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...embarks on a pilgrimage, resolved to restore Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to her erstwhile position. He hardly even concerns himself with the twenty years which have passed since she last was in residence at Darlington Hall, and in a series of rather Freudian slips, seems to continually forget that she is married, and now "Mrs. Benn". He journeys towards her psychologically as well as physically throughout the film, recalling his interactions with her when she was indeed housekeeper at Darlington Hall, as he gradually approaches her current home in the West Country. The relationship...
...similarly shameful for an undergraduate to rush to a professor's defense with a contradictory blend of Christian moralism and confused Freudian psychology? No. It is pathetic...
...course the sexual undertones range from subtle to blatant--to have time alone with Humbert, Charlotte Haze sends Lolita to Camp Climax, of all places. And Nabokov's narrative treats such themes as the role of the writer and the distinction between art and life, Freudian repression, myopia and the American obsession with the European Romantic...
McEwan fleshes out this skeletal scenario with a hearty dose of psychobabble. Freudian guilt complexes, Buddhist cycles of reincarnation and wells of spiritual self-empowerment roam the script untamed. But eclectic psychodramatic conceits are no substitute for substance...
Instead of being humorous, though, the play simply rolls on with repeated laughs that aren't funny the fifth time. The play is loaded with Freudian humor and innuendo that should only be taken in small doses. Although the actors' performances are better than the script merits, the troupe seemed to have lost the enthusiasm it had when it performed "Baby With the Bathwater" just a few weeks...