The Bachelors, written
and directed by Kurt Voelker
The Bachelors is an interesting,
if not spectacular film.
To begin with, we have the always-solid
performances of Oscar- winner J. K. Simmons and Julie Delpy.
The latter was outstanding in both Before
Sunrise and Before Sunset, where she was the perfect romantic hero.
Furthermore, she was twice nominated for an
Academy Award for her contribution as writer for the screenplay of both
aforementioned, sophisticated, accomplished, entertaining films that are on…
The New York Times’ Best 1,000
Movies Ever Made:
J. K. Simmons is Bill Palet, a mathematics
teacher that is recovering after his wife’s death, with a fresh start…
Actually, for most of the film
he is just mourning and not recuperating.
The teacher has a breakdown and he has to see
an analyst in order to move along and cope with the trauma.
Coping with Adversity and Trauma is hard.
However, there are two options after encountering
a disturbing experience:
1.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
2.
Post Traumatic Growth
There are situations wherein one can have the
chance to Grow, after a trauma, understating the deep meaning of life.
Valuing life more, realizing that the deceased
would want one to live life to the full can help and change it all.
One such example comes from the real life of
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who was sentenced to death for revolutionary activities.
He has three minutes left as he faces the
execution squad and he divides them into three parts.
The first minute he would say good-bye to
family and friends
Second minute will go to passing life,
experiences, extraordinary moments, glorious days before him…
And the last, third minute will be reserved to
enjoy, probably with maximum intensity, a ray of sunshine on a church roof nearby.
The genius writer is pardoned before the last
minute and he lives to share with his readers this vision.
The last moments on earth of a man sentence4d
to death are depicted in Crime and Punishment and some of the other exhilarating
novels of this magician who saw death with his own eyes.
Bill Palet has a son, who, although a teenager,
is coping better with the loss of his mother and even tries to help his parent.
Carine is a colleague that should make Bill
move on, for she is attractive, intelligent and interested in the math teacher.
However, Bill is too depressed to survive.
As his analyst explains, his mental suffering
was too much and it transferred on to the body, causing a collapse.
The psychiatrist has treatment that is more
serious in mind, after the initial Lexapro pills that did not work in this
case.
One is even reminded on One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest, where patients had to suffer electric shocks.
Only in this day and age, these methods are allegedly
much more advanced and they may help the patient.
Wes is told by his teacher, Carine aka Julie
Delpy, to help a troubled girl, beautiful Lacy Westman.
They have at first a rather cold rapport,
because the girl has apparently been hurt before and she is mistrustful.
“All’s Well That Ends
Well?
Perhaps…
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