Beginners

#beginnersmovie

Artist Oliver pours his deceased father's pills in the toilet. (0:02)

Oliver tells us, referring to his father Hal, "He saw a therapist for the first time." (0:06)

Oliver tells Hal in the hospital, "You're very high on drugs." (0:08)

A fellow partier tells Oliver, "Oh you're being a therapist, Freud."
"Do you need analysis?" (0:14)

Oliver tells his friend Anna, "My father died two months ago." (0:22)

Oliver's mother Georgia tells him, "It's called catharsis." (0:31)

Oliver's caption for a sketch: "First gay man diagnosed as mentally ill." (0:41)

Oliver reads to Anna about Monica Lake, "She struggled with mental illness and alcoholism." (0:45)

Oliver tells Hal, reorganizing books in the middle of the night, "The prednisone makes you crazy." (0:47)

Oliver tells Anna, "My father lay down on a couch like this and told a psychiatrist all his problems in 1955. The doctor told him that homosexuality was a mental illness, but it could be cured." (0:49)

Anna mimics her own father to Oliver, "I can't stop thinking about it... killing myself" (0:56)

Hal recieves last rites before he dies. Oliver grieves. He reviews what you do when a parent dies. (1:32)

Bereavement | catharsis | psychiatrist | Sigmund Freud | suicide

Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent 2010