Gurdjieff Brazil
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Thumbsucker
USA, 2005. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Directed by Mike Mills - Writing credits: Walter Kirn (novel) Mike Mills
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— Look, Justin, there was nothing
wrong with you.
— I felt like everything was wrong with me.
— It's because we don't want to have problems.
To fix ourselves, we look for a magic solution to make us fell
better, but we don't know what we're doing.
And why is that so bad? Afterall it's all we humans can do:
guess, try, hope.
— But Justin, I just pray you don't fool your self and think
you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit.
The trick is living without an answer ...I think!
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Synopsis:
Dubbed "the King Kong of oral obsessives" by his hippie dentist,
Justin Cobb is a 16-year-old desperate to find a way to break
this embarrassing habit he has
retained since infancy. His father, a former football star,
tries to help by providing an antidotal cayenne-pepper cream and
a healthy dose of fly-fishing. His mother, who works as a nurse
helping the rich and famous sober up, seems more concerned with
a fantasy romantic relationship with TV-star Don Johnson than
with her son's problems. Hypnosis seems to work, but the problem
surfaces in other forms from drug addiction to alcoholism.
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