This quote is now pretty disturbing since he committed suicide in real life
shareNot only that, but we see him on that bus (great era for those charter buses, in an off topic note,late 60s) TO an INSTITUTION, of his OWN doing, DUE to that same depression.... That makes it even MORE sadly realistic now...RIP (and I was probably one of the first to hear of it at 7:00 last night..)
MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.
I know. I just watched the film for the first time today, and got chills when he said that. It's just too close to the truth... especially with the depression and checking himself into a clinic. Very good film though.
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The message I got from this movie when I first saw it was to help others. Helping others has helped me out of depression.
I don't recall this quote, but I came here to say that the scene after Monica Potter's funeral where he almost jumps off the cliff, is pretty harsh in hindsight. SOme TV channels are playing his films again as a tribute- would probably be best if they omitted Patch Adams given that scene.
share...Yes, lets ignore one aspect of his work because it might be a bit confronting. Surely that would be the best way to pay tribute to someone.
shareIn my country, many articles/bulletins on his death in the days after his death contained suicide hotline numbers. Of course a scene like that will be "confronting".
shareOf course the articles contained those numbers, that's how print media and online journalism works...Thanks for the random tangent there.
And yes, as I said, confronting. You've brought up no new points. None of that is a reason to overlook an important piece of someones work. That's just basically you saying "I felt that this was inappropriate and therefore the world should change to accommodate me."
The point on the suicide hotline numbers being listed was that the constant discussion of suicide was potentially triggering to suicidal people, i.e. could influence them to commit suicide.
It's about timing and sensitivity- an episode of 24 was pulled here the week of the 7/7 bombings. Or the removal of the line "they put all the jerks in tower 1" from the Simpsons episode in New York since 9/11. All in the name of avoiding bad taste.
So it would have been a mistake for this movie to have been shown immediately after his death, even if his character "only" considered it. As I said it would be bad taste.
If a movie about overcoming inner demons and focusing on the positives of life will trigger people to kill themselves because a guy contemplates suicide for 15 seconds...I think those people never stood a chance to begin with.
But you do make a valid point, I sometimes forget how over-sensitive everyone can be and how we love to pander to idiots.
If you've ever seen What Dreams May Come, that is also a rough film to watch after his death. I did read though that he was happy to work on the film because of how he connected with it, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of his movies have themes like this because it was something he felt he could relate to.
Honestly, there are alot of scenes that have a different context now that he is gone. Another is one of the court room scenes in Mrs Doubtfire when he breaks down over losing his kids. The emotion and pain on his face when he talks about how upset he is really kicked me in the gut.