Instinct Page #4

Synopsis: Nearly two years after having gone amiss in Africa, renowned anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell is caught committing a crime and subsequently imprisoned in a Florida mental institution, where aspiring psychiatrist Dr. Theo Calder takes over his important case. Dr. Powell, who has been with a group of gorillas during all that time, is not talking at all and seems to be living in a dreamworld. Very slowly, Dr. Calder manages to reach Ethan Powell and starts finding out why Ethan killed two of the poachers. Yet Theo's case is not just about why the murders have happened, but also about how Dr. Powell became the being he is in the first place. With Ethan's silence broken, Theo is introduced into a world beyond common human comprehension: The true nature of being. He learns that mankind's control of everything is a mere illusion and that the true values of existence can't be found so easily. Ethan changes Theo's view of things forever.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jon Turteltaub
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
R
Year:
1999
126 min
524 Views


not concerned with his family?

Yes, I want him back.

What do you want?

He can give me a look at man in his

primitive state... ungoverned man.

Look, I don't want you showing him

off like some madman with a club.

I'm writing an evaluation,

not some grocery-store headline.

This evaluation will be good

for your career, won't it?

Does it matter?

If I can open him up,

I might be able to help him.

Help him?

You mean,

get him out of prison?

Your father might belong

in prison. I don't know.

But I don't think anyone

belongs at Harmony Bay.

And I do need your help.

This is where he worked

when he was home.

You were there. Yes. Once.

I was just traveling through.

I showed up and surprised him.

Stayed a couple days.

He was very happy to see me

and very happy to see me go.

Who took these?

Are there any more?

I set the timer for this

one, and I took the rest.

This is my work.

Okay. Why don't you, um, just

take what you need and then go.

Dr. Theo Caulder. Second interview

with patient, Dr. Ethan Powell.

How are we today, Dr. Powell?

Dr. Powell is unresponsive.

I'm gonna ask you to identify

certain objects, Doctor.

You can speak

or write down your answer.

What is this a picture of,

Doctor?

- The patient makes no sign that he can understand.

- And this?

And this?

And this?

What is this a picture of,

Doctor?

Can you write it down?

And this?

And this?

What is this a picture of?

And this?

- Hey, leave him alone! Leave him alone!

- Goddamn it!

- I told you not to do that! Keep your distance!

- Leave the patient!

- Do not cross this line!

- Back away from my patient.

Back away from the patient!

Okay, Doctor.

It's your ass.

Your silence says, "Yes,

I'm still an animal...

"a wild, dangerous animal.

"You can beat me,

you can cage me.

"I'm not human anymore.

"I have nothing to say...

"not to some shrink across

the table, not to any guard,

not even to her."

But she still wants her father.

She wants you back.

What do you say to that?

What do you say to her?

Good-bye.

Have I made your f***ing day?

Do you wanna die?

Is that what you want?

- Uh, the patient is not responding.

- Quiet.

I'll take that as a no.

Do you want

to stay here forever?

Or do you wanna go home?

Africa? Here?

You wanna go back here?

If I cut your medication, will

you take me there with you?

- You can't cut the medication.

- Shut up!

I will not be yelled at by

some yuppie res... Dr. Murray!

I don't know you very well, but I have

the feeling that you are a tired,

incompetent bag of sh*t

who has found a place to hide.

You overmedicate these men, and you

turn your back when they're tortured.

If I'm wrong,

I deeply apologize.

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Gerald Di Pego

Gerald Di Pego was born in 1941. He is a writer and producer, known for Instinct (1999), Phenomenon (1996) and The Forgotten (2004). He has been married to Christine DiPego since 1992. He was previously married to Janet Kapsin. more…

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