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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Nora's Will
#noraswill
Her ex-husband José finds Nora's lifeless body, three medicine bottles on the nightstand next to her bed. He calls their son Rubén: "Your mother took three bottles of pills." (0:07)
José tells psychiatrist Alberto, "She tried to do it fourteen times, Alberto." (0:11)
José tells Nora, "I don't want you to kill yourself."
Nora: "I won't kill myself." (0:19)
José visits the cemetery and funeral home. (0:22)
Rabbi Jacowitz tells José, "... cemetery is very conservative, and the members of its board of directors will not like hearing that she committed suicide." (0:40)
Referring to Passover, José asks Rubén, "And do you think it's a coincidence that she killed herself during these holidays?" (0:44)
Rubén's aunt Leah asks José, "But she tried to do it so many times, we can assume that that was what she really wanted, right?" (0:54)
José asks Nora, referring to young Rubén, apparently after a suicide attempt, "What did you want me to tell him, that his mother doesn't want to live?"
Nora: "I'm not doing it on purpose."
"If you want to kill yourself, do it, but not in my house in front of my son." (1:02)
Funeral service at the Jewish cemetery.
The substitute Rabbi: "Jewish law considers suicide a great offense to God. Rabbi Akiba Ben Iosef, famous talmudist from the first century, said about suicide: 'Neither bless him nor curse him. Just let him disappear."
"That's why we have assigned this special area of the cemetery -- to bury criminals and suicides." (1:04)
Rubén asks on a phone call to a cemetery, "What you mean, 'Did she commit suicide?'" (1:10)
José asks Alberto, "Or is it better to pretend you're the perfect psychiatrist? Sleep with your friend's wife and suggest that she be put into an asylum?" (1:13)
Cemetery (1:17)
José tells the Rabbi, "You also believe suicide victims don't deserve to be buried inside the cemetery?"
Rabbi: "What goes on in every person's head is a mystery that we must not judge."
Burial at the cemetery. (1:19)
How might you diagnose Nora? Did she accomplish her goals for her family and friends? What do you think she wrote in her note to José that made him smile?
Bereavement | boundaries | overdose | psychiatrist | suicide
Fernando Lujan, Ari Brickman, Enrique Arreola 2008
Her ex-husband José finds Nora's lifeless body, three medicine bottles on the nightstand next to her bed. He calls their son Rubén: "Your mother took three bottles of pills." (0:07)
José tells psychiatrist Alberto, "She tried to do it fourteen times, Alberto." (0:11)
José tells Nora, "I don't want you to kill yourself."
Nora: "I won't kill myself." (0:19)
José visits the cemetery and funeral home. (0:22)
Rabbi Jacowitz tells José, "... cemetery is very conservative, and the members of its board of directors will not like hearing that she committed suicide." (0:40)
Referring to Passover, José asks Rubén, "And do you think it's a coincidence that she killed herself during these holidays?" (0:44)
Rubén's aunt Leah asks José, "But she tried to do it so many times, we can assume that that was what she really wanted, right?" (0:54)
José asks Nora, referring to young Rubén, apparently after a suicide attempt, "What did you want me to tell him, that his mother doesn't want to live?"
Nora: "I'm not doing it on purpose."
"If you want to kill yourself, do it, but not in my house in front of my son." (1:02)
Funeral service at the Jewish cemetery.
The substitute Rabbi: "Jewish law considers suicide a great offense to God. Rabbi Akiba Ben Iosef, famous talmudist from the first century, said about suicide: 'Neither bless him nor curse him. Just let him disappear."
"That's why we have assigned this special area of the cemetery -- to bury criminals and suicides." (1:04)
Rubén asks on a phone call to a cemetery, "What you mean, 'Did she commit suicide?'" (1:10)
José asks Alberto, "Or is it better to pretend you're the perfect psychiatrist? Sleep with your friend's wife and suggest that she be put into an asylum?" (1:13)
Cemetery (1:17)
José tells the Rabbi, "You also believe suicide victims don't deserve to be buried inside the cemetery?"
Rabbi: "What goes on in every person's head is a mystery that we must not judge."
Burial at the cemetery. (1:19)
How might you diagnose Nora? Did she accomplish her goals for her family and friends? What do you think she wrote in her note to José that made him smile?
Bereavement | boundaries | overdose | psychiatrist | suicide
Fernando Lujan, Ari Brickman, Enrique Arreola 2008
Friday, March 9, 2012
From Paris with Love
#frompariswithlove | Facebook | Official site
Waxman tells the waiter, "I'm more in the mood for something you sniff off a spoon, something you buy by the kilo."
"If you really want to score some coke..."
Waxman: "Where's the blow?"
"No blow."
White powder pours from bullet holes in the ceiling.
(0:22)
Waxman tells Reece, "Next thing you know she's overdosing." (0:26)
Waxman snorts cocaine. Reese snorts cocaine. Waxman tells Reece, "This blow. That blow. It's all blow."
Reece: "Yeah, but the blow that she took gave her cardiac arrest."
Waxman: "Are you high."
"You might be feeling some side effects by now." (0:38)
Waxman tastes cocaine from a packet given him by a dealer. (0:48)
"A terrorist pulls Reece's revolver into his mouth then pulls the trigger." (0:52)
Waxman tells Reece and Caroline, "Suicide vested..." (1:02)
overdose | side effect | suicide | cocaine
John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak 2010
Waxman tells the waiter, "I'm more in the mood for something you sniff off a spoon, something you buy by the kilo."
"If you really want to score some coke..."
Waxman: "Where's the blow?"
"No blow."
White powder pours from bullet holes in the ceiling.
(0:22)
Waxman tells Reece, "Next thing you know she's overdosing." (0:26)
Waxman snorts cocaine. Reese snorts cocaine. Waxman tells Reece, "This blow. That blow. It's all blow."
Reece: "Yeah, but the blow that she took gave her cardiac arrest."
Waxman: "Are you high."
"You might be feeling some side effects by now." (0:38)
Waxman tastes cocaine from a packet given him by a dealer. (0:48)
"A terrorist pulls Reece's revolver into his mouth then pulls the trigger." (0:52)
Waxman tells Reece and Caroline, "Suicide vested..." (1:02)
overdose | side effect | suicide | cocaine
John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak 2010
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Elena and Her Men
#elenaandhermen
In a Paris bistro a man exhorts other patrons: "No more beer. Drink absinthe." As a waiter ushers the group into a meeting room Duchene of the political corps says, "Thanks my friend. Absinthe all around."
absinthe
Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard 1956
In a Paris bistro a man exhorts other patrons: "No more beer. Drink absinthe." As a waiter ushers the group into a meeting room Duchene of the political corps says, "Thanks my friend. Absinthe all around."
absinthe
Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard 1956
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Young and Innocent
#youngandinnocent
Murder victim Christine's husband manifests a facial tic. (0:02)
"Nonsense. The girl's hysterical." (0:05)
Solicitor Henry tells murder suspect Robert, "However we mustn't be too depressed about it." (0:11)
Robert tells Henry, "We mustn't be depressed on a day like this." (0:13)
Bum Old Will describes to Erica and Robert the facial tic he observed in the man who gave him the raincoat. (1:01)
We recognize the drummer as Christine's husband by his facial tic, which gradually worsens as he becomes more upset. (1:14)
As he swallows unidentified pills the drummer tells his fellow musician he must "stop this twitch." He becomes progressively sedated and unable to play until he loses consciousness. (1:17)
Despite sedation the drummer's tic persists. (1:21)
hysteria | Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Intoxication | tic | sedative-hypnotic
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont 1937
Based on the book:
Murder victim Christine's husband manifests a facial tic. (0:02)
"Nonsense. The girl's hysterical." (0:05)
Solicitor Henry tells murder suspect Robert, "However we mustn't be too depressed about it." (0:11)
Robert tells Henry, "We mustn't be depressed on a day like this." (0:13)
Bum Old Will describes to Erica and Robert the facial tic he observed in the man who gave him the raincoat. (1:01)
We recognize the drummer as Christine's husband by his facial tic, which gradually worsens as he becomes more upset. (1:14)
As he swallows unidentified pills the drummer tells his fellow musician he must "stop this twitch." He becomes progressively sedated and unable to play until he loses consciousness. (1:17)
Despite sedation the drummer's tic persists. (1:21)
hysteria | Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Intoxication | tic | sedative-hypnotic
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont 1937
Based on the book:
Monday, March 5, 2012
Moneyball
#moneyball
At a meeting a scout expresses doubt about a prospect citing "Reports about him on the weed." (0:33)
marijuana
Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman 2011
At a meeting a scout expresses doubt about a prospect citing "Reports about him on the weed." (0:33)
marijuana
Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman 2011
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Father's Little Dividend
#fatherslittledividend
Her father Stanley, referring to daughter Kay, tells Kay's mother Ellie and in-laws Doris and Herbert, "Well now that we've succeeded in reducing her to hysterics..." (0:30)
Kay's husband Buckley tells Stanley on the telephone, "Look, if anything happens to her I'll kill myself." (0:38)
Kay tells Stanley, referring to Buckley, "He just said to me if anything happened to you he'd kill himself." (0:44)
Stanley "... decided to take a sleeping pill." (0:58)
hysteria | suicide | hypnotic
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor 1951
Her father Stanley, referring to daughter Kay, tells Kay's mother Ellie and in-laws Doris and Herbert, "Well now that we've succeeded in reducing her to hysterics..." (0:30)
Kay's husband Buckley tells Stanley on the telephone, "Look, if anything happens to her I'll kill myself." (0:38)
Kay tells Stanley, referring to Buckley, "He just said to me if anything happened to you he'd kill himself." (0:44)
Stanley "... decided to take a sleeping pill." (0:58)
hysteria | suicide | hypnotic
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor 1951
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Road
@TheRoad_Movie | Facebook | Official site
Spoiler alert!
With horror always imminent, and little to hope for, the ability to choose suicide provides one of the few available comforts.
Finding several bodies hanging by the neck from rafters in a barn, the man tells his son, "They committed suicide." He then carefully explains to the boy how to kill himself with their revolver.(0:08)
The boy's mother tells the man, referring to suicide, "Other families are doing it." (0:22)
The man drops his wedding ring and a photograph of his deceased wife off a bridge. (0:30)
The boy hallucinates another boy "like me." (0:46)
The man tells his son, "If you died I'd want to die too."
"So I could be with you." (1:19)
The boy realizes his father is dead. (1:36)
The boy tells his dead father goodbye. (1:42)
Bereavement | hallucination | suicide
Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron 2009
Read the book:
Spoiler alert!
With horror always imminent, and little to hope for, the ability to choose suicide provides one of the few available comforts.
Finding several bodies hanging by the neck from rafters in a barn, the man tells his son, "They committed suicide." He then carefully explains to the boy how to kill himself with their revolver.(0:08)
The boy's mother tells the man, referring to suicide, "Other families are doing it." (0:22)
The man drops his wedding ring and a photograph of his deceased wife off a bridge. (0:30)
The boy hallucinates another boy "like me." (0:46)
The man tells his son, "If you died I'd want to die too."
"So I could be with you." (1:19)
The boy realizes his father is dead. (1:36)
The boy tells his dead father goodbye. (1:42)
Bereavement | hallucination | suicide
Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron 2009
Read the book:
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Paris: The Luminous Years
#parisluminousyears
(To appreciate Midnight in Paris even more watch this film first.)
Narrator, referring to popular spirit in Paris after World War I: "One aspect, euphoria, the urge to celebrate being alive." (1:08)
Art Historian Serge Fauchereau: "Show your unconscious." Referring to Dada and automatic writing, he says, "By opening the door to the unconscious surrealism offered stimulating new possibilities to visual artists." (1:14)
euphoria | unconscious
Concetta Tomei, Serge Fauchereau 2010
(To appreciate Midnight in Paris even more watch this film first.)
Narrator, referring to popular spirit in Paris after World War I: "One aspect, euphoria, the urge to celebrate being alive." (1:08)
Art Historian Serge Fauchereau: "Show your unconscious." Referring to Dada and automatic writing, he says, "By opening the door to the unconscious surrealism offered stimulating new possibilities to visual artists." (1:14)
euphoria | unconscious
Concetta Tomei, Serge Fauchereau 2010
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