Summary

The article subject is about anti-Freudian revolution in film industry Author wrote that orthodox psychoanalytical approach explaining human characters by simplistic slogans have gone . He thinks that this anti-Freudian revolution is contributed to the wholesale elimination of in-depth character exploration in movies . Many examples of classic movies were used to show the main tendencies in the modern psychological drama

There are several problems is the writer address to his audience . Many of modern movies is not just that they 're much shallower than those classic studies of complex characters , but also

that they 're intentionally shallow . Some of them are deliberately shun any piercing psychological dissection of their troubled protagonists . Author wrote about the phenomena of anti- psychological movies ' which does not contain psychological dimension , about analogy between changing mode of treatment (drugs were replaced by talking cure ' in psychiatry ) and evolution of Hollywood plots . You can see that complicated personality can seem fraudulent but a stubbornly anti-psychological slant is no more satisfying . Some screenand producers took anti-psychological approach to their real-life subjects . Their movies present a bizarre oddball and do not attempt to suggest what makes him tick . They use illogic and brutal sensationalism instead Freudian supremely logical reading of the dark mysteries of human nature . Author explains avoiding psychoanalyzing unstable characters in those movies by poor ability to penetrate unconscious motivations and hidden drives

But he wrote about happy exceptions also . Some filmmakers still respect a meticulous , analytical approach to character . Author 's opinion is that movies desperately need more of this astute psychological analysis and a lot less of the gaudy pyrotechnics and glib , absurdist spectacle that pass for postmodern profundity . It seems to be main idea of this article ...