Movie Review: "Patch" Adams (1998)

Robin Williams, starring 'Patch Adams'.

Even though it's a decade's movie, still I was touched by it's contains.

It's about humanity and laughter that Hunter "Patch" Adams tries to bring out for the world around us.

Based on his true stories.

The real "Patch" Adams

Hunter Adams was admitted to a mental care asylum (due to attempting suicidal) which runs with madness and insanity, filling all patients with more and more suffering. But later he found himself an answer which he was looking for all the time.

The 1st part that I like:
This is when a famous innovator who was put into the asylum because people thought that he was insane. His innovative mind sent him a good theory that we should look behind our problems and see the future, instead of sad about the blockage in front of us (this is when he shows his 4 fingers around people and asks them what they see.) This is the part when he got his nickname - "Patch". By patching the innovator's leaking paper cup while having conversations with him.


If you answer it's number 4, then you are focusing on your matters. It's actually more than 4. It's 8. Just look behind the 4 fingers, there are more fingers (hallucinations), there are 4 of them, which are the solutions of your obstacles.

Simple. Just be innovative, be smart, be optimistic with your problems.

His casual suit

When he was fooling around the general hospital, he saw patients suffering from not only illness, but 'dullness' and 'despair'. Those people doesn't have the doctors' respect, giving them constant pressure and inhumane looks and talks, just like lab animals. "Patch" went to the rescue by being a voluntary hospital "clown", to entertain all the 'lack-of-fun' patients.

The 2nd part that I learned:
Respect others no matter who they are, how they are, what they are. They are still humans. Try to help when they need, even say 'Hi' should light up the rest of their days. Racism is one of the matter. But try to understand others' feelings, putting their conditions into yourself, imagining you are one of them, putting yourself into their shoes.

Even though they don't fit into your feet sometimes... LOL

Jokes aside... or maybe not.

In the end he even setup a free hospital, named Gesundheit! institute.

Patch with poverty-stricken kids

The last part when he was judged in front of the medical school counsel, courting in hundreds of people, because of 'excessive happiness'.

He said: "You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome."

I totally agreed.

He also said that human are worst than illness, because doctors treat patients like animals instead of humans. Even human, having wars and producing contamination and slowly kills the public.

In the end, he doesn't get kick out of the school, instead, he get more support from the people around him. Now, throughout the world.

Happiness' effects
(Click on the picture if can't be seen clearly)

We suppose to have a Yin & Yang, good side and evil side, balanced. And so should the world.