Guest Blogger: Reeve 1

One of my favorite movies is Patch Adams which is about a guy who goes to medical school to become a doctor but has his own way of doing things which no one seems to agree with. The reason they don’t agree with the style in which Patch goes about doing things is because the other docters’ believe that they patients are just patients and they shouldn’t interact with them besides trying to help make them better. Patch didn’t agree with that logic he believed that you should interact with the patients, get to know them, and befreind them. No matter how sad something gets he believes he can fix it with laughter and that is pretty much is main goal is to cure people or at least make their last few hours the best that he can by making them laugh and have fun. Forget the bad situation that they are in and just take their mind off the bad with good. Robin Williams and Julia Roberts are the main characters of this movie and they are deffinetly prefect people the fill the roles. Robin Williams is goofey just like Patch Adams is and so since Robin already has that natural ability to make you laugh this role was made for him. Julia Roberts seems very serious and very organized plus seems like she would follow the rules down to the T. So the character that she protrays is perfect because her character is about following the rules yet she does anything for the cause she is fighting for. The main theme of Patch Adams probably is to just have fun with life and take everything in stride even the bad thing. The that I saw both said that they didn’t care for Patch Adams and I very much disagree with them because they claimed it was horrible and didn’t teach anything well I believe that the movie teaches us that no matter how bad things get you can over come and conqure it with a smile and a positive attitude. Overall I would suggest this movie to anyone and would encourage them to watch it because it was a great movie with a great message.