Anger Management

Ahhh, all the old Adam Sandler films are the best, and Anger Management is typically one of my all time favourites. It's got everything the young boy trying to understand the world needs -- from confronting childhood nemesis' all the way to feeling righteous anger when the people around you are clearly taking the absolute piss.

The thing with psychotherapy and psychiatrity is that everyone thinks there needs to be medication involved and that's what saves you. However, the process of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychology is at least 80% work done in real life. The best way to get a brain to learn new things is to teach it, and how do you teach it when it thinks it's okay the way it is?

When I was a young man I knew something wasn't right, but I didn't think I had to change at all, in fact a large part of me would think it was the world that was at fault. The world is my enemy, not me. And a lot of kids grow up thinking like this because it's all they know. They aren't taught patience for better rewards in the future for instance.

So you have to force change. You have to force your client or individual into a corner where the only other option is to reject the old way of life and be open to learning interesting and new ways of life -- and that can be extremely tough for anyone, which is why you will find a lot of psychiatric hospitals have anti-suicide / escape prevention because many people will find it easier to run or die than change.

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Whilst this film isn't as bleak as what I was talking about, we do see it touch on the force needed to help someone with change as Buddy Rydel moves in with Dave Buznick for 30 days in an attempt to help with his Anger Management, to which Dave thinks he has zero problems with Anger, he never gets angry.

But that's the whole point, you see. As Buddy Rydel tells Dave:

"There are two kinds of angry people in this world, Dave: explosive and implosive. Explosive is the kind of individual you see screaming at the cashier for not taking their coupons. Implosive is the cashier who remains quiet day after day and finally shoots everyone in the store."

Meaning that his anger is the most dangerous because it's supressed and ready to pop off at any given moment, and which we see at several points in the movie.

This film is well crafted. Mostly because we see a real idea of what going through Anger Management is like. A lot of people think it's downing medication and pinging your wrist when you begin to feel angry but there's so much more that actually goes into it. It's not just some stupid idea, and when done correctly can have you swapping from unjust anger, to just anger.

My favourite part was when Dave snaps and starts to exact vengeance on absolutely everyone that had been abusing him through his life -- like the last stage of his Anger Management training

This is justified Anger because these two people all the way through the film just walk all over Dave, and it's fun to see him snap and exact vengeance. They'll know not to take advantage of him from now on!

So I definitely recommend this film to anyone who likes a laugh! And like to understand people a little bit more!

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