
Irene: "So you can feel more high. So that the methadone is more like dope."
"I can understand... wanting to get high."
"I need you to be clean..." (1:33)
addiction | boundaries | cocaine | counselor | craving | drug testing | joint | meetings | methadone | Narcotics Anonymous | on the wagon | rehabilitation | slip | twelve steps
Vera Farmiga, Hugh Dillon, Clint Jordan 2004
Grocery store cashier Irene snorts lines of cocaine with a soda straw. (0:03)
Irene rubs cocaine on her gums. (0:04)
Irene's husband Steve offers her joint. She finds cocaine and rubs some on her gums. (0:06)
Irene tries to buy drugs on credit, but the dealer turns her down. Later she tries to get residual cocaine out of a used soda straw by cutting it open. (0:10)
Irene's dealer turns her down again. (0:13)
A counselor evaluating Irene for admission to a residential treatment program refers to her "drug of choice."
"Coke."
He asks about her children: "They're aware of your drug use?"
Irene: "No"
Counselor: "It's a little hard for me to piece together that you use coke, and there's no employment problem..."
"That's a lot of drug use for a lot of years." (0:15)
Patients in the treatment center day room. (0:16)
Written on a blackboard: "CRAVING"
Counselor: "So we've all read the handout on cravings and how to deal with them... anybody here have a craving today?"
Hands go up.
"If that'll get you through a crave..."
Patient Hector: "I'm more comfortable when I'm high."
"What we're gonna talk about these craves... more comfortable than being high." (0:17)
Patient Hector asks the counselor: "This supposed to help me from stop doing drugs?" (0:22)
Counselor: "How many people here have been using alcohol and/or drugs for at least 10 years?"
"So your kids came to you and said, 'Mommy, why don't you go to rehab?'" (0:23)
An accupuncturist works on Hector and Irene. (0:24)
Nurse Bob, "I've seen a lot of people... using for years."
Irene refers to the book Bob gives her as "another twelve step book. Just what I wanted."
In her room Bob appears to break the rules by smoking himself and offering Irene a cigarette. Has Bob violated boundaries? (0:26)
Irene tells Steve in a telephone conversation, "One of the counselors here... I can't imagine being home and not using."
A nurse passes out medications. (0:28)
Narcotics Anonymous meeting: "Welcome. NA offers addicts a way to live drug free... Most of us felt like that when we first came to NA..."
"Somehow we knew that we couldn't go on using drugs, but we didn't know how to stop or stay clean."
Another member: "And the reason Al read that today is because it's his one anniversary." (0:32)
Outside the meeting a member talks about what he has given up: "Everything, no methadone." (0:33)
Her dealer sells Irene's guest April "four forty's."
Another guest crushes a white pill between bills with a lighter then divides the powder on a mirror with a card. He then rolls the bill, presumably preparing to insufflate the powder. (0:38)
Irene tells the store manager, "I used to be good and fast because I was high most of the time, but now I'm clean..."
Store manager: "Irene, you know our policy on drugs." (0:43)
Bob tells Irene, "You've only got a couple of weeks sober." (0:46)
Irene tells Lucy, referring to the bottle of Windex she uses, "This stuff smells like coke." (0:49)
Bob holds a syringe then injects his arm with an unidentified drug.
Irene: "Were you ever clean?"
Bob: "I hadn't done a bag in 5 years." (0:56)
Irene gets ready to use a drug.
Bob: "We'll get you some coke..."
Irene insufflates an unidentified drug. (0:58)
Lucy: "Irene, you're 13 stepping... when you... get that hole inside, and you just need to fill it.
Steve smokes a joint then shares it with Irene.
Irene: "I can't do this sober."
Steve: "I've got a little coke, but I mean you're not doing coke anymore, right?"
Steve opens a package. They both snort. (1:03)
Bob injects Irene's arm. He says, "Make a fist." (1:08)
A traffic cop asks Irene and Bob, "Is that a cooker?" (1:10)
Attorney Jerry tells Irene, "Police allege that you had half an ounce of heroin... have this matter transferred to drug court... counseling sessions... group... NA." (1:11)
Steve tells Irene, "It's your rehab friend." (1:13)
Irene tells Lucy, "I slipped."
Lucy, referring to Bob: "He made you slip." (1:16)
Irene gives observed urine sample to a nurse.
Counselor Karen tells the groupx it's "dirty urine day..."
Tillie: "I picked up some crack."
"I am concerned now that I told you that I used." (1:17)
The sign reads "DRUG FREE OUTPATIENT SERVICES." Irene provides a sample for a urine drug screen. (1:25)
A dealer measures pills out to Bob: "When'd you go off the wagon?" Bob swallows one.
Dealer: "You're stickin' sticks in your mouth..."
Bob: "I gotta decrease that methadone down to zip, and then I'm back to meetings."
Dealer: "You're talkin' about using... being addicted to something."
Bob folds foil around some orange pills. (1:27)
Lucy asks Irene, "What about the meetings? Has he been going to meetings?" (1:29)
Bob tells Irene, "I think it's the methadone. I lost my tolerance."
Irene: "You think the dose is too high?" (1:31)
Irene: "Bob, are you clean?"
Bob: "I'm on methadone, Irene."
"I'm taking some anti-anxiety drugs... makes the meth work better."
Irene: "So you can feel more high. So that the methadone is more like dope."
"I can understand... wanting to get high."
"I need you to be clean..." (1:33)
addiction | boundaries | cocaine | counselor | craving | drug testing | joint | meetings | methadone | Narcotics Anonymous | on the wagon | rehabilitation | slip | twelve steps
Vera Farmiga, Hugh Dillon, Clint Jordan 2004
Monday, November 28, 2011
Made for Each Other
#madeeachother
Jane's mother Harriet suffers from a head cold. Can that be a Benzedrine inhaler she uses? (1:02)
Pilot Conway asks Jane's husband John on the telephone, "What do you think this is, a suicide club?" (1:17)
Jane tells Harriet, "If the baby dies I want to die too." (1:20)
amphetamine | suicide
Jane's mother Harriet suffers from a head cold. Can that be a Benzedrine inhaler she uses? (1:02)
Pilot Conway asks Jane's husband John on the telephone, "What do you think this is, a suicide club?" (1:17)
Jane tells Harriet, "If the baby dies I want to die too." (1:20)
amphetamine | suicide
Sunday, November 27, 2011
The House of Sand
#housesand
Áurea realizes her mother Dona Maria has died when her daughter Maria gives her Dona Maria's glasses. (1:05)
Bereavement
Áurea realizes her mother Dona Maria has died when her daughter Maria gives her Dona Maria's glasses. (1:05)
Bereavement
Saturday, November 26, 2011
8MM
#8mmmovie
Ms. Christian's butler tells private detective Tom, "Ms. Christian chose to take her own life this afternoon Mr. Wells." (1:32)
suicide
Ms. Christian's butler tells private detective Tom, "Ms. Christian chose to take her own life this afternoon Mr. Wells." (1:32)
suicide
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Lovely and Amazing
#lovelyamazing
Dad Bill tells their friend Donna, referring to his wife Michelle, "She's phobic about medication." (0:27)
Michelle's adopted sister Annie tells her "Big Sister" Lorraine, referring to her birth mother, "She couldn't take care of me because she was a crack head."
Referring to her father she says, "He's not even a drug addict." (0:37)
Dr. Crane tells Michelle and her sister Elizabeth, referring to their mother Jane, "The infection is causing confusion and delirium." (1:02)
Photo store manager Jordan asks Michelle, "Are you depressed?"
Jordan: "My dad is dead."
"My real dad died when I was 10."
"I miss him a lot. My mom and I don't even talk about him." (1:06)
Agent Cindy tells Michelle, "You know your sister is a neurotic mess." (1:12)
Annie tells Michelle, "My mom was a crack head." (1:22)
Bereavement | Delirium | neurosis
Dad Bill tells their friend Donna, referring to his wife Michelle, "She's phobic about medication." (0:27)
Michelle's adopted sister Annie tells her "Big Sister" Lorraine, referring to her birth mother, "She couldn't take care of me because she was a crack head."
Referring to her father she says, "He's not even a drug addict." (0:37)
Dr. Crane tells Michelle and her sister Elizabeth, referring to their mother Jane, "The infection is causing confusion and delirium." (1:02)
Photo store manager Jordan asks Michelle, "Are you depressed?"
Jordan: "My dad is dead."
"My real dad died when I was 10."
"I miss him a lot. My mom and I don't even talk about him." (1:06)
Agent Cindy tells Michelle, "You know your sister is a neurotic mess." (1:12)
Annie tells Michelle, "My mom was a crack head." (1:22)
Bereavement | Delirium | neurosis
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Son of Sam
#sonofsam
Hallucinated voices command serial killer David Berkowitz, "Listen to the voices."
In an alley a woman asks a man, "Got any... blow for me?"
"Give me some blow."
"I just want to get some blow and get out of here.."
Berkowitz hears voices say, "Son of Sam" (0:00)
The woman again: "Just give me some blow..." (0:03)
Berkowitz' attorney Brenda Klein tells him, "Your psychological evaluation... you are a paranoid schizophrenic. Are you aware that you're a paranoid schizophrenic?"
"Your psychological evaluation concurred that you are a paranoid schizophrenic, however, unfortunately, you are still fit to stand trial... Now that you've already admitted your guilt we have no choice but to go with an insanity plea."
"Well, an insanity plea could result in your spending the rest of your life in a hospital." (0:12)
Berkowitz "Some voices in my head. The devil." (0:14)
Berkowitz participates in a satanic ritual. (0:15)
A satanic cult member tells Berkowitz, "The voices will tell you what to do." (0:20)
Berkowitz voices: "You must kill... She must be killed... Kill her..." (0:22)
Berkowitz tells attorney Klein, "Demons never leave me alone... They never leave me alone."
Klein: "We're going to plead insanity." (0:26)
Voices tell Berkowitz to kill a couple (0:32)
Voices: "Kill them David... Do it now." (0:39)
Voices, referring to an older woman: "Do you think she knows, David?" (0:46)
Voices torment Berkowitz. (0:53)
Voices: "It's time again, David... She deserves to die... Wait... She hears the voices too." (1:05)
Voices: "Do it now... pull the trigger." (1:08)
cocaine | David Berkowitz | command hallucination | insanity defense | Paranoid Schizophrenia
Yogi Joshi, Elissa Dowling 2008
Hallucinated voices command serial killer David Berkowitz, "Listen to the voices."
In an alley a woman asks a man, "Got any... blow for me?"
"Give me some blow."
"I just want to get some blow and get out of here.."
Berkowitz hears voices say, "Son of Sam" (0:00)
The woman again: "Just give me some blow..." (0:03)
Berkowitz' attorney Brenda Klein tells him, "Your psychological evaluation... you are a paranoid schizophrenic. Are you aware that you're a paranoid schizophrenic?"
"Your psychological evaluation concurred that you are a paranoid schizophrenic, however, unfortunately, you are still fit to stand trial... Now that you've already admitted your guilt we have no choice but to go with an insanity plea."
"Well, an insanity plea could result in your spending the rest of your life in a hospital." (0:12)
Berkowitz "Some voices in my head. The devil." (0:14)
Berkowitz participates in a satanic ritual. (0:15)
A satanic cult member tells Berkowitz, "The voices will tell you what to do." (0:20)
Berkowitz voices: "You must kill... She must be killed... Kill her..." (0:22)
Berkowitz tells attorney Klein, "Demons never leave me alone... They never leave me alone."
Klein: "We're going to plead insanity." (0:26)
Voices tell Berkowitz to kill a couple (0:32)
Voices: "Kill them David... Do it now." (0:39)
Voices, referring to an older woman: "Do you think she knows, David?" (0:46)
Voices torment Berkowitz. (0:53)
Voices: "It's time again, David... She deserves to die... Wait... She hears the voices too." (1:05)
Voices: "Do it now... pull the trigger." (1:08)
cocaine | David Berkowitz | command hallucination | insanity defense | Paranoid Schizophrenia
Yogi Joshi, Elissa Dowling 2008
Sunday, November 20, 2011
My Name Is Khan
#namekhan
Immigrant Rizvan Khan's identification card reads "Autism Alert." (0:05)
Young Rizvan perseverates while talking with his mother Ammi, repeating, "Kill time." (0:10)
Rizvan repeats what he hears others say. Echolalia? (0:12)
Rizvan demonstrates constricted affect while talking with Ammi about his brother Zakir. (0:20)
Ammi has died. The burial service. (0:21)
Rizvan doesn't respond to his sister-in-law Hasina.
Rizvan, referring to Hasina: "She taught psychology in the university here. She was the first to find out that I had Asperger's syndrome. My fear of new places. New people. My hatred for the color yellow and sharp sounds. The reason for me being so different from everyone was defined in just two words... Asperger's Syndrome." (0:23)
A sign reads "Autistic Society."
Hasina tells Zakir, "I took bhai to the Autistic Society. Mrs. Brennan there believes that bhai better than most people with Asperger's." (0:24)
Rizvan introduces himself to everyone in the hair salon of Mandira: "My name is Rizvan Khan. Khan. Khan. I may look a little strange to you but that's because I have Asperger's Syndrome. It's named after Dr. Hans Asperger. This doesn't mean I'm mad. I'm very intelligent. Very smart. Very smart. But there are certain things I don't understand. For instance, people say when I go to there houses, 'Come, Rizvan. Think of it as your own house.' But how do I do that when the house isn't mine? I don't understand why people say one thing and think another." (0:31)
Mandira tells Rizvan, "Oh god I want to kill myself."
Rizvan: "Oh no, no, no. Don't kill yourself." (0:43)
Mandira threatens Rizvan if he refuses to take her son Sam to the Discovery Museum, "I kill myself."
Rizvan: "Please, please, don't kill your self." (0:45)
Burial of Rizvan's friend Mark. (1:13)
Rizvan, upset, rocking back and forth. (1:16)
Rizvan and Mandira grieve the death of their son Sam. (1:20)
Mandira grieves with Sam's body. (1:20)
Rizvan tells Mandira, "Doctors say that post-traumatic stress disorder causes people to ignore their health."
Mandira: "I want to die." (1:27)
Rizvan: "Mama Jenny's elder son, James, was killed two months ago in the Iraq war."
"Sam has gone for 179 days..."
Memorial service at the church "for all the soldiers killed in Iraq."
Rizvan tells the congregation: "But I can't sense unexpressed feelings." (1:43)
Rizvan writes Mandira, "He has also ordered that I meet a psychiatrist." (2:01)
Psychiatrist (?) tells agent, "It's time for his session with me." (2:04)
Over the telephone Mrs. Brennan: "This is Tracy Brennan, chairperson of the American Autistic Society in San Francisco." (2:07)
Signs at a rally: "AUTISTIC" (2:09)
What other psychopathology does Rizvan demonstrate? Concrete thinking?
Asperger's Disorder | Autistic Disorder | Bereavement | concrete thinking | constricted affect | echolalia | perseveration | suicide
Immigrant Rizvan Khan's identification card reads "Autism Alert." (0:05)
Young Rizvan perseverates while talking with his mother Ammi, repeating, "Kill time." (0:10)
Rizvan repeats what he hears others say. Echolalia? (0:12)
Rizvan demonstrates constricted affect while talking with Ammi about his brother Zakir. (0:20)
Ammi has died. The burial service. (0:21)
Rizvan doesn't respond to his sister-in-law Hasina.
Rizvan, referring to Hasina: "She taught psychology in the university here. She was the first to find out that I had Asperger's syndrome. My fear of new places. New people. My hatred for the color yellow and sharp sounds. The reason for me being so different from everyone was defined in just two words... Asperger's Syndrome." (0:23)
A sign reads "Autistic Society."
Hasina tells Zakir, "I took bhai to the Autistic Society. Mrs. Brennan there believes that bhai better than most people with Asperger's." (0:24)
Rizvan introduces himself to everyone in the hair salon of Mandira: "My name is Rizvan Khan. Khan. Khan. I may look a little strange to you but that's because I have Asperger's Syndrome. It's named after Dr. Hans Asperger. This doesn't mean I'm mad. I'm very intelligent. Very smart. Very smart. But there are certain things I don't understand. For instance, people say when I go to there houses, 'Come, Rizvan. Think of it as your own house.' But how do I do that when the house isn't mine? I don't understand why people say one thing and think another." (0:31)
Mandira tells Rizvan, "Oh god I want to kill myself."
Rizvan: "Oh no, no, no. Don't kill yourself." (0:43)
Mandira threatens Rizvan if he refuses to take her son Sam to the Discovery Museum, "I kill myself."
Rizvan: "Please, please, don't kill your self." (0:45)
Burial of Rizvan's friend Mark. (1:13)
Rizvan, upset, rocking back and forth. (1:16)
Rizvan and Mandira grieve the death of their son Sam. (1:20)
Mandira grieves with Sam's body. (1:20)
Rizvan tells Mandira, "Doctors say that post-traumatic stress disorder causes people to ignore their health."
Mandira: "I want to die." (1:27)
Rizvan: "Mama Jenny's elder son, James, was killed two months ago in the Iraq war."
"Sam has gone for 179 days..."
Memorial service at the church "for all the soldiers killed in Iraq."
Rizvan tells the congregation: "But I can't sense unexpressed feelings." (1:43)
Rizvan writes Mandira, "He has also ordered that I meet a psychiatrist." (2:01)
Psychiatrist (?) tells agent, "It's time for his session with me." (2:04)
Over the telephone Mrs. Brennan: "This is Tracy Brennan, chairperson of the American Autistic Society in San Francisco." (2:07)
Signs at a rally: "AUTISTIC" (2:09)
What other psychopathology does Rizvan demonstrate? Concrete thinking?
Asperger's Disorder | Autistic Disorder | Bereavement | concrete thinking | constricted affect | echolalia | perseveration | suicide
Saturday, November 19, 2011
The Bells of St. Mary's
#bellsstmarys
Dr. McKay tells Sister Mary and Father Chuck O'Malley, referring to real estate magnate Horace, "That's why I'm giving him sleeping tablets." (1:27)
hypnotic
Dr. McKay tells Sister Mary and Father Chuck O'Malley, referring to real estate magnate Horace, "That's why I'm giving him sleeping tablets." (1:27)
hypnotic
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
#diarymad | Diary of a Mad Black Woman | Facebook
Grandmother Madea tells Helen, "Ain't nothin' but a crackhead or the police knockin' on your door this time of night." (0:15)
Madea's husband Joe smokes a joint. He tells card player Mildred, "Ain't supposed to smoke this when you're on lithium." (0:30)
Helen's brother Brian tells Helen, "The mother of my kids is a junkie." (0:32)
Mildred smokes the joint. She hallucinates rats and panics. (0:34)
Gangster Jamison tells lawyer Charles, "I ran so much coke for you back in the day..." (0:37)
Madea tells Joe, "She ain't sellin' no dope, Joe." (0:39)
Madea tells Brian, "Love is stronger than any addiction." (1:06)
Is Brian's wife Debrah at a crack house or a half way house? (1:36)
Debrah enters "St Joseph's Rehabilitation Center." (1:40)
Reverend Carter tells the congregation, "God can deliver you out of any addiction situation." (1:41)
hallucination | joint | lithium
Grandmother Madea tells Helen, "Ain't nothin' but a crackhead or the police knockin' on your door this time of night." (0:15)
Madea's husband Joe smokes a joint. He tells card player Mildred, "Ain't supposed to smoke this when you're on lithium." (0:30)
Helen's brother Brian tells Helen, "The mother of my kids is a junkie." (0:32)
Mildred smokes the joint. She hallucinates rats and panics. (0:34)
Gangster Jamison tells lawyer Charles, "I ran so much coke for you back in the day..." (0:37)
Madea tells Joe, "She ain't sellin' no dope, Joe." (0:39)
Madea tells Brian, "Love is stronger than any addiction." (1:06)
Is Brian's wife Debrah at a crack house or a half way house? (1:36)
Debrah enters "St Joseph's Rehabilitation Center." (1:40)
Reverend Carter tells the congregation, "God can deliver you out of any addiction situation." (1:41)
hallucination | joint | lithium
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The Stoned Age
#stonedage
Rocker Hubbs suggests to rocker Joe what they should use: "then an eight ball, no, quarter O Z... then we spark up the thick burlacious ganja bud."
Joe: "tryin' to get drunk, stoned..."
Hubbs: "What about the skank weed your brother sold you?"
Joe, handling a bag: "Got about half a joint's worth... gives me a headache."
Hubbs: "... half a joint of rag weed." (0:05)
Hubbs tells Tack, "We'll trade you this half joint of burl sens bud..."
Tack: "... skank weed, man." (0:10)
Lanie asks Hubbs and Joe, "You guys got any blow?"
"You guys got any crank?"
"Got any ludes?" (0:18)
Lanie asks Joe, "What's a person got to do to get any drugs in this city?"
Joe: "I've got some lumbo back in the torpedo." (0:37)
Lanie tells Joe, "Let's smoke that joint in that guy's Jacuzzi." (0:38)
Lanie tells Joe, "I love getting stoned and partyin' all night."
Joe cuts an empty beer can with his knife to make a pipe. (0:39)
Jill tells Joe: "I wish we had some dope or something." (0:59)
Joe: "I've got some lumbo... I mean, uh, actually it's skank weed."
They smoke it in a beer can pipe. (0:59)
Joe tells Jill, "Everybody's too busy gettin' stoned... catch a buzz off that thing?"
Joe: "My head hurts." (1:00)
Jill tells Joe, "Maybe you should lay off the dope." (1:04)
cannabis | Cannabis Intoxication | methaqualone
Rocker Hubbs suggests to rocker Joe what they should use: "then an eight ball, no, quarter O Z... then we spark up the thick burlacious ganja bud."
Joe: "tryin' to get drunk, stoned..."
Hubbs: "What about the skank weed your brother sold you?"
Joe, handling a bag: "Got about half a joint's worth... gives me a headache."
Hubbs: "... half a joint of rag weed." (0:05)
Hubbs tells Tack, "We'll trade you this half joint of burl sens bud..."
Tack: "... skank weed, man." (0:10)
Lanie asks Hubbs and Joe, "You guys got any blow?"
"You guys got any crank?"
"Got any ludes?" (0:18)
Lanie asks Joe, "What's a person got to do to get any drugs in this city?"
Joe: "I've got some lumbo back in the torpedo." (0:37)
Lanie tells Joe, "Let's smoke that joint in that guy's Jacuzzi." (0:38)
Lanie tells Joe, "I love getting stoned and partyin' all night."
Joe cuts an empty beer can with his knife to make a pipe. (0:39)
Jill tells Joe: "I wish we had some dope or something." (0:59)
Joe: "I've got some lumbo... I mean, uh, actually it's skank weed."
They smoke it in a beer can pipe. (0:59)
Joe tells Jill, "Everybody's too busy gettin' stoned... catch a buzz off that thing?"
Joe: "My head hurts." (1:00)
Jill tells Joe, "Maybe you should lay off the dope." (1:04)
cannabis | Cannabis Intoxication | methaqualone
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The Virgin Suicides
#virginsuicides
Spoiler alert!
"Cecilia was the first to go." She appears drowned in a bathtub. (0:01)
"Everyone dates the demise of our neighborhood to the suicides of the Lisbon girls." (0:02)
"Everyone had an opinion as to why Cecilia tried to kill herself." (0:04)
Dominic jumps off the roof of his relatives' house. He gets up and walks away unharmed. (0:05)
Psychiatrist E. M. Horniker, MD, PHD tells Cecilia, "I'm gonna show you some images, and you tell me what they remind you of." He administers the Rorschach.
Cecilia's wrists are bandaged.
Dr. Horniker tells her parents, "I don't think that Cecilia truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help." (0:05)
Her sister Therese tapes bracelets over the bandages on Cecilia's wrists. (0:11)
Cecilia has jumped, impaling self on iron fence. Her father Ronald holds her lifeless body. (0:17)
A cemetery, funeral procession. (0:18)
Television reporter Lydia Perl asks Cecilia's sisters, "Did she ever talk about ending her life?"
She reports on television, "The suicide of a teenager... tragically put an end to her life. (0:27)
Tim imagines he sees Cecelia talking to him from the foot of his bed. Chase imagines he sees her watching him from a tree. (0:30)
An assembly speaker tells the students she has been "Reading about the alarming suicide rate..." (0:33)
Narrator: "The green pamphlets told us there were 80 suicides a day in America..." (0:33)
Trip smokes a joint in a car: "He went out to his car to smoke the marijuana..." (0:36)
Trip smoking a joint: "Kevin Head... had the killer weed." (0:50)
A nurse tells adult Trip, apparently in a psychiatric hospital, "Time for your 6 o'clock group meeting." (1:06)
Lydia on television refers to Cecilia, "whose suicide last summer..." (1:13)
The four boys enter the Lisbon house to find a sister apparently hanging by her neck. Another lies on floor.
"Mary put her head in the oven... Therese, stuffed with sleeping pills, was gone by the time we got there. Lux was the last to go." Her lifeless arm hangs from the window of the running car in the closed garage.
Lydia and others report the suicides on television. (1:23)
"After the suicide free-for-all Mr and Mrs Lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life." (1:26)
"It was... over a year from the time Cecelia had slit her wrists." (1:27)
Bereavement | hallucination | joint | psychiatrist | Hermann Rorschach | suicide
Read the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides:
Spoiler alert!
"Cecilia was the first to go." She appears drowned in a bathtub. (0:01)
"Everyone dates the demise of our neighborhood to the suicides of the Lisbon girls." (0:02)
"Everyone had an opinion as to why Cecilia tried to kill herself." (0:04)
Dominic jumps off the roof of his relatives' house. He gets up and walks away unharmed. (0:05)
Psychiatrist E. M. Horniker, MD, PHD tells Cecilia, "I'm gonna show you some images, and you tell me what they remind you of." He administers the Rorschach.
Cecilia's wrists are bandaged.
Dr. Horniker tells her parents, "I don't think that Cecilia truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help." (0:05)
Her sister Therese tapes bracelets over the bandages on Cecilia's wrists. (0:11)
Cecilia has jumped, impaling self on iron fence. Her father Ronald holds her lifeless body. (0:17)
A cemetery, funeral procession. (0:18)
Television reporter Lydia Perl asks Cecilia's sisters, "Did she ever talk about ending her life?"
She reports on television, "The suicide of a teenager... tragically put an end to her life. (0:27)
Tim imagines he sees Cecelia talking to him from the foot of his bed. Chase imagines he sees her watching him from a tree. (0:30)
An assembly speaker tells the students she has been "Reading about the alarming suicide rate..." (0:33)
Narrator: "The green pamphlets told us there were 80 suicides a day in America..." (0:33)
Trip smokes a joint in a car: "He went out to his car to smoke the marijuana..." (0:36)
Trip smoking a joint: "Kevin Head... had the killer weed." (0:50)
A nurse tells adult Trip, apparently in a psychiatric hospital, "Time for your 6 o'clock group meeting." (1:06)
Lydia on television refers to Cecilia, "whose suicide last summer..." (1:13)
The four boys enter the Lisbon house to find a sister apparently hanging by her neck. Another lies on floor.
"Mary put her head in the oven... Therese, stuffed with sleeping pills, was gone by the time we got there. Lux was the last to go." Her lifeless arm hangs from the window of the running car in the closed garage.
Lydia and others report the suicides on television. (1:23)
"After the suicide free-for-all Mr and Mrs Lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life." (1:26)
"It was... over a year from the time Cecelia had slit her wrists." (1:27)
Bereavement | hallucination | joint | psychiatrist | Hermann Rorschach | suicide
Read the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides:
Clean, Shaven
#cleanshaven
Spoiler alert!
What makes Peter cower in the corner? (0:02)
Auditory hallucinations: (0:03, 0:17, 0:38, 0:40, 0:54, 0:59)
Peter covers mirrors and breaks or covers the windows of his car. (0:04)
A voice poses a question: "Is that paranoia?" (0:06)
Peter turns his motel room mirror so it faces the wall. (0:12)
Peter cuts his scalp with scissors as if to remove a growth. (0:13)
He scrubs his neck with a steel wool pad. (0:13, 0:48)
Is this some kind of flashback? (0:15)
In the library Peter bangs his head on the books and shelves. (0:41)
Peter holds his head as he hallucinates. (0:44)
Hearing more hallucinated voices Peter opens his car door at speed as though he intends to jump. (0:51)
With his pocket knife Peter cuts his fingernail then cuts it out and gouges the nail bed. (0:54)
Peter tells his daughter Nicole, "They had put a small receiver in the back of my head and a transmitter in my fingernail."
"To get at the transmitter I had to take my fingernail off... I think clearer, but I still have to get the receiver out of my head." (1:06)
Peter's mother Gladys cries after Peter has been killed. (1:13)
Bereavement | delusion | hallucination | paranoia | Schizophrenia | self mutilation
Spoiler alert!
What makes Peter cower in the corner? (0:02)
Auditory hallucinations: (0:03, 0:17, 0:38, 0:40, 0:54, 0:59)
Peter covers mirrors and breaks or covers the windows of his car. (0:04)
A voice poses a question: "Is that paranoia?" (0:06)
Peter turns his motel room mirror so it faces the wall. (0:12)
Peter cuts his scalp with scissors as if to remove a growth. (0:13)
He scrubs his neck with a steel wool pad. (0:13, 0:48)
Is this some kind of flashback? (0:15)
In the library Peter bangs his head on the books and shelves. (0:41)
Peter holds his head as he hallucinates. (0:44)
Hearing more hallucinated voices Peter opens his car door at speed as though he intends to jump. (0:51)
With his pocket knife Peter cuts his fingernail then cuts it out and gouges the nail bed. (0:54)
Peter tells his daughter Nicole, "They had put a small receiver in the back of my head and a transmitter in my fingernail."
"To get at the transmitter I had to take my fingernail off... I think clearer, but I still have to get the receiver out of my head." (1:06)
Peter's mother Gladys cries after Peter has been killed. (1:13)
Bereavement | delusion | hallucination | paranoia | Schizophrenia | self mutilation
The Visitors
#thevisitors
Referring to wizard Eusebius, Jacquouille tells Godefroy, "But they say he's senile."
"It's sheer lunacy."
"He's senile." (0:15)
Dr. Bauvin tells the gendarme: "Psychology Sergeant-Major."
He tells Godefroy, "A little shot and you'll be good as new." He reaches for his syringe. (0:30)
Dr. Bauvin, referring to Godefroy: "He's calmed down. Hold him down. I'll put him to sleep." He stuffs pills from a prescription bottle into Godefroy's mouth. (0:32)
Godefroy: "Their little red balls made me sleep."
Dr. Bauvin tells Godefroy's unsuspecting descendant Béatrice, "The 'little red balls' are Valium. Fifty milligrams. He barely slept."
Godefroy: "I am neither sick nor loony."
Dr. Bauvin: "Persecution mania."
"He's completely amnesic."
Béatrice: "Amnesiac?"
Dr. Bauvin: "It's often the case with amnesiacs."
Dr. Bauvin tells Jean-Pierre, "Take the Valium. If he gets violent give him five of them." (0:38)
Béatrice: "Jean-Pierre he has amnesia."
Jean-Pierre: "Who has amnesia?" (0:42)
Dentist Jean-Pierre tells Godefroy, "Stop that or I'll give you the little red balls." He holds out the prescription bottle. (0:44)
Observing her guests' behavior Béatrice asks, "Can amnesia be this serious?" (0:45)
Jean-Pierre: "Béa, they're retarded." (0:46)
Béatrice tells Godefroy, "Relax. You're hysterical, Hube." (0:49)
Jean-Pierre tells Béatrice, "Send them to the nuthouse." (0:53)
Jacquard tells Jean-Pierre and Béatrice, referring to Godefroy, "If he can't understand why Jacquart sounds better than Jacquasse, he should see a shrink."
Béatrice: "Amnesia." (0:57)
Jean-Pierre: "I can't stand it anymore."
Béatrice: "Take a Valium." (1:02)
Béatrice tells Jean-Pierre, "Jacquart will understand that Hubert is mentally ill."
Jean-Pierre: "Lock him up if he's mentally ill (1:04)
Outside the office a sign reads:
"Ferdinand Eusebe
Medium-Guerisseur
Parapsychologue." (1:23)
Béatrice tells her embarrassed husband, "Jean-Pierre, you're paranoid. No one is staring." (1:26)
The police chief asks Godefroy, "What is that? crack? LSD?" (1:30)
Godefroy tells Béatrice, "The little red balls!"
Béatrice: "You want a tranquilizer, Hube?"
Jean-Pierre: "He's making progress. He realizes he's cracking up. Maybe he'll ask to be locked up." Insight?
Godefroy dumps the bottle of Valium into Jacquard's open mouth. (1:30)
Jacquard becomes intoxicated from the Valium. (1:37)
Jacquard screams, "I'm hallucinating!" (1:43)
amnesia | sedative | Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Intoxication | Valium
Referring to wizard Eusebius, Jacquouille tells Godefroy, "But they say he's senile."
"It's sheer lunacy."
"He's senile." (0:15)
Dr. Bauvin tells the gendarme: "Psychology Sergeant-Major."
He tells Godefroy, "A little shot and you'll be good as new." He reaches for his syringe. (0:30)
Dr. Bauvin, referring to Godefroy: "He's calmed down. Hold him down. I'll put him to sleep." He stuffs pills from a prescription bottle into Godefroy's mouth. (0:32)
Godefroy: "Their little red balls made me sleep."
Dr. Bauvin tells Godefroy's unsuspecting descendant Béatrice, "The 'little red balls' are Valium. Fifty milligrams. He barely slept."
Godefroy: "I am neither sick nor loony."
Dr. Bauvin: "Persecution mania."
"He's completely amnesic."
Béatrice: "Amnesiac?"
Dr. Bauvin: "It's often the case with amnesiacs."
Dr. Bauvin tells Jean-Pierre, "Take the Valium. If he gets violent give him five of them." (0:38)
Béatrice: "Jean-Pierre he has amnesia."
Jean-Pierre: "Who has amnesia?" (0:42)
Dentist Jean-Pierre tells Godefroy, "Stop that or I'll give you the little red balls." He holds out the prescription bottle. (0:44)
Observing her guests' behavior Béatrice asks, "Can amnesia be this serious?" (0:45)
Jean-Pierre: "Béa, they're retarded." (0:46)
Béatrice tells Godefroy, "Relax. You're hysterical, Hube." (0:49)
Jean-Pierre tells Béatrice, "Send them to the nuthouse." (0:53)
Jacquard tells Jean-Pierre and Béatrice, referring to Godefroy, "If he can't understand why Jacquart sounds better than Jacquasse, he should see a shrink."
Béatrice: "Amnesia." (0:57)
Jean-Pierre: "I can't stand it anymore."
Béatrice: "Take a Valium." (1:02)
Béatrice tells Jean-Pierre, "Jacquart will understand that Hubert is mentally ill."
Jean-Pierre: "Lock him up if he's mentally ill (1:04)
Outside the office a sign reads:
"Ferdinand Eusebe
Medium-Guerisseur
Parapsychologue." (1:23)
Béatrice tells her embarrassed husband, "Jean-Pierre, you're paranoid. No one is staring." (1:26)
The police chief asks Godefroy, "What is that? crack? LSD?" (1:30)
Godefroy tells Béatrice, "The little red balls!"
Béatrice: "You want a tranquilizer, Hube?"
Jean-Pierre: "He's making progress. He realizes he's cracking up. Maybe he'll ask to be locked up." Insight?
Godefroy dumps the bottle of Valium into Jacquard's open mouth. (1:30)
Jacquard becomes intoxicated from the Valium. (1:37)
Jacquard screams, "I'm hallucinating!" (1:43)
amnesia | sedative | Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Intoxication | Valium
Monday, November 7, 2011
Silk Stockings
#silkstockings
Composer Boroff tells producer Steve, "I'm going to kill myself."
"I've got to kill myself." (0:03)
suicide
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre 1957
Composer Boroff tells producer Steve, "I'm going to kill myself."
"I've got to kill myself." (0:03)
suicide
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre 1957
Thursday, November 3, 2011
L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)
#spanishapartment
Neurologist Jean-Michel explains the brain to student Xavier using food to build an anatomical model. "You have the cerebral cortex... with the memory situated in the hippocampus inside the temporal lobe. I summarize, because memory... and this region, which manages language... For example, the effects of amnesia on a bilingual person."
"An unconscious trauma may allow him to retain his mother tongue, but the second language -- gone! (0:19)
Jean-Michel's wife Ann-Sophie faints while looking at the view of Barcelona from the top of a tall building. Acrophobia? Later, on a tram (1:03), she seems to have no symptoms. (0:36)
Student Wendy asks her apartment mates, "Why do you always have to smoke joints in my room?" (0:39)
Alessandro tells his apartment mates, "I was gonna do them, but you're a maniac." (0:41)
Xavier and student Isabelle share a joint. (0:46)
Ann-Sophie asks Xavier, "Do you find me repressed?" 1:00
Xavier sees and even talks with a vision of Erasmus. Hallucination? (1:30)
Xavier tells Jean-Michel, "I can't sleep. I'm depressed."
"Does that cause visions?"
"I see Erasmus." (1:32)
acrophobia | depression | hallucination | joint | memory | repression
Romain Duris, Judith Godrche, Kelly Reilly 2002
Neurologist Jean-Michel explains the brain to student Xavier using food to build an anatomical model. "You have the cerebral cortex... with the memory situated in the hippocampus inside the temporal lobe. I summarize, because memory... and this region, which manages language... For example, the effects of amnesia on a bilingual person."
"An unconscious trauma may allow him to retain his mother tongue, but the second language -- gone! (0:19)
Jean-Michel's wife Ann-Sophie faints while looking at the view of Barcelona from the top of a tall building. Acrophobia? Later, on a tram (1:03), she seems to have no symptoms. (0:36)
Student Wendy asks her apartment mates, "Why do you always have to smoke joints in my room?" (0:39)
Alessandro tells his apartment mates, "I was gonna do them, but you're a maniac." (0:41)
Xavier and student Isabelle share a joint. (0:46)
Ann-Sophie asks Xavier, "Do you find me repressed?" 1:00
Xavier sees and even talks with a vision of Erasmus. Hallucination? (1:30)
Xavier tells Jean-Michel, "I can't sleep. I'm depressed."
"Does that cause visions?"
"I see Erasmus." (1:32)
acrophobia | depression | hallucination | joint | memory | repression
Romain Duris, Judith Godrche, Kelly Reilly 2002
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Reefer Madness
#reefermadness
Excerpts from rolling text: "frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America... Marihuana... violent narcotic -- an unspeakable scourge... first effect is sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations... fixed ideas... conjuring up monstrous extravagances... emotional disturbances... inability to direct thoughts,... loss of all power to resist physical emotions... acts of shocking violence... ending often in incurable insanity... results of Marihuana." (0:01)
Dr. Alfred Carroll speaks to the School-Parents Association about the need for "... compulsory education on the subject of narcotics in general... marijuana in particular."
"fight is directed by the Department of Narcotics, Washington" He reads a letter from the Narcotics Bureau: "The weed marijuana is growing in every state in the union."
Scenes of marijuana growing in Brooklyn, joint rolling machine in use, man with piles of white powder (in an evidence room?).
"deadly narcotic... sale of marijuana even more difficult to detect and halt than the traffic of drugs such as opium, morphine and heroin." Scenes of hidden drugs discovered, destroyed (0:03)
A piano player lights a joint, smokes. (0:14)
Drug dealer Mae passes out joints to students Mary and Bill in her apartment. Ralph smokes then laughs. (0:22)
Mary's brother Jimmy drives recklessly after smoking, hits a pedestrian. (0:25)
"Bureau of Investigation" office: An agent talks to Dr. Carroll: "distributing the narcotic to students... " (0:27)
"Marijuana is not like other forms of dope."
"In 1930 the records on MJ... 16 years old and a marijuana addict..."
Dr Carroll: "Under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe."
Agent: "a reefer smoker..." (0:27)
Intoxication portayed: laughter, disinhibition. (0:32)
Ralph gets Mary to smoke a joint. She giggles. Ralph attacks her. Bill intervenes. (0:36)
Dr. Carroll on the witness stand at Bill's trial talks about the effects of marijuana: "at times disassociation." (0:43)
Ralph puffing, getts angry, Jack tells Mae, "All we have to do is keep him from having too many reefers." (0:45)
The prosecuting attorney tells the jury, "The defendant might have become momentarily insane when he fired the shot... but the defense has been unable to prove that he was insane. William Harper was sane when he visited the apartment... He was sane when he... "
Dr. Carroll tells the court he saw Bill playing tennis miss "the ball by as much as 3 or 4 feet... marijuana... causes errors in time and space."
An attorney objects: "The witness isn't qualified to express opinions on the effect of narcotics."
Dr. Carroll: "He suddenly burst into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical laughter." (0:48)
A juror argues to the other jurors, "But he might have been insane when he did it."
"But supposing he was insane?"
"But there's a reasonable doubt about the boy's sanity."
Jury foreman: "We can't have every murderer hiding behind the... that he's insane." (0:49)
Ralph is agitated, pacing. He orders Mae to "Bring me some reefers." He becomes labile and cries. He gives a joint to Blanche and urges her to "Play faster."
Ralph tells Jack, illustrating paranoia, "You want to kill me."
He beats Jack while Blanche laughs. (0:52)
Blanche tell the judge, referring to Bill "He was so doped up..." (1:00)
Blanche throws herself through a window to her death.
The judge admonishes Bill to "keep you from the vicious pitfalls of marijuana." (1:03)
Referring to Ralph, the prosecuting attorney tells the judge that he waves trial because he is "convinced that he is hopelessly and incurably insane, a condition caused by the drug marijuana to which he was addicted. It is recommended that the defendant be placed in an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life. (1:05)
addiction | cannabis | Cannabis Intoxication | insanity | inappropriate affect | insanity defense | joint | labile affect | paranoia | suicide
Excerpts from rolling text: "frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America... Marihuana... violent narcotic -- an unspeakable scourge... first effect is sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations... fixed ideas... conjuring up monstrous extravagances... emotional disturbances... inability to direct thoughts,... loss of all power to resist physical emotions... acts of shocking violence... ending often in incurable insanity... results of Marihuana." (0:01)
Dr. Alfred Carroll speaks to the School-Parents Association about the need for "... compulsory education on the subject of narcotics in general... marijuana in particular."
"fight is directed by the Department of Narcotics, Washington" He reads a letter from the Narcotics Bureau: "The weed marijuana is growing in every state in the union."
Scenes of marijuana growing in Brooklyn, joint rolling machine in use, man with piles of white powder (in an evidence room?).
"deadly narcotic... sale of marijuana even more difficult to detect and halt than the traffic of drugs such as opium, morphine and heroin." Scenes of hidden drugs discovered, destroyed (0:03)
A piano player lights a joint, smokes. (0:14)
Drug dealer Mae passes out joints to students Mary and Bill in her apartment. Ralph smokes then laughs. (0:22)
Mary's brother Jimmy drives recklessly after smoking, hits a pedestrian. (0:25)
"Bureau of Investigation" office: An agent talks to Dr. Carroll: "distributing the narcotic to students... " (0:27)
"Marijuana is not like other forms of dope."
"In 1930 the records on MJ... 16 years old and a marijuana addict..."
Dr Carroll: "Under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe."
Agent: "a reefer smoker..." (0:27)
Intoxication portayed: laughter, disinhibition. (0:32)
Ralph gets Mary to smoke a joint. She giggles. Ralph attacks her. Bill intervenes. (0:36)
Dr. Carroll on the witness stand at Bill's trial talks about the effects of marijuana: "at times disassociation." (0:43)
Ralph puffing, getts angry, Jack tells Mae, "All we have to do is keep him from having too many reefers." (0:45)
The prosecuting attorney tells the jury, "The defendant might have become momentarily insane when he fired the shot... but the defense has been unable to prove that he was insane. William Harper was sane when he visited the apartment... He was sane when he... "
Dr. Carroll tells the court he saw Bill playing tennis miss "the ball by as much as 3 or 4 feet... marijuana... causes errors in time and space."
An attorney objects: "The witness isn't qualified to express opinions on the effect of narcotics."
Dr. Carroll: "He suddenly burst into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical laughter." (0:48)
A juror argues to the other jurors, "But he might have been insane when he did it."
"But supposing he was insane?"
"But there's a reasonable doubt about the boy's sanity."
Jury foreman: "We can't have every murderer hiding behind the... that he's insane." (0:49)
Ralph is agitated, pacing. He orders Mae to "Bring me some reefers." He becomes labile and cries. He gives a joint to Blanche and urges her to "Play faster."
Ralph tells Jack, illustrating paranoia, "You want to kill me."
He beats Jack while Blanche laughs. (0:52)
Blanche tell the judge, referring to Bill "He was so doped up..." (1:00)
Blanche throws herself through a window to her death.
The judge admonishes Bill to "keep you from the vicious pitfalls of marijuana." (1:03)
Referring to Ralph, the prosecuting attorney tells the judge that he waves trial because he is "convinced that he is hopelessly and incurably insane, a condition caused by the drug marijuana to which he was addicted. It is recommended that the defendant be placed in an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life. (1:05)
addiction | cannabis | Cannabis Intoxication | insanity | inappropriate affect | insanity defense | joint | labile affect | paranoia | suicide
Morning Glory
#morningglory
Aspiring actress Eva tells playwrite Joe and producer Easton, "When I feel that I've done my best, my very best, I shall really die, by my own hand, some night at the end of the play, on the stage." (0:20)
Eva tells Joe, "Oh Joseph, I wanted to kill myself when I didn't see him or hear from him. I didn't see any reason to go on." (1:03)
suicide
Aspiring actress Eva tells playwrite Joe and producer Easton, "When I feel that I've done my best, my very best, I shall really die, by my own hand, some night at the end of the play, on the stage." (0:20)
Eva tells Joe, "Oh Joseph, I wanted to kill myself when I didn't see him or hear from him. I didn't see any reason to go on." (1:03)
suicide
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