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The Soloist. Steve Franklin, MSW, LCSW 6829 Gravois Ave St. Louis, MO 63116 [email protected] www. Steve FranklinMSW.com 314-517-8383. Introduction The Soloist Analysis Adam Crane Questions/Comments. What is this movie about?. The book (Based on his L.A. Times columns) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Steve Franklin, MSW, LCSW6829 Gravois Ave St. Louis, MO 63116
[email protected] www. Steve FranklinMSW.com
314-517-8383
The Soloist
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• Introduction• The Soloist• Analysis• Adam Crane• Questions/Comments
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What is this movie about?
• The book (Based on his L.A. Times columns)
• The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely
Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
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What is this movie about?
Is this a story about • Mental Illness• Schizophrenia• Homelessness• Friendship• Music• Newspaper business• Or ?????
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What is this movie about?
It is about Nathaniel Ayers
• Schizophrenic Musician?• Musician with Schizophrenia?• Angry, cantankerous man?• Victim of oppressive society?• Free spirit?
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What is schizophrenia?
• delusions• hallucinations• disorganized speech (e.g., frequent
derailment or incoherence)• grossly disorganized or catatonic
behavior• negative symptoms, i.e., affective
flattening, alogia, or avolition
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What is schizophrenia?
• NOT better explained by: Mood disorder, Developmental disorder (e.g. autism),Drugs, Medical condition
• Paranoid type• Catatonic Type• Disorganized type
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What is schizophrenia?
Related features---• Odd/Eccentric or Suspicious
Personality• Anxious or Fearful or Dependent
Personality• Dramatic or Erratic or Antisocial
Personality
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How important is a diagnosis?
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Is treatment for mental illness
central to the problem of homelessness?
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Los Angeles Men’s Project (LAMP)
Movie depicts their approach to serving homeless.
450 participants in homeless programs
were hired as actors and extras for the movie
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Patience
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Put yourself in the position
Of family/friends Who want to help Mr. Ayers.
• What’s right?• What’s best?• What do you think his goals should
be?
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Put yourself in Mr. Ayers’ position.
• People wanting to help you, telling what they think is best for you.
• Responding to fears, uncertainty about what/who you can trust
• What do you think your goals would be?
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“Least Restrictive Environment”
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Music
(Played by Ben Hong)"I wasn't playing as myself;
I had to play like somebody else… like three different people.“
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The Soloist
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Analysis
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What is this movie about? “…he really wanted this to be a film
not about mental illness but about faith.
He also said it was a love story,”
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The book (The “real” story)
Liberties in converting book to Film
• Steve Lopez happily married, with young daughter
• Reports no violence by Mr. Ayers• Added pressure being black at Julliard• “Recital” … at a nightclub.
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Is this a story about…..
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Mental Illness/ Schizophrenia?
• Ongoing debate, especially in the book…
• How necessary is a diagnosis?• Diagnosed “Paranoid
Schizophrenic”• Lopez tries to arrange psychiatrist
visit
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Mental Illness/ Schizophrenia?
• Lopez quotes Mark Ragins of The Village—Long Beach— • “If Nathaniel is going to get better,
it won’t be because of a correct diagnosis and textbook treatment program,
but because he develops enough trust in me and others to pursue his own
recovery.”
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Homelessness• Greater focus for Lopez• Mr. Ayers is still “sleeping inside”.
• (Mollie Lowery founded Lamp…)“to build a welcoming place
without judgment, a place where clients could be themselves in
a setting without expectation or rigid rules.
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Friendship
• Mr. Lopez comes to appreciate what he gets from the friendship
• Not just trying to fulfill obligation or rescue
• Goes to spend the night with Nathaniel…. Can’t sleep… not comfortable dozing… checks into hotel… for 2 hours
• (Mr. Ayers visits Lopez family at home)
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Music
• Mr. Ayers’ identification as a musician seems able to overpower his identity as “homeless” or “schizophrenic”
• Helps others connect with him.• Helps establish a sense of purpose• “Expression of life energy/libido”
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Newspaper business
• A fading ability to touch masses of people
• (In book, Lopez whether to continue newspaper work)
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?????
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Nathaniel Ayers
• Foxx: “he is a person who is trying to make sense of the world.”
• “I think he has figured out how to remain functional in his own way
in our society.”
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Put yourself in the position of family/friends
• Steve Lopez turned to National Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles (now MHA –LA)
• Juxtaposition: Lopez looking for Ayers; mother (?) looking for Ayers… the impact of mental illness on families.
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Put yourself in the position of family/friends
• Lopez…Once contemplates alleging violence to compel treatment (Shown in movie, thinking out loud)
• If he is “gravely disabled”, under California law, he could be subjected to forced treatments.
• Reports times when Mr. Ayers was so furious that he wondered if he could get violent
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Put yourself in Mr. Ayers’ position.
• Foxx…”They start off butting heads
because Steve wants to save this guy's life and Nathaniel doesn't
think his life needs saving.”
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Put yourself in Mr. Ayers’ position.
• “Least Restrictive Environment”• How comfortable are you with the
lifestyle of Nathaniel Ayers?
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Put yourself in Mr. Ayers’ position.
• “What’s more humane, after all? To respect someone’s civil liberties to the point of allowing them to wither away on the street, or to intercede in the interest of their own welfare.”