Jimmy Laird, a well-off therapist working at a pristine practice somewhere in Pasadena, is frustrated. His patients complain — about their spouses, their friends, their chatty barista — and Jimmy (Jason Segel) tries to nudge them toward better choices through a healthier mindset. But for all the listening he does, they aren’t responding in kind. Jimmy’s mentor, Paul Rhoades (Harrison Ford), empathizes with his younger co-worker’s exasperation and distills what he’s going through into two simple words: “Compassion fatigue,” Paul says, and explains to Jimmy that what he’s feeling is typical. All therapists get worn down by stagnant cases, and you just have to do your best to “stay non-judgemental.”
Jimmy, just like the patients driving him mad, doesn’t listen. Instead, he becomes what Paul calls “a psychological vigilante,” and starts bossing his patients around. He brushes past boundaries, he blackmails them, and he generally tries...
Jimmy, just like the patients driving him mad, doesn’t listen. Instead, he becomes what Paul calls “a psychological vigilante,” and starts bossing his patients around. He brushes past boundaries, he blackmails them, and he generally tries...
- 1/23/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Calling his seventh album Jude was an act of reclamation for Julian Lennon. In a recent interview, the 59-year-old explained that, while 1968 song “Hey, Jude” is “a great chanting song, a favourite Beatles song”, for him it had always been “a harsh reminder of what actually happened in my life, which was that my father [John Lennon] walked out on my mother [Cynthia] and me. That was a truly, truly difficult time.” Paul McCartney wrote the ballad to comfort his bandmate’s six-year-old son (originally calling it “Hey Jules”). John, rather typically, assumed that his bandmate had written it for him, as a blessing on his new relationship with Yoko Ono. No wonder Julian finally changed his birth name – John Charles Julian Lennon – to Julian Charles John in 2020.
Emotional echoes of this complicated public history reverberate through Jude’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads. Lennon’s lyrics repeatedly circle themes of trust betrayed,...
Emotional echoes of this complicated public history reverberate through Jude’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads. Lennon’s lyrics repeatedly circle themes of trust betrayed,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
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