Three Christs

Such talented actors, somewhat wasted in a meandering story overly loaded with clichés and melodrama. There's a compelling story somewhere underneath all the quirkiness and over-dramatic options, but it never fully surfaces. It feels too staged, even like a play, and I never fully believed that I was seeing real people other than such talented actors. The performance is still worth watching, especially that of the Three Christs, they are all brilliant in their uncharacteristic roles.

Sorry, it's far away from famous psychiatric case study The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach. Weekness of everything. A Weakness for Almost Everything

Reading how this unethical experiment was made into "major motion picture, all star cast" is nauseating. It was wrong of Rokeach to use the real men, harm them.

The complexity of the source material should not be portrayed in the "uplifting" manor that this film presents. It's honestly disgusting. Treating human beings like rats should be depicted with more nuance and subtlety, not bloated theatrics.

We convince ourselves that lines exist. We take pure abstraction for real absolutes. We have no way to base any thinking along its natural source. We reason as if it was real and as if it meant something. We do not connect ourselves to our feelings and we do not understand its expressions. We live in a world that we hardly can make sense of and defend the idea that it is truthful. Watch and listen closely to what is said and maybe it will not scare you that some things do not make sense.

Milton Rokeach was an American social psychologist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s worked in a Michigan mental institution and devised an approach to study three different men, each who claimed to be the real Jesus Christ. His approach was to put the three men together and have sessions, eliminating their contact with other patients. The movie is less of a biography and more of a dramatization of what all went on. Richard Gere is in the role of the doctor, and they changed his name to Dr. Stone. Truthfully the movie moves pretty slowly most times and I can understand that some viewers might become bored and abandon the viewing. My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library and found it worthwhile. All the actors, most very accomplished, are uniformly good in their roles. This is just a well-made movie of a curious chapter in human psychology.

Starting with a captivating title and moving on to true events about early years of psychotherapy and defying the norms, and the evolution of doctor-patient relationship. This was a lovely portrayed peace of psychiatry history. I have to commend the alpha level of acting from everybody in the movie as it was filled with emotions of success, disappointment, fear with hope and belief in one's vision. An enjoyable movie indeed

I am not familiar with the book. But as psychiatrist, I found this movie very interesting. A good movie for medical students and those intrested in the mental health's treatments.