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Originally Posted by stopdog
Really? People liked the Bill Murray character and identified with him?
I am serious - is that true? I never would have thought that and it boggles me.
Once more an alien. Not because I did not do it, but because I never imagined anyone doing it.
The thing I remember after thinking about it, is that Murray's character did the stupid things the therapist told him to do and because of his childlike literal following of the instructions and belief in them despite how ridiculous they were - it helped him = It would not have mattered what the therapist told him - it was all like holding dumbo's feather to fly. Which was the reason it was a comedy I thought.
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Maybe that's too strong a statement to say a lot of people identified with Bob in the movie. But I think people in therapy who are very anxious might see small similarities in relation to transference and what it might feel like - even though most clients would never do what Bob does (at least not without having a restraining order filed against them). Bob also accepts his therapist's theories as truth even though there's nothing very very profound in anything he says (which I think is a jab at all the pop psychology books out there that so the same thing).