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Constantin 2022-10-12 20:49:52
It seems that the mentally ill are the winners in life
I regret that I watched it so late. I just selected the WAtop3 I watched yesterday. If I choose again today, Zelig will be ranked first. When I thought this movie just said "people should be themselves", Woody Allen told me that I can't overdo it. "Do everything against others" and "Everything is...
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Zola 2022-10-07 11:48:28
sick?
Amplify social-friendly behavior into a chameleon-like change
If magnified in this form, is this behavior likely to be called a "disease"?
In the first half of watching the movie, I always sneered at those so-called "treatments" (even female doctors had the same attitude), which was actually the same...

John Buckwalter
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Leonard Zelig: I'm 12 years old. I run into a Synagogue. I ask the Rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life... But, he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me six hundred dollars for Hebrew lessons.
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Bruno Bettelheim: The question of whether Zelig was a psychotic or merely neurotic was a question that was endlessly discussed among his doctors. Now I myself felt his feelings were really not all that different from the normal, what one would call the well-adjusted, normal person, only carried to an extreme degree, to an extreme extent. I myself felt that one could really think of him as the ultimate conformist.