When we talk about what we expect from a film the answer quickly comes to our mind : We want entertainment , culture...etc.. That's one of these films.... Where is the culture on this one? Well I'd say that this is the best film I've ever seen on psychoanalysis... it describes the ways of transference... the false love....all the projections...identifications...and shows how a man can get confused by a treatment...how can a psychiatrist change the life of a sick man.....and how a sick man can change the life of a doctor.. SPOILER ALERT The film describes how dangerous is the use of psychoanalysis cause its dynamics and the love that is produced on the treatment can get a person killed... That's the way this movie works... the sick man in love for the doctor (who is sick too!) does everything to get his attention...and the doctor afraid of him ends by killing the sick man and taking his place to pretend that he's not dead! great movie!
Review of Passage à l'acte
Passage à l'acte
(1996)
One of the best films about psychoanalysis
25 October 2000
Warning: Spoilers