Psychiatrists suicide scene?
What's the relevance of the psychiatrist character trying to commit suicide at the beginning with the gun, please?
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long time since I read the book, but I'm pretty sure he just wants to kill himself...
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well he just used his "gift" to mess up his patients mind even more.. he could be feeling guilty, and late in the book/movie they talk about his depression...
shareOkay well he wasn't really depicted as a depressed character throughout the entire film. I didn't think the scene with the patient was really enough to be a catalyst either but there you go. I havent read the book but I'm told it translates much better.
Thanks very much you two :-)
I think its because this "gift" that they share has made them lonely people. at the beginning of the movie you see that bever is alone drinking, pete trying like hell to impress some chick who he just freaks out and henry wanting to die. the only one of them that has a relationship is jonsey. having this bond with each other must be great but look at "normal" people, most times they are not as accepting of these types of things. i would think to be that old and not have kids or a wife would make me depressed as hell. thats my thoughts on it anyway.
sharehey yeah, could be right - in particular with emphasis on that keys scene with one og the guys. Cheers lvmymovies.
shareIn the book, the psychiatrist finds this particular patient to be a complete pain in the ass, so he uses his powers to read the patients thoughts to get rid of him...his deepest most private and depressing thoughts.... And then he confronts his patient with those thoughts...the patient runs out, never comes back, and a few weeks later, or months or whatever, I can't remember, the psychiatrist sees his former patients obituary in the newspaper...and feels as if he drove him to commit suicide... Basically he did everything a psychiatrist is not supposed to do, and he felt guilty as hell afterwards.
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I guess this part didn't bother me as much as other people because I've felt crappy enough to almost do such a terrible thing. I've never gone that far with it, but to see someone else try...well you just don't know what they've been through, or are going through.
shareI think in the book as well that he had reached the point where he planned to kill himself before the year was out or something like that.
shareSuicide is disturbing, for many reasons.
The imagined possibilities of the relentless and inescapable physical and/or psychological torment that would drive a person to need to escape in this way.
What kind of pain have they endured to make them do this?
We can communicate some possibilities but the empty space left for the imagination is the most frightening.
Suicide often evokes in me a sense of being trapped in a terrible hellish condition.
The starkness and bleakness of it and the way it was carried out in this movie set an effective tone.
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I got the impression that this was not the first time his powers got in the way of him helping and so he was tired of having them and wanted to die.
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