What About Bob?
A 1991 comedy directed by Frank Oz What About Bob is based on a psychiatric patient, Bob Wiley and his new narcissistic psychologist Dr. Leo Marvin. Bob Wiley is a good guy just a little socially awkward and misguided. Bob suffers from multiple phobias; he tells Leo in his introductory interview that he has "problems". He can be quite obsessive compulsive at times, he often worries about catching diseases and has a fear of being out in public as well as having mini anxiety attacks. Leo diagnoses Bob with multiphobic personality and acute separation anxiety shortly after meeting with him. Leo let's Bob know that they will continue therapy in one month, when he returns to New York from vacation after Labor Day.
Bob can't seem to deal with the separation from his psychologist, so Leo gives Bob a book written by him called "Baby Steps". Bob takes this book everywhere he goes as a reminder for healing, but Bob just can't deal with not having someone to talk everyday.
Through a few different phone calls and some schematics (like when Bob faked his death and acted as a Private I) Bob gets Leo's vacation address and the next moment he's in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Standing in the middle of the street Bob shouts until he sees Leo. Annoyed and disturbed, Leo agrees to meet with him under one prerequisite; If they meet Bob must promise to go back to New York the following day. Waiting to meet with Leo, Bob becomes familiar with the owners of the diner who happen to hate Leo Marvin for stealing their dream home. The envious couple takes Bob to Leo's home and he arrives at the back door. Baffled, Leo tried to put things into perspective for Bob by writing him a perscription that reads "take a vacation from ...
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...nd came out of the holding a birthday cake when it all explodes. After Leo has tried to get rid of Bob time and time again he gives up. He becomes extremely ill and checks himself into the same institution he admitted Bob to. It seems a chapter in Leo's life closes and he is completely mute for some time. Until he suddenly objects to his sister and Bob getting married during their wedding. Inspired by Leo, Bob went back to school to become a psychologist and went on to write a book called Death Therapy which became a bestseller. Leo sued him for the rights. To sum up the psychological themes in this movie besides Bob being multiphobic and Leo being a narcissist, he is also very psychoanalytical. Besides Leo diagnosing Bob and saying his inner feelings were forcing him to act outside of his awareness causing irrational behavior, he named his son Sigmund.
concludes that it’s possible the murderer could have killed Bob and then put on his
When Robert reaches Bailleul and stays the first night in a hotel, he immediately passes out in his room. He wakes once wondering what time it is the remembers the watch Barbara bought him. Although it is 1:30 Robert falls back asleep. He then wakes up later wondering if he has slept through an entire day; he gets up showers and makes way for Desole, this is a housing facility for the mentally ill as well as soldiers. While taking a shower the nurses and other inmates leave the room and turn off the light. Robert senses he is not alone, and asks “who’s there?” nobody replies, but he hears the sound of someone breathing. He is then approached by what seems like four men and is raped. Before the rapists leave Robert hears them say not to take any money or that will give their identities away, revealing to Robert that it was soldiers who committed the act.
As Rob’s Dad gets to hear everything that Rob was trying to hold in, from the loss of his Mom. His Dad understands and has the same problem holding back his emotions of the loss of his wife, and how it impacts Robs
The Shinning, a horror movie that was released in 1980, featured Jack Nicholson, as a writer who is left in charge of the Overlook hotel during the winter. During this time Jack began to developed schizophrenia among many other personality and mood disorders and attempts to murder his own family. After reviewing this film it became apparent that there was a mixture of accuracy and exaggeration of the development of schizophrenia. Jack had this disorder, but also had symptoms of other personality and mood disorders. For the sake of Hollywood the film did take schizophrenia to entirely new levels. Some of this hype was generated around Jack becoming a full fledge killer. The delusions that he suffered from were undeniably crazed and did have a central theme; however, they were induced by other substances. The themes that ran strong throughout this movie were persuasion. Jack was constantly told by his delusions that he needed to take control and steer his family in his own direction. When his family urged him to leave this hotel, it only generated more hostility and anxiety, which pushed the decline of his mental health.
Gilbert realises throughout the movie that his life is going nowhere and he must break the
Bob was told by his coworker Don that he could borrow one of his tackers, Madge. Upon first meeting Madge she immediately made it clear that she was not going to help him and exclaimed, “I ain’t gonna work with no nigger!” Bob soon realizes after talking with his department superintendent, MacDougal, that he was only promoted to gain the cooperation of black workers. He becomes aware of the responsibilities he must take on in order to keep his position, however with his frustrations he begins to struggle with murderous intentions and complete collapse. Further into the chapter we see Bob continue to become frustrated when his personal belief of power becomes questioned. After winning a dice game, the whites deny his winnings and tell Bob, “You’ll take hell, you nigger bastard.” Bob immediately snaps and kicks the white man that called him a “nigger.” Bob knows that he is outnumbered and therefore cannot win the fight, however he kicks the man anyways. We see that whenever Bob’s power is threatened, he loses all self-restraint and his anger and frustration takes
The second chapter is about Lou Ann?s dilemma with her husband, Angel. This is written in omniscient limited point of view. Lou Ann and Angel have a young baby boy, Dwayne Ray. These two plots meet when Taylor responds to Lou Ann?s advertisement about a room mate, and they move in together. This gave the novel a unique introduction with two plots going on as the readers endure the suspense.
The movie begins with self-centered, materialistic Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), learning the death of his father. To settle his dad’s estate, he and his business partner/girlfriend, Susanna (Valeria Golino) travel to his home town Cincinnati. While he was hoping to inherit all of his dad’s estate, all he got was a car and a collection of rosebushes that he simply has no use for. The remaining $3 million fortune was put into a trust for an unnamed beneficiary. Charlie demands to know the identity of the beneficiary and finds out that it is a mental hospital where his long-lost autistic brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) resides with a caretaker, Dr. Bruner (Gerald R. Molen).
What About Bob was a great comedic movie of a dysfunctional and inappropriate patient-psychiatrist relationship. The movie included a large chain of events having one thing leading to another. Bob Wiley, the main character, is a patient of Dr. Leo Marvin. Bob has many phobias and disorders that cause him to constantly need an uptight Dr. Marvin. The movie starts out with another psychiatrist on the phone with Dr. Marvin to hand over his patient, Bob. After the deed was done, Dr. Marvin’s colleague had said that he was finally free. But free from what? What kind of patient had Dr. Marvin been given?
People should be recognized according to their accomplishments. If someone wins a Nobel Peace Prize or wins gold at the Olympics, then they deserve to be praised for their efforts. Nonetheless, someone who has barely accomplished anything can actually be worthy of praise also. How is this possible? If only there was such a person that could pioneer this paradoxical task. But there is. Her name is Jennifer Bobylev and she is an ordinary teenage girl. She might be overly concerned with her looks but that is normal for teenage girls. She is still in high school and has no major life accomplishments to speak of. However, her character, values, and dedication to family and friends, make her someone deserving of praise.
Living with Bob would be quite the experience because the movie makes him seem not so bad, but it would be a lot harder to live with a person who has a more realistic type of anxiety disorder. They would always be afraid to leave the house or just do normal, natural everyday things. Although, it also could be good because the house would probably be spick and span. Overall, I thought What About Bob? was perfectly amusing, and I would recommend it to almost anyone. It was also fairly clean, which made it a great, family friendly
Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a washed out, middle-aged actor doing a $2 million commercial in Tokyo, develops a strong friendship with Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) who has accompanied her new husband on another one of his posh photo shoots. Both characters find themselves in a period of uncertainty. Bob, feeling more and more estranged from his wife, relates to the woes of Charlotte as she struggles to find her own path in life, at times questioning her marriage. Their relationship sparks a mutual time-zone induced insomnia that has them bumping into each other at the hotel bar at all hours of the night. Regardless of the age difference, this relationship feels much more real to each of them, than the superficial world of whiskey commercials and celebrities into which they have fallen.
.... He interprets and realizes that there is nothing that can be done about his fathers tragic death, and therefore his grieving is lifted. Oskar uttered emotion, which in turn resulted in the loss of misery from his father’s demise.
...s the day Leo’s soul and mind started deteriorating. From then on, Leo would never be the same; his life would start to be filled with a vast loneliness as his dearest possessions and connections were lost one by one.
The movie starts off where one the characters is held at gun point. Of course we all wonder how he got there, so the narrator takes us back to where it all starts. We meet an unnamed character who has insomnia. We learn about his life and that he lives a pretty decent life. Of course, we would not have a movie if our main character was content with his life. There needs to be more conflict. Due to his insomnia, he takes up going to support groups that help people in need (i.e. men with testicular cancer, alcoholics, and dying people). He soon notices a lady named Marla Singer who is showing up at the same support groups he goes to even the one for testicular cancer. He catches onto her game simply because she shows up there. Later on he is on a business flight and meets another character named Tyler Durden who is very interesting. Our noname character gets home to find that someone has blown-up his condo, so he decides to call his “single serving friend” from the plane ride.