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Release Date: 24 September, 2002 Retail Price: $26.98 OUR Price: $19.99 You SAVE: $6.99! Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
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As ayoung man, (1967)I worked as an Orderly in a hosp and did work on a Psych ward, many people in our America need this care and attention. They are not "bugs" but some little thing can be skewed.
this pales by comparison with the novel
This is one of the great stories of the beat generation / acid rock generation. The theme - the revolutionary fighting against injustice - are splendidly 60sish, naive in a way, but also extraordinarily vivid. Of course, it is the characters who really make this, in Chief (the extraordinarily sensitive narrator of the novel) and of course, the hero. But there are scores of others, so funny and tragic and human.
Oddly, I was really disappointed by this film. It simply did not get the depth of the characters, in partic the chief, who is just weird and whose behavior is incomprehensible when he escapes. Moreover, Murphy in Nicolson, was more a simple macho type hero, and had little of the self-serving ambiguity, the self-defeating aner, and yet with the surprising empathy from the novel - it just isn't anywhere near as nuanced a performance as he gave in say, 5 easy pieces or the last detail.
I know I will be in the minority here, but really, read the novel. Its complexity and the beauty of its prose make the shortcut of a film virtually impossible in my opinion. This just doesn't make it. It is too hollywood and neatly packaged, too rowdy when it should have been sad, and lacking the sparkling inner life and insights of the chief. This film is mostly about caricatures.
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