@@JC-MindsEye-777 yes.. and not get too deep I find our bodie does things or NOT does things like bad habits. Because there’s a mental and even more a spiritual shift. And our body’s end up doing thing we’re not noticing is different from are past habit
If Melvin is the embodiment of OCD, Carol is Anxiety and Simon is Depression. And they help each other through it. Love when a movie has so few characters that the main characters/actors get a chance to go this deep.
Yeah, that's exactly how a New Yorker would have said it. Even though Simon is gay, you could tell he lives in NYC. That's why I like this movie. Everything about "As Good As It Gets" has that characteristic New York trait.
"The best thing you have going for yourself is your willingness to humiliate yourself!" That's gotta be one of the most CHOICE humorous lines ever written!!
It's actually a genius line because it can be applied to lots of things. I use it to describe political commentators. Constantly whining and complaining and finger-pointing (describing the water) but never offering a solution to the problem. Another huge favorite quote is from "Kelly's Heroes". The only movie I know where a female doesn't have a speaking part. Guys only. WW2 flick. Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles. They're on a mission to knock off a bank behind German lines., They fight their way to the town where the bank is at, stuffed full of gold. Unfortunately, the bank is guarded by a Tiger tank. The Nazi tank commander is played by Karl-Otto Alberty. They don't have the weapons to eliminate the tank. They're brainstorming the situation when Don Rickles says, "have you tried making a deal with the guy?" Telly Savalas says, "deal? What kind of deal?" And Rickles says, "a deal, deal! Maybe the guy's a Republican!" That line just puts me on the floor. So the Nazi agrees to the deal and blows the doors off the bank. He gets an equal share of the gold. About $14 million in today's money.
I love the character development of both actors when both of their lives get turned upside down. Melvin is forced to become more open and sensitive and Simon toughens up and starts standing up for himself.
You won't get anything like this anymore.This movie was years beyond when it was made, and years beyond ever since. It breaks all norms in both past, present, and future.
I’ve probably watched this movie at least 25 times,the genius of Jack Nicholson,and Helen Hunt is extrodnary ,so was Kinneer ,they both deserved the Oscars for this .
Throughout this entire movie, you see his fear and uncertainty, and doubt all over his face at every moment - but at the same time you see his sarcastic nature come out to try and defend himself. The only place he can’t use it is in trying to win the woman he loves. Doesn’t work with her. I love this movie.
The script supervisor or a substitute reads the lines off camera in this situation in Wrath of Khan Ricardo Montalbán delivered his lines to the script girl
I’m my view one of the best movies ever made.Among many excellent qualities the acting by Nicholson, Hunt( one of my all time favorite actresses)and Kinnear was just superb.
Never took this movie serious when I first saw it - interesting, quirky with a nice ending. Watched it again recently, the depth of each character is astounding and an embodiment of the most common personality traits; anxiety, nervousness and depression.
I adore this movie so much. Melvin does make me cringe, often, but I find it's such a delightfully earnest film about different kinds of love. I really just love it so much.
"Okay if I say something now?" "Go ahead" "I should have danced with you" "[God Damnit... he said the right thing] good night... good night." Melvin is clutch af! He snatches victory from the jaws of defeat like 5 times in this movie!
Care for irony? Talk about a best-selling Romantic novelist who doesn't have a clue about women. This scene takes it home for me. Good to see a change in Melvin.
Jack Nicholson is such a great actor! OCD and mental health issues are no laughing matter!!! Mayne Melvin had a covert narcissistic abusive mother or father? Maybe he was locked in a closet all day as a kid and starved, child abuse is condoned in America and CPS are just as evil. Melvin's character is complex and being alone for a long time can change a man profoundly!. Remember kindness
True. I speak as someone who was hospitalised with OCD 30 years ago. I wanted to go asleep and not wake up. Fear of harming rather than fear of germs. CBT and the love of family and friends helped me confront and beat the disorder. Am now living a normal life but acute ocd is a living death imo.
All experience fear, managed fear protects, unmanaged fear traps. Traps Melvin, the pills is key to his trap, leaving the door is symbolic. Don’t fear taking a pill if feel trapped.
