Adam Resurrected

I disagree completely. I watched this twice recently. The first time through is kinda rough because it's based somewhat in the surreal. It's hard to understand things. But on the second time through you already know what's going on and you can really appreciate it more.

Unfortunately, Dreary Louse seems like he didn't really watch the movie.

Adam was a Jewish performer in his Adam Circus, where he'd tell jokes, do tricks, and play music to entertain people along with his wife and daughters. We see how eventually his audience becomes dominated by Nazis. Then one day he's confronted by them. They shoot his fucking bear and send him and his family to a concentration camp because he was told to only have Nazis at his shows. He's not political, so he had his show open to everyone since everyone loves the circus. Willem Dafoe is a Commandant who is depressed by the Holocaust and keeps Adam as a dog to entertain himself. Adam thinks that doing this will lead to his family being freed. Of course....that doesn't end well. He's been in and out of the mental institute for years because he keeps choking bitches. When he returns to the institute, he finds a boy who acts like a dog there. He thinks the boy is the only one who could ever understand him, since they are both dogs. However as the boy gets better, Adam lashes out at the boy's growing humanity and eventually has to come to terms with his own demons.

Goldblum isn't a messiah OR psychiatrist. If you listen to Willem Dafoe talking about his background, Adam specialized in the somatic phenomenon. Like psychosomatic. His doctors remark that his mind has such control over his body that he can make himself bleed from anywhere, make his heart stop, and once they swear he coughed up a piece of his lung. Then later in the movie it's clarified by his doc that Adam does these things to punish himself out of guilt for something. Later we find out truly why, and how he ended up at the mental institution. The whole messiah thing was from one of the crazy women there who thought he was because....well she's fucking crazy, what do you want?

He doesn't act like a dog to fuck one of the nurses. He makes HER act like a dog and then he fucks her. Because she's a hot but troubled woman and he was messed up by the Commandant. There's also a subtle hint that I didn't pick up until the second viewing that since she's a strict by the rules person, like Dafoe, it's sorta like he's giving him the finger by making her into a dog.

Goldblum does really decent acting and it's definitely not as lighthearted as Louse makes it seem. I mean yeah, he's a performer, so while he's in institute he is pretty light and humorous. Though all the flashback scenes, and many institution scenes, are as serious as you'd expect. Near the end, it's sort've explained why he's so lighthearted in the institute compared to before. The fucked up or tragic moments in the movie are appropriately handled though. Howard Stern said it seriously affected him when he watched it and he just felt horrible afterwards.

"A Nazi materializes in a campfire and hands Stein a pistol to commit suicide! But he doesn't, because he wants to become sane, though being crazy is more fun! The film ends with a voice over saying this after that scene."

Not really. He just says that after facing his demons, sanity is peace...though it may never have it's exciting highs, it doesn't have it's crushing lows. One isn't necessarily better than the other.

So I don't think it's terrible because of the great performances and depth of the story, but I do think it could use a re-edit to make it easier to understand. Maybe it's just me though. I don't know. I like weird Goldblum movies *shrug*

I like weird Goldblum movies too

sounds like a trip of a flick anyway. I am curious now and shall have to seek it out