Tuesday September 20, 2011

Secrets of a Soul- This was an odd movie. Not in a bad way. Okay, maybe a little bit. 'Geheimnisse Einer Seele' is kind of cool but ultimately too much for a viewing outside of educational purposes. Essentially, the movie is this guy, who ends up having this wierdy dream sequence that causes him to be afraid of knives. So he goes through a psychotherapist and the guy employs Freudian techniques to analyze his "unconscious" dreams and desires. The only really interesting part of the film is the dream sequence… which is crazy, but I'm sure you can google around and watch it. The dream bits don't make up that much of the film so you are left most of the time wondering what the dreams mean, and even though the questions from the dream analysis eventually pan out, by the end of the "months" of therapy, the answers became not good enough. I liked it from an artistic/inspirational standpoint, but as a film of plot, it is kind of hard to get into. I would recommend it, certainly, but only to the courageous. Those german expressionists mean business, so watch the film for its "unconscious" content before you look for a really "conscious" plot.



- Jeff Bassin