Review of Altered States (1980) by Jake C — 01 Jan 2019

ON SECOND WATCH:

My final film of 2018, in hopes that a lot of things will take alternative turns this year: That my dissertation will finally come together enough for a coherent abstract statement, that the state of the nation will become more just and empathetic, that my desire for knowledge will lead me to new ideas, new art, new worlds, new states of being. Earlier in the dayï¿ 1/2"unlike other "reviews" (or whatever the hell these notes to myself are), I suppose I won't talk about the movie as much as I will myself, this being a movie about ego and consciousness, after allï¿ 1/2"my wife and I had our first experience using sensory deprivation chambers, which was more my thing than hers. It wasn't quite the psychedelic, mythopoetic, hallucinatory phantasmagoria as the movie makes it out to be, but both open the psyche to itself in their own wonderful ways.