Change Your Image
melissa-517-853667
Reviews
Chronesthesia (2016)
Best depiction of schizophrenia yet seen in film.
For the best depiction of schizophrenia yet seen in film, I'm giving this a 10/10. Why? Just watch it, it is accurate.
In this film, writer/director Heyden Weal shows us the inherent vulnerability created by the presence of psychotic illness, and also what is protective when a person is vulnerable. If you watched it and didn't get both of these, watch it twice. For the number of years of experience this film synthesizes and feeds to you like snacks with the movie, it is well worth the time.
In Australia this is distributed under the title "Love and Time Travel". Still a great movie under any name.
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Spoiler: Contains drugs, sex and promiscuity depicted positively
Saw this in the 1970's on New Zealand television. Lot's of pot smoking without negative consequences, drugs are depicted as mind expanding, women are sexually liberated, promiscuity is seen as kind and giving, people love with their arms wide open, and the institution of marriage gives rise to interval training (Run! Run!). There is Jewish mum NOT always acting like a stereotype. The man of his time is frequently confused by his sexist paradigms being rejected without argument, and his new friends responding firmly but with sympathy.
The colours, clothes, one-liners, dialogue, and place (New York in 1968!) makes it worth seeing. I still remember the theme song.
Now, this movie is probably sexist and embodies stereotypes that I was not able to identify at 7-10 yrs old. It seemed ahead of it's time. How does it compare to now? The cutting edge in 1968 was still ahead of the average now. Sexual liberation came early to intellectual artists in Paris (De Beauviore, and that guy she kicked about with for sex, what's his name?) and newly freed slaves under oppression often deadly in America's deep south, read Bessie Smith. Both ladies were what Jimi Hendrix lovingly called "experienced". So, let's see how far we've come: how does this movie do against modern prejudices against: women, sexual liberation, drug us, long hair and the sexual liberation of middle aged mothers?