{"id":50996,"date":"2020-09-03T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50996"},"modified":"2024-06-08T20:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T03:26:42","slug":"morgan-morgan-a-suitable-case-for-treatment-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50996","title":{"rendered":"Morgan!\/Morgan (A Suitable Case for Treatment) (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;One of these days they&#8217;ll be coming for me with a straight jacket.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Poster-179x270.jpg 179w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Poster.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA mentally unstable Marxist named Morgan (David Warner) tries to woo his ex-wife Leonie (Lynn Redgrave) away from her stuffy new fiance Charles (Robert Stephens) by using increasingly extreme and outlandish tactics.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Warner Films<\/li>\n<li>Karel Reisz Films<\/li>\n<li>Kidnapping<\/li>\n<li>Mental Illness<\/li>\n<li>Nonconformists<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Redgrave Films<\/li>\n<li>Winning Him\/Her Back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;seriocomedy&#8221; about a &#8220;nonconformist lead character&#8221; was &#8220;one of the major pre-Midnight Movie cult films&#8221; and discusses it at greater length in his <em>Cult Movies 2<\/em> book. He&#8217;s not a big fan of the movie, and neither am I: as he writes, it &#8220;fits into the irritating it&#8217;s-okay-to-be-crazy-in-our-insane-world subgroup&#8221; &#8212; like <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2889\"><em>King of Hearts<\/em><\/a> from the same year &#8212; &#8220;which perpetuates the notion that a character&#8217;s irresponsible actions can be condoned if he&#8217;s certifiably nuts.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Nuts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Nuts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Nuts.png 608w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Nuts-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Nuts-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Nuts-446x270.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not very hard to look &#8220;past director Karel Reisz&#8217;s deceptively charming veneer&#8221; and &#8220;see that Morgan&#8217;s fantasies and wild antics are symptomatic of impending personal disaster&#8221; &#8212; and I&#8217;m not someone who will simply &#8220;cheer Morgan&#8217;s devil-may-care behavior&#8221;, or &#8220;laugh when Morgan threatens Charles&#8221;, or &#8220;ignore Leonie&#8217;s protests&#8221;. As Peary writes, &#8220;the most important aspect of this film is not how Morgan tries to win back the woman he loved and lost, but how Leonie deals with the often pathetic advances of a man she loves but can&#8217;t be with without destroying herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peary goes on to state that the &#8220;picture has lost much of its following because stylistically it is extremely dated&#8221;; he argues we&#8217;ve &#8220;long overdosed on freeze frames, fast-speed photography, insertions of old movies, and juxtaposition of images signifying &#8216;illusion&#8217; and &#8216;reality&#8217;.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure that still holds true; but the repeated insertion of clips from <em>Tarzan Triumphs<\/em> (1943) and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=43687\"><em>King Kong<\/em> (1933)<\/a> &#8212; as well as Morgan&#8217;s imagining the world around him as a jungle &#8212; feel forced. By the time things get fully (and tragically) ridiculous near the end of the movie, and Morgan puts on his full-body gorilla suit, it&#8217;s clear the film has gone in directions that will either resonate with viewers or not. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Gorilla.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Gorilla.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Gorilla.png 608w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Gorilla-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Gorilla-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Gorilla-446x270.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that this all played much fresher in the 1960s; but nowadays, one simply feels sad about Morgan&#8217;s untreated illness and frustrated at Redgrave for giving him such a long leash. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fine b&#038;w cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography.png 608w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography-446x270.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography2.png 608w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography2-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography2-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morgan-Cinematography2-446x270.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one unless you&#8217;re curious. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060714\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=906&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/old.bfi.org.uk\/sightandsound\/review\/5959\">BFI Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of these days they&#8217;ll be coming for me with a straight jacket.&#8221; Synopsis: A mentally unstable Marxist named Morgan (David Warner) tries to woo his ex-wife Leonie (Lynn Redgrave) away from her stuffy new fiance Charles (Robert Stephens) by using increasingly extreme and outlandish tactics. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: David Warner Films Karel Reisz Films Kidnapping Mental Illness Nonconformists Vanessa Redgrave Films Winning Him\/Her Back Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary writes that this &#8220;seriocomedy&#8221; about a &#8220;nonconformist lead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50996\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50996"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97453,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50996\/revisions\/97453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}