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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