Thursday 13 December 2012

Dead Wife. Times Three.

Just watched The Fisher King directed by Terry Gilliam for the first time, starring Robin Williams.  I had a sense of deja vu.  Not because it was a Gilliam movie and it looked like 12 Monkeys.  But because Robin Williams character was again a victim of tragedy.  His wife was shot through the face by a crazy.  This of course in movie-land turns Robin Williams insane.  Then I realised I had seen this before in What Dreams May Come.  In that colourful and visually imaginative film, Robin Williams wife was killed in a car accident.  Also sending him into a spin.  Then there was Gus Van Sant's, Good Will Hunting.  Written by Jason Bourne and Ben Affleck.  I recall Robin Williams character getting very angry and upset when math prodigy Matt Damon tried to psychoanalyse this analysts dead wife.  Dead wife.  Times Three. QED.





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