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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Gray's Anatomy |
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The monologist Spalding Gray sits in a chair and tells us about his neurotic, event-filled life. This time (1996), he's diagnosed with "macular pucker," an eye condition that is normally corrected surgically with a "scraping." Raised a Christian Scientist but probably thoroughly agnostic, Gray remains doctor-phobic and decides to investigate alternative forms of treatment. He goes to a Native American sweat lodge, a "dietary opthalmologist" who puts him on a strict vegetarian diet, and even takes a trip to the Philippines to see a "psychic surgeon" who performs "surgery without knives." There are also story sidetrips into his mother's drinking and suicide, and a tale of the time Gray was taken for a Bowery bum and hired by Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn to do some sweeping for them. All of this may seem a bit silly and obsessive, but director Steven Soderbergh raises the stakes by including short documentary clips of other people -- real survivors of eye trauma -- who talk about nearly or actually losing their vision in various upsetting ways, and their healing processes.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Gray's Anatomy |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- deluded
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- play
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