Negative paradigm of Post traumatic stress disorder.

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2004)

Has anyone considered the Pineapple may be a symbol of a hand grenade?
Adam Sandler is doing the work of excavating a personality crushed under a psychological trauma so heavy it continues to influence a persons thoughts and feelings years past. But in Drew's case, there is no "event" such as a grenade explosion to mark the trauma, only the same psychological "stuckness." Drew has a state of mind that is the outline of a post traumatic stress disorder, without and actual event inside her mind.
So, without being able to address an "issue", in the classic Freudian sense, to help a person to possibly be free of it, Adam must approach it again and again, on a daily basis, with out any noticeable results, until the effects of his actions build up within the subconscious enough to finally surface out to the conscious, or external world (i.e. in Drew's paintings.)
In short, love can be transmitted subconsciously, and it is nice to see this shown or explained in a film. I suspect this kind of subtle influence is a forte of both Adam and Drew, and the film is a welcome treat for those of us who handle psychological burdens. We often do not see the results of our work for years, and often times ever.
Thanks Drew and Adam.
(Also the side characters were great!)