Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes something like this. Boy (aforementioned thoughtful hunk) meets girl (aforementioned betrothed, also brainy knock-out). Sex, love and marriage ensue. He begins spending time in an isolation tank (a dark and clam vault of salt water). Intrigued by initial effects, he wants to explore further. So he ventures (reasons unexplained) to Mexico, where he visits a tribe that drinks a special potion during ceremonies. He tries potion. "Genetic regression" ensues...
...idea of "genetic regression"--that man somehow can move backward in evolutionary history, eventually reaching the moment of creation--consumes Eddie for the rest of the film. He brings the Joy Juice back to Harvard Medical School, continues to chug it, and wreaks havoc on his tank, his marriage and the Boston...
...worst parts of the ending of 2001; the screenwriter suddenly discards the rest of the movie in favor of banalities about the "power of love"; and the actor plays it all like Aeschylus, when it's more like Rod McKuen. Eddie Jessup calls his last tango in the tank "the most supremely satisfying moment in my life." Still a young man, poor Eddie may have better days ahead...
Lilly, however, was primarily interested in using the tank-sometimes with drugs-to explore "new inner domains of thinking." By increasing buoyancy and reducing the input to the senses, the tank can indeed produce bizarre effects. But Milton Greenblatt, a pioneer in sensory deprivation research and associate director of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute, says he knows of no serious therapist who uses the tank, because it "produces symptoms rather than allaying them...
Though the tanks are easy to open from the inside, some patients do lose their sense of direction and, unable to find the door, go into a panic. Another problem is that people on drugs are likely to freak out in the tank. Daniel bars druggies, and many tank centers make customers sign a paper stating that they have taken no drugs. But even a carefully controlled tank trip can turn out to be a bummer. Daniel's TV executive, who shows up every Friday for a simple soak, had a harrowing first experience: he felt that...