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| Scanners (1981) |
Rehabilitation through art is how it was described by Dr. Paul Ruth (McGoohan) to Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack). Benjamin Pierce (Robert Silverman) tried to kill his family and needed an outlet to release the madness from within. When I was a child, this scene never left me. To see madness--to see the nightmares of the disturbed mind--artistically sculpted in form, left quite an impression that I never forgot. It is just a momentary part of the film's whole but enough to press home the effects that come with the scanner ability. If you don't deal with the effects in some sort of creative or healthy way, then suicide or destruction (Darryl Revok (Ironside) such an example) can result.
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