Posted by fallsfall on November 10, 2004, at 21:24:07
In reply to Re: Go see this Marlee Matlin movie » fallsfall, posted by partlycloudy on November 10, 2004, at 11:19:20
Here are some of my thoughts...
I thought that it was excessively visually stimulating. I LIKE to look at a scene and have time to see some of the nuances - when the camera angles change every 10 seconds I spend all of my time trying to orient myself and don't have time to look.
My friend liked how essentially hopeful the movie was: we can change whatever we want to, because (toss in a quantum physics drum roll here) it is what we perceive it to be, or at the very least is influenced by our perception.
But I'm not quite ready to accept that yet. I still feel firmly planted in a world that has A (one) reality.
I liked:
Challenge assumptions (because historically we know that these assumptions tend to be false!)
There are many ways to look at the same thing - i.e. many realities (this is hard for me, see above)
Somehow seeing the connections in the brain allowed me to see why it is so hard to move past our experiences. That the process of disconnecting longstanding connections takes time and relearning. And that creating new connections also takes time and learning. I knew this, but somehow the visuals (or words?) in the movie allows it to make more sense to me. Maybe this will give me more patience with the therapy process (and allow me to see it more as a process than a "done" vs. "not done" (black and white) thing.
They articulated pretty clearly how I think about God. I thought it was a little brazen to say that the organized religions of the world were blasphemous. I maintain that different people need different images of God. It was surprising for me, however, to hear them so closely describe my image.
In therapy we are working on "What would happen if I got better?" and "What would I lose if I weren't depressed?" and "What do I gain by being depressed?". The way they described addiction works nicely: I am addicted to depression.
Also, there was something about the addictions "using up" (?) resources in the cells so that the cells don't have the capacity to get the nutrients they need. I need to see it again to understand this better.
What spoke to you?
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