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Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980) – A. Resnais
After an audacious
start (placing human nature in its biological context), Resnais presents three
interwoven case studies of bourgeois lives, filled with alternating success and
frustration. Then, just as audaciously, a psychologist begins to comment (using
a sort of evolutionary behaviorism), linking the action to a theory about
"need for dominance" and the likelihood of depression (or aggression)
when dominance is foiled. Lab rats demonstrate. Outmoded but intriguing.
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