PATCH ADAMS(1998)

Patch Adams(1998)

 

     If you are sick, How do you want to be treated by doctors? Is it about just pain and medicine? Patch Adams, who was thinking about patients’ feeling, got different ideas from normal doctors who see the patients just as the people who have only the physical problem. He thought it was the first thing to do to understand patients and make them excited. This is a real story of this weird doctor, whose name is “Patch Adams”.

     At first, he wanted to go psychiatric hospital. He lost his purpose of life. He wanted to kill himself. In the hospital, he met two awesome guys who change his life later. It was also impressed to me because there were many things I should learn. One was really crazy patient. He suffered from squirrel hallucination. He saw squirrels everywhere. His doctor forced him to stay in room and just use sedative. Patch thought he was weird, too. But staying with that patient, later “Patch” realized that he need to play with patients and listen to them. Another person who made me interesting was the super-smart and crazy old man. He messed up the hospital building and he was too noisy. He was a troublemaker. But one day, Patch visit his room and he got something. The crazy old man said. “You are focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem. Look beyond it.” And the next day, he got out of the hospital.

Thanks to this squirrel man and the crazy smart old man, I learn several things. Actually it’s more about Patch. It’s about Patch’s attitude toward them. First, after he knew those guys are weird. He was still staying with them and didn’t run away. Rather, he talked more with them and figured out how to make them happy. I think I should try to have some endurance to people who I don’t like at first. Second, the crazy man’s word hit my mind. When I have some trouble, I’m thinking all day about it; and it makes me exhausted. Like crazy man’s word, I should look beyond it.

Though there were not many special effects, CG and great song, I think it was great. It was a real story about the doctor who treated his patient truly. It was a life like a movie not a movie like a life. So I want to give two thumbs up to this movie.