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Do you use films as therapy?
Front-Ranger:
My 100% guaranteed therapeutic film is My Brilliant Career with Judy Davis.
Front-Ranger:
Lately my most therapeutic viewing tools are Sherlock and Local Hero. The latter movie reminds me of Brigadoon...it's about a mystical place in Scotland that restores your soul.
Brown Eyes:
Wow! This is such an old thread! Thanks for bumping it Lee.
Brokeback Mountain, the Tipping the Velvet BBC mini-series and the movies of Maurice and Mrs. Dalloway are the four movies that have counted as therapy for me in my life. It's very rare for a movie to hit me as hard as BBM did. I remember watchingMaurice a million times in my college years.
For me music is my therapy by a factor of maybe 100x compared to films. It's much easier for music to get to me emotionally.
I've realized just the past couple days, that I think a lot of my recent musical nostalgia comes from the fact that a lot of the music I've gravitated to again lately is the exact same stuff that I was listening to to get me through my dissertation. And, since I've been writing intensively again for work... it's kind of what I've needed.
Monika:
I use fiction in general as therapy and as an escape.
Regarding movies; the movie I remember having the biggest impact on me besides BBM was a small-budget movie called Pump Up the Volume starring Christian Slater as Mark. I used to identify with Mark when I was younger.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuhHPQxS2nQ[/youtube]
CellarDweller:
I rarely go to see movies, and to be honest, it's a miracle I saw Brokeback in the first place.
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