Shrink

Personalmente, non credo “nell’accettazione virile dell’umana esistenza.” L’umana esistenza, comprende anche il dolore, l’accettazione virile del dolore, mi disgusta, mi nausea, mi angoscia. Se penso al dolore, con tutta la sua gamma di colori, dal nero al bianco, beh, mi vien subito da pensare al silenzio.

ANY profession whose most famous movie incarnation is a ruthless serial killer with a taste for human flesh has, I think it’s fair to say, something of an image problem. Dr. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey), the title psychiatrist of Jonas Pate’s “Shrink,” opening Friday, is by every rational standard a woeful specimen of the mental-health practitioner.

Like smog settling over Los Angeles, a creeping sense of anomie haunts the Hollywood power players and parasites sidling nervously through “Shrink,” a portrait of a disenchanted therapist to the stars and his clientele. Directed by Jonas Pate from a screenplay by Thomas Moffett, based on a story by Henry Rearden, this dissection of a soul-sick community of self-medicating actors, writers and agents [...] Vai alla recensione »

Ironically for a film revolving around psychotherapy, "Shrink" doesn't stand up to analysis. Director Jonas Pate and screenwriter Thomas Moffett have turned this strongly cast, potentially smart tale of personal intersection among a mostly rarefied group of Los Angelenos into an irritating and unconvincing slog. It's bad enough that Moffett paints his overly familiar characters with such a broad [...] Vai alla recensione »