Patrick McGorry as The Psych Who Laughs
Los Angeles, CA – Patrick McGorry, Australia’s darling of psychiatry, has won the best actor Oscar for his role in The Psych Who Laughs, an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, “The Man Who Laughs” and the 1928 American silent film of the same name.
In the film, released last year, McGorry plays himself as an evil psychiatrist who wears a perpetual, freak-like smiley face grin. His character, a psychiatric version of the Joker, is an intelligent psychopath with a warped, sadistic sense of humor who believes that all children are the evil spawn of the devil and must be targeted, paralyzed and destroyed with psychiatric drugs before they turn into “nuisances” and cost the state money.
Taking place in Australia, The Psych Who Laughs features McGorry, a psychopathic psychiatrist who invents a bizarre, fake theory called “early psychosis” which pretends to prognosticate mental illness before it occurs. McGorry spends his days working his “charming” self and theory into the deep, dirty pockets of like-minded politicos and pharmaceutical companies. His pig Latin motto, ug dray the ids kay, resonates throughout the film in a deep, horrifying baritone.
But while McGorry is having money thrown at him by the truckload and getting nominated as Australia’s Man of the Year, a competing psychiatrist, Marvin Dilda, who McGorry beat out of a large chunk of Eli Lilly pharmaceutical funding, decides it’s time to pull the plug on McGorry’s smoke and mirrors carnival act.
Dilda starts a rumor that McGorry has undiagnosed Asperger’s and should be in psychiatric hands himself. Dilda proves his case by demonstrating that “our little professor” McGorry has all the signs of Asperger:
- Facial “mask-like” quality
- Intense absorption in a special interest
- Lack of empathy
- One sided conversations
- Difficulty in making friends
- Significant difficulties in social interaction
- Restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests
- Atypical use of language
- Repeating phrases over and over again in a stereotyped fashion
As the Asperger rumor spreads and funding starts to dry up McGorry finds himself reversing his position about early psychosis, child drugging and saying whatever he needs to say to get people to like him. He tries to stop smiling but finds his face frozen into a perpetual, evil grin.
The film ends with a screaming McGorry being wheeled in for elctroconvulsive shock therapy by his nemesis, Dr. Marvin Dilda.
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Twisted! I love it! Nothing speaks like truth!
Erick – Welcome aboard the Evil Psych Train!
I’d pay for a ticket to see that movie. Life imitating art . . .
Although I love the satire, on par with material from The Onion, I would like to say that the pre-cog theory of diagnosis IS real. They ARE doing that and trying to spin it into our social consciousness to make it appear the norm. Oh, (big) brother . . .
And dude’s name is McGORRY?? When he writes a paper does he call it the “McGorry Details”??
The good doctor McGorry really needs to stay out of the sun however I think it’s a tad too late. I’m diagnosing him with SUN SPOTS and I’m pre-cogging him with Melanoma. I hope he knows a good dermatologist/oncologist. He obviously didn’t read the REAL medical journals that Australia has the highest rates of skin cancer on the planet.
Oh, well . . . too late now.
Karla – The whole pre-cog thing is pretty scary…isn’t it? Thank our Dear Dr. McGorry for that. And as for too late? Yes, I believe he’s on his way to shock treatment as we speak…screaming.