Post by showgirl on Apr 8, 2017 4:11:03 GMT
Wasn't particularly keen to see this but during my weekend in Glasgow it was the only available non-blockbuster film and happened to be showing there a week earlier than elsewhere, so it was that or nothing.
It's about a period in the life of psychiatrist R D Laing and an experiment he conducted in treating mental illness. (Apologies to those who know more about this area if I have accidentally misrepresented the subject; please feel free to clarify.)
Some promising cast members: Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant) but unfortunately the film itself wasn't that good; probably, as so often in these cases, because it was based on fact and therefore inevitably didn't allow a very satisfactory narrative. I'd have liked to know more about many of the people depicted, their backgrounds, why they behaved as they did and what happened to them afterwards, but the film offered no clues and in fact the main impression left with me was horror at the amount of drinking and smoking shown - mainly by David Tennant. This might have been authentic and I know actors don't have to drink real alcohol when performing, but not for the first time, I worried about the damage caused to their health by the shocking amount of smoking required.
It's about a period in the life of psychiatrist R D Laing and an experiment he conducted in treating mental illness. (Apologies to those who know more about this area if I have accidentally misrepresented the subject; please feel free to clarify.)
Some promising cast members: Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant) but unfortunately the film itself wasn't that good; probably, as so often in these cases, because it was based on fact and therefore inevitably didn't allow a very satisfactory narrative. I'd have liked to know more about many of the people depicted, their backgrounds, why they behaved as they did and what happened to them afterwards, but the film offered no clues and in fact the main impression left with me was horror at the amount of drinking and smoking shown - mainly by David Tennant. This might have been authentic and I know actors don't have to drink real alcohol when performing, but not for the first time, I worried about the damage caused to their health by the shocking amount of smoking required.
