whoiskevinjones What happens when you watch Safe (1998) and you identify with Carol White?To many observers Carol's condition must seem unimaginable. But to someone dealing with deep depression and anxiety this portrayal hits very close to home. The only salvation provided is that when everything is stripped away the self remains. For many that may sound incomprehensible but for Carol and myself, the finding of self is the only chance at salvation.Watch and see how closely you empathize with Carol. Like me, you may want to watch it alone and keep an open mind.

gavin6942 An affluent and unexceptional homemaker (Julianne Moore) in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.Although much of the film is not noteworthy for its cinematography beyond the coloring (lots of green), there is one scene that features the most terrifying process of getting a perm... almost as terrifying as Haynes' obsession with AIDS."Safe" was voted the best film of the 1990s in the 1999 Village Voice Film Poll, though it does not seem to have gained the same reputation from general audiences. IMDb rates it a bit low, as does Rotten Tomatoes, and the awards overlooked the film. Jessica Harper appears as Joyce, and that makes the film worth seeing whether or not it has awards.At times the film seems like a subtle attack on Scientology, not unlike "The Master"... and yet, the film also seems sincere. Maybe there is something to be said about making life simple, avoiding chemicals, and other things... maybe.

Wild Wander One of the greatest film I've seen for the past few years about the acceptance of oneself. I'm not sure the question is to know whether she has aids. As edorapetrafiesa perfectly said in lower discussion, she became to be allergic to the whole world. And even more to herself. I guess she couldn't stand the person her entourage asked her to become. Her lack of self confidence from a long time coming from former failed relationship (this is not her child implying that regarding her age, it's not her first husband neither) + her desire to control the least detail of her life and you have a perfect cocktail of burn out and depression. No doubt anyway this movie is about Aids and the way the illness was perceived in the eighties. A perfect mirror movie to understand why and how sometimes we locked ourselves into social plays and the consequences for those who don't master the rules (personnally I haven't :)

PWNYCNY This movie dramatizes the plight of the hypochondriac, a person who sincerely believes that he or she is physically ill although all empirical evidence indicates the exact opposite. A person has a cough, or a headache or some other somatic problem yet a physically examination reveals no problem. What is a person to think or do? Okay, then is it the environment that is making the person sick? That leads to more frustration as those in charge of the environment claim that everything is fine, that nobody else is getting sick, only that one person, so therefore the problem must be psychological. By this time the person is frantic, can no longer function and then really becomes mentally ill. This is the theme of this movie. How is one to cope in an increasingly polluted environment that literally makes you sick but nobody really believes that you are really sick?What is one to do when they sick, really sick, yet there is no empirical evidence to suggest the presence of a health problem? Is it all merely psychosomatic? That is, is just in one's head? That is is the them of this provocative movie. Our environment is filled with thousands of chemicals the exposure to which cannot be avoided. Yet what is one to do when exposure to these chemicals effects one's health? How can one effectively cope? As movie so effectively shows, there are few if any viable options. For instance, what are you to do when at the workplace you have an adverse reaction to the chemicals in a detergent used to mop the floors? Stop working? Go home? Quit the job? Complain? Stop breathing? And then there is the question of whether you may be overreacting or is a hypochondriac. This movie dramatizes the plight of those who become sick as a result of exposure to chemicals.