The psychiatrist gets owned

I have watched this movie several times and one of the aspects I particularly enjoy is the way Max treats Turturro’s character (Dr. Perlman). This psychiatrist is nothing but self-righteous and condescending from the word go. Max tells him to get him another drink on the plane, he slaps him in the face at his house, and my favorite: when the psychiatrist says to Max that “you think I’m a fraud, don’t you”, Max’s response “Doctor, in the three months since we flew together in LA, I haven’t thought about you at all.” ZING – POW! That hurts doesn’t it? It must be hard to accept that all humans are not robots that will fall into specific categories of behavior. It must be hard to accept that maybe he is wrong.