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As a chiropractor, I can tell that somebody was on the inside of this profession pulling together many idiosyncrasies that are unique to chiropractic. It's pretty common stereotype that when chiropractors are doing an internship at another doctors office, the new doc gets abused, and will start to hand out his cards to the old doc's patients right before he moves down the street to open his own practice. They hit the nail on the head there. It's funny when the naked man tells his pharmacist dad that half of his drugs are placebo and the other half are borderline narcotics!

Also funny is the opening sequence where he is performing a miracle cure. The patient is getting unbuckled from various harnesses. He straightens her lumbar and thoracic spine out, then cut to the scene where you are looking at the ceiling through the patient's blurry eyes. You see the blurry ceiling move from side to side, then *crack*. The ceiling appears a little more clear. It moves again from side to side. *crack*. The patient's vision is restored! Classic chiropractic.

Funny.

The Naked Man: The Dark Side of Our Existence
This film was recommended to me by a friend who's opinion I value and therefore I watched the film with him. This film is interesting if you look into it, but a lot of people probably aren't digging into the psychological aspects of this movie. I found the scenes with the disabled to be particularly funny because they were handled a lot differently than most films that portray the handicapped. A lot of people have misconceptions about handicapped people and most movies just feed that ignorance to the point where the ignorance becomes mainstream thought - in the same manner that our minds were tainted against African Americans, the Japanese (during WWII), or Latin Americans today. But this film goes against the grain of pop culture and makes fun of our misconceptions and prejudices. It exposes our ludicrous thinking that we can understand the disabled just by watching movies about their situations. Well . . . perhaps we can by watching more movies made in this style.

On top of that, it is a very interesting movie to watch and hilariously (and sometimes quite badly - to the point of almost laughing at itself) using the Naked Man as a symbol for modern prejudice. It's overdone, but I believe that was their intention - so it can be pulled off.

All in all - the ultimate mark of a movie is whether you would watch it again or not. I would have to say I would, if only to bring myself possibly a little closer to understanding my own faults and exposing my own prejudices - wherever they may lie.

Screwball black comedy
The Naked Man definitely has a Coen-esque flavor, but it's more darkly humorous than, say, Raising Arizona. It starts off slow but about an hour into the movie when "The Naked Man" has gone nuts, you may begin to wonder if Terry Gilliam just took over the directing chores or if this is some bizarre dark side track in The World According to Garp.

Highly recommended if you like your comedy weird and with a body count. But on the other hand if you're expecting "The Wedding Singer" you'll be left scratching your head.