Psychological support Back in Benghazi, Mufteh is preparing for the first of the operations he will need.
Unlike biblical epics such as DeMille's "Ten Commandments" and George Stevens's "Greatest Story Ever Told," which add psychological back story and distracting celebrity cameos, "Jesus" presents itself as a literal adaptation.
Inexplicably, and at great risk to the integrity of the movie, the filmmakers have burdened him with a psychological back story pulled out of a folder in some studio filing cabinet.
Miami Vice is composed in a language of pure action; there is no psychological back-story, no calm-before-the-storm letup in which Crockett and Tubbs's private selves can be unrolled.
But the movie also burdens Wonka with a psychological back story and forces a redemptive father-son reconciliation onto Dahl's tale, a move A. O. Scott, writing in The Times, called "worse than lazy; it is a betrayal of a book that the filmmakers seem otherwise to have not only understood, but also honored".
The psychological back-and-forth between the piece appearing like a cube and the knowledge of the piece simply being light projected into a corner seriously messed with my faith in my senses and reality.
"As a writer I'm always interested in the psychological back story behind the surface story, and to me the journey athletes make to reach the start line of an Olympic event is even more intriguing than the act of competition itself.
It is likewise important to know the manner in which parents were informed, and whether or not psychological back-up was offered.
Bak wrote a rejoinder to the published criticisms and says there is now overwhelming evidence from psychological experiments backed by imaging studies that bilingual and monolingual brains function differently.
Other evidence in the exhibition, including his last works of art that reveal his dark psychological state, backs up the museum's belief that Van Gogh died by suicide, after a long illness that tormented him, and led the people of Arles to mob him and demand his incarceration in an asylum.
I just did three psychological thrillers back-to-back-to-back.
