The fright
August 24th, 2008 by park
After my last post, I decided to give my brain a break and have just been muddling around doing as little as possible. All that stuff in your head reaches a crescendo, then it dies off for awhile. It leaves you a bit…vacant.
Then I discovered possibly one of the worlds greatest and most underrated actors giving a fantastic performance. And it scared me, how close it came to how I feel about my own issues. 1939, Germany. And even then they understood psychology as well as (and possibly better than) we do today. There was a more honest approach to the situation. I wonder sometimes if putting down the mentally unstable still wouldn’t be our best solution, as the man in this film says “you’ll escape or get a pardon. Then there you are, free on the law” a law, I might add that is there to protect you. Anyway, it’s ten minutes of Lorre at his best. Never hurts to watch the man put a bit of his soul on display.