[Neutral] The Idiot

[DayDreamer]

Here is a link to Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. It is a 2003 Russian miniseries with subtitiles available if needed. I'm just starting to watch it. It would be fun to have a date for the cinema.



He is so often mentioned while reading of epilepsy. He was actually aware of this condition, unlike so many other famous people of the past who had.....

 

[travel bug]

Ohh, cool! I'll have to check it out. I read Crime and Punishment and really loved it, so I tried reading The Idiot, but I ended up feeling like an idiot myself I kept looking back in the book to see if I had skipped a page because sometimes the characters behaved in such odd, unexplainable ways. But I would love to watch this and try again. But it depends on the co-operation of my computer which likes to misbehave when I'm watching videos.

 

[DayDreamer]

I enjoyed this period film enough, especially with the help of wikipedia's synopsis, as subtitiled movies can be difficult whether you need the words or action.

It was fun to watch a movie with the main character having epilepsy. There are parts of this character I could relate to even with so many differences of time/culture/.....

Only two times were seizures shown/heard

 

[EmilyZ]

Thanks for the link. I haven't read The Idiot yet, but I've just finished The Brothers Karamazov which is an amazing book - although the portrayal of the character with epilepsy is much less sympathetic (to say the least).

 

[Labrat]

I was wondering why you only gave it a neutral and then I realised it is a film and not the book.
Sadly, it won't play. Thankfully the book always will.