Cronenberg first short-movie. It is pretty enjoyable, only seven minutes, and looks like an exercise, a simple one, but good enough I dare to say.
You could say the whole movie has a pretty good atmosphere, by the chosen location, the sound recording seems noisy, but for the seven minutes, it gives some layer to the surroundings, although most likely the movie just had bad sound recording.
The story it is about a psychoanalyst that leaves all his patients and hides himself into a open, snowy, dreary field. One of his patients goes after him, when all the others found other doctors.
The encounter and their conversation feels more like a Monty Python sketch, and it feels more like it was an exercise of dialogue and a way to discuss the ideas Cronenberg was trying to think about at the time, which totally relate to his later body of work.
He sets two important ideas, the first one, is related with communication, the title of the movie reinforces that, the conflict it is on that movement, of trying to relate with others, and to try to speak out, to express yourself.
But this desire has consequences, which the psychoanalyst is not prepared to go through anymore, he says, an analyst has to dip his finger into the murky, forbidding, scrummy aquarium of the sick mind, Ralph!
In the end, Ralph and the Doctor talk about their definition about time in the subconscious, reinforcing even more the antagonism of the two characters, and showing that in his first work he was already exploring and trying to understand the unconscious and the human mind.
When he goes back to Jung and Freud in Dangerous Method, he is back where he is started in 1966.
You could say the whole movie has a pretty good atmosphere, by the chosen location, the sound recording seems noisy, but for the seven minutes, it gives some layer to the surroundings, although most likely the movie just had bad sound recording.
The story it is about a psychoanalyst that leaves all his patients and hides himself into a open, snowy, dreary field. One of his patients goes after him, when all the others found other doctors.
The encounter and their conversation feels more like a Monty Python sketch, and it feels more like it was an exercise of dialogue and a way to discuss the ideas Cronenberg was trying to think about at the time, which totally relate to his later body of work.
He sets two important ideas, the first one, is related with communication, the title of the movie reinforces that, the conflict it is on that movement, of trying to relate with others, and to try to speak out, to express yourself.
But this desire has consequences, which the psychoanalyst is not prepared to go through anymore, he says, an analyst has to dip his finger into the murky, forbidding, scrummy aquarium of the sick mind, Ralph!
In the end, Ralph and the Doctor talk about their definition about time in the subconscious, reinforcing even more the antagonism of the two characters, and showing that in his first work he was already exploring and trying to understand the unconscious and the human mind.
When he goes back to Jung and Freud in Dangerous Method, he is back where he is started in 1966.
