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Numb (2007)
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"Matthew Perry, best known as Chandler from "Friends," proves himself to be more than a broad comedic actor in "Numb," essentially an autobiography of writer/director Harris Goldberg´s fight against depersonalization. Basically, this is the feeling of not belonging in your own body, looking at the things you do and not having any emotion about them. This disorder affects not only Hudson Milbank´s (Perry) writing career-and writing partner Tom (Kevin Pollack)-but also his quest to find the one woman who will love him. Casting Perry in the lead role of a dark romance was precipitated, according to Goldberg´s commentary, by watching the actor´s guest star stints on "The West Wing." I´d argue, though, Milbank has more in common with Matt Albie from "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." For starters, there are superficial similarities between the two. Both are writers and are in recovery from one thing or another. Albie and Milbank also need to work…at le ... "
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"Matthew Perry, smoked out in Harris Goldberg's Numb By Michelle Orange From this afternoon’s random sampling one might deduce that, like slime mold, all the sad young men have picked up and headed for the water. California, to be exact. Numb, Good Time Max, and In Search of a Midnight Kiss all seemed to have a bizarre number of things in common: dysfunctional men who move to Los Angeles; mothers who are either cold bitches or fare-thee-well featherweight and fathers who are absent or oblivious; a woman who’s going to fix everything (OK, only two of them have that); and a key character reference made via masturbation (one wants to jerk off on a bunny rabbit, another to his roommate’s girlfriend and the third to a three-second snippet of porn on a loop). I’m not even sure what all of this means, but it was too obvious not to note. Especially that last one. I only know one guy in LA, and I feel like I should give him a call. Maybe I can tell him about sli ... "
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"There are movies that, in time, garner a cult following, for reasons most people can't fathom, or don't care too. This is likely to happen with Harris Goldberg's "Numb." The scant reviews emerging from the Tribeca Film Festival thus far have pointed out that the script is pretty much autobiographical, based on Harris Goldberg's own experience with something called Depersonalization, triggered by pot. Sounds like a pretty extreme and rare reaction to weed, and a pretty weak premise on which to base an entire movie, right? No. Just the opposite. Depersonalization Disorder is something quite real, and a condition that, incredibly, affects more people than either schizophrenia or bi-polar disorders. Yet few people, even relatively few health professionals have ever heard of it. It can be triggered by various forms of stess or trauma, as well as things like LSD and marijuana. The confusion, frustration and inability to deal with "normal" life ... "
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"There are movies that, in time, garner a cult following, for reasons most people can't fathom, or don't care too. This is likely to happen with Harris Goldberg's "Numb." The scant reviews emerging from the Tribeca Film Festival thus far have pointed out that the script is pretty much autobiographical, based on Harris Goldberg's own experience with something called Depersonalization, triggered by pot. Sounds like a pretty extreme and rare reaction to weed, and a pretty weak premise on which to base an entire movie, right? No. Just the opposite. Depersonalization Disorder is something quite real, and a condition that, incredibly, affects more people than either schizophrenia or bi-polar disorders. Yet few people, even relatively few health professionals have ever heard of it. It can be triggered by various forms of stess or trauma, as well as things like LSD and marijuana. The confusion, frustration and inability to deal with "normal" life ... "
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