Mind Games: Discussing films in The Watcher whose characters are gradually going crazy

The Watcher podcast continues one by one to analyze the topics that directors love to explore in their works. The new episode is dedicated to films centered on the stories of people with various mental disorders and special needs. The hosts discuss the undeservedly forgotten "Jacob's Ladder" and various interpretations of "Total Recall", trying to find Soviet and post-perestroika paintings on the theme of mental illness, as well as watching the characters of Stephen King, gradually losing reason.

02:00 - about the "cheating" methods of directors who explain all mysticism in their works with fantasies or hallucinations of the protagonist.

10:24 - why it is almost impossible to find films with mentally ill protagonists in Soviet cinema.

14:16 - who was the pioneer of the theme in foreign cinema.

18:55 - about the movie "Jacob's Ladder" in 1990.

25:46 - about the film "Total Recall": what is reality in it, and what is fantasy.

30:47 - about the work of Stephen King: why Kubrick's The Shining works better than Hofström's 1408.

35:59 - a fan theory: was Jim Halsey crazy - the main character of the 1986 film "Companion Traveler".

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