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In this short scene, the natural wonders and beauty of North Carolina are captured extensively, at first contrasting sharply, are almost mocking AdamsвЂ™ torment. For Patch, it seemed to be a message not from God, but from his girlfriend, Carin, who had once likened herself to a caterpillar wishing to change into a butterfly. It flutters towards him and lands on his shirt. When he turns away from the view and back to his belongings, a small monarch butterfly sits on his bag.

#Patch adams best friend murdered Patch#

In this moment, Patch stands and looks across the rolling green hills of the valley below to a vast waterfall on the mountainside and waits for an answer. вЂњYou know what? You're not worth it.вЂќ (Shadyac, 1998) Maybe you should've spent that day on compassion.вЂќ He looks over the edge once more, then backs up and turns away. Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation. So what now, huh? What do you want from me?вЂќ Patch pauses as he looks over the cliff. He drives out to a cliff in a heavily wooded area, and after setting his bag of belongings down behind him, stands at the precipice to question God himself: For the second time in his life, Patch weighs his life against his misery. While Adams is doing his best to combat the DeanвЂ™s impersonal medical regulations while operating an unlicensed medical clinic, Carin, now his girlfriend, is killed in a murder-suicide by one of their patients. Unfortunately, tragedy dogs Patch persistently. Over time, his passion even convinces some of his fellow medical students, such as Carin Fisher and Truman Schiff, to help him in his elaborate pranks and gifts. Nevertheless, the hospital staff and patients come to adore him. He is met with a world of indifferent doctors, people referred to as their diseases and case numbers, and the frigid Dean Walcott who disapproves of PatchвЂ™s personal touch. He enrolls himself into medical school, determined to make a difference. Adams felt that since he could relate to his patientsвЂ™ feelings of isolation and depression, he could help alleviate their pain with his ability to make them laugh. While he is there, he finds he actually enjoys the company of his fellow patients and has a revelation: Perhaps, he thinks, he could become a doctor and use his charisma to connect with people who were suffering. In the beginning of the film, Adams- played by the late Robin Williams- has checked himself into a mental institution after a suicide attempt. The film is a l oose semi-biographical account about a man who manages to restrengthen his will to live after realizing that he could give his life meaning by helping people heal. The film, despite its overuse of sentimentality,В tells the story of a man who truly comes to understand the beauty of the world, but only at the height of his suffering. Take, for example, the anti-acclaimed and yet well-recieved film Patch Adams. Sometimes it is the act of suffering itself which can render something or someone beautiful. Frequently, films seek to take something beautiful or meaningful and destroy it beyond repair. Tragedy and its sibling, horror, are always made as spectacular and sinister displays of ruin.

This letting of emotion, either as purification or purgation, is also known as catharsis (Schaper). This is not to say that we all possess a hidden malevolence, but rather that we actively attempt to experience others' suffering in order to alleviate our own. Luckily many of us are at least mildly sadistic when it applies to tragedy. For the sadist, beauty is found in the suffering of others.

For the artist, in the subject and the method. For the writer, beauty is found in the narrative, form, and the character of their work. The concept of beauty is difficult for any one person to define.