Of the three brothers, Robert appears to be the only one who has been able to function in the real world. He also visits his other brother Maxon. What emerges is an exploration of the apparently abnormal family life that shaped Robert Crumb and influenced his art. Crumb talks about how Charles was obsessed with comics as a boy and this led him to drawing comics. Finally Crumb visits his apparently reclusive brother Charles who hasn’t left their Mother’s house in many years. He talks about his childhood in Philadelphia and the influences there. His first wife, and their son, are also interviewed at different points in the film Later many of his drawings are shown revealing some of the workings of his mind. He also talks about his involvement in the Adult Cartoon film Fritz The Cat.Ĭrumb’s second wife Aline Crumb is interviewed at their home in Winters, California furnishing more insight into Crumb’s life. It sold millions of copies but Crumb earned only $600 from CBS records for drawing it in 1968. Another icon is the cover for Janis Joplin’s Cheap Thrills album. Natural “Keep On Trucking” drawings that became a well-known cultural icons in the sixties. Both sisters declined to be interviewed for the film.Įarly in the film Robert does a presentation for art school students in Philadelphia where he talks and shows slides about his early successes, like the Mr. Brothers George and Maxon both seem to have mental problems that prevent normal functioning an apparent result of childhood experiences. Robert is one of five children, two girls and three boys. He mentions the influence his brother Charles had on him, but when he calls his Mother to visit her and Charles in Philadelphia, to possibly have Charles interviewed for the documentary, his Mother tells him that Charles doesn’t want to do it. I get depressed and suicidal,” Crumb says, voice over while he’s seen creating a pen and ink drawing. Crumb seems isolated in his own world. “If I don’t draw for a while I get really crazy. The lighting in the room is subjective and high contrast. The documentary opens with a slow pan across the living/working space in Crumb’s home in California, where Robert Crumb is found sitting on the floor, knees to his chest, rocking back and forth. As a documentary film, Crumb explores the gray area of erotic art, fantasy, dysfunction, and reality of Robert Crumb at one point in his life. It is an intimate portrait of a talented artist. Crumb (Robert Crumb) and his often-bizarre, at times sexually obsessed, world. It shows what you can achieve if you’re independent.Crumb looks at the life and work of R. Watch Beauty and the Beast.Depicts the female hero’s journey.Read Nietzsche’s essay: The Use and Abuse of History.Great but difficult-requires extensive knowledge of Jung’s work. Read Carl Jung’s paper: The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious.It helps you understand how people go awry-how evil is created. Read the writings of the Columbine shooters.Margaret Laurence is Peterson’s favorite female author and this is his favorite of her novels. Read The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.Read The Origin and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann (similar to Maps of Meaning, great introduction to Jung).Read Symbols of Transformation by Carl Jung (similar to Maps of Meaning).Read The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.It Covers Adler, Jung, Freud + 300 years of psychoanalytic history before Freud. The best intro to psychoanalytic tradition. Read The Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri Ellenberger.Read Panzram-the autobiography of a serial killer. Read Memories, Dreams, and Reflections.Read The History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade.Read The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz.Read The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Read Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Must read). Read Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Must read).Read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Must read).Tree of Life and Death Flanked by Eve and Mary (1489) by Berthold FurtmeyrĮvery book, movie, documentary, artwork, and essay Jordan Peterson recommended in over 100 hours of lectures and online content. Every book, movie, documentary, artwork, and essay Jordan Peterson recommended in over 100 hours of lectures and online content.
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