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Zelig's drawing of the arrows

posted 9 years ago by snelling
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About halfway through the movie when Dr Fletcher is still helping to cure Zelig, they show Zelig with a drawing pad and he turns it to show the audience and it's six arrows pointing in all sorts of directions. I wish I knew what it means.

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[–] decoy000 8 years ago

it's a psychoanalysis exercise, which he did wrong.
you'll also note his hand is often up in the air while he is under hypnosis, that's because they often do a "your hand feels light like a balloon it floats up and up" thing to confirm the subject is in a trance.