Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

jadedalex Maybe people really don't want to deal with schizophrenia and mental illness in general. A girl who only talks in rhymes meets a boy who doesn't want to be touched. On paper, it all seems rather silly.But "David and Lisa" was fascinating the first time I saw it, and it remained compelling on my last viewing.The very young Kier Dullea and Janet Margolin turn in poignant performances. Margolin is exceptionally beautiful in her first role. (She was quite lovely years later in Woody Allen's 'Take the Money and Run'.)Each scene is handled well. Howard De Silva gives a wonderfully understated performance as Dullea's doctor.This sort of material can easily be mishandled, and the results may be hokey or even laugh-inducing. But I didn't find a wrong note. (If I were to nitpick, I could say that the script made David's mother a bit too mean-spirited, and his father too sympathetic. But it's a minor point.)The scene where the troubled youngsters start yelling at the family at the station recalls (maybe not so oddly enough), the Todd Browning film 'Freaks'. This scene perhaps captures the spirit of Browning's 'Freaks' better than Todd's heavy-handed horror film did.This may be Kier Dullea's best performance. His eyes betray the arrogance and terror that the young man feels.It certainly is not an upbeat movie; this is probably one reason moviegoers did not warm up to it, although at the time of its release, "David and Lisa" was critically acclaimed. The black and white photography is perfect for the documentary style of the film. This movie remains a fine piece of work. Apparently, it also helped to boost the appeal of independent films, which was a good thing, as Hollywood could not always be trusted to go anywhere near films like this.

carvalheiro "David and Lisa" (1962) directed by Frank Perry was an astonishingly new kind of approach about adolescents traumatized by the adult's world for any reason or fault to adaptation on a competitive society. Because their own lyricism, not facing a reality very different of the sick turmoil of thoughts in a disturbed mind, turned only for self artificial abyss of imagination. Indeed, it was by no means a winning game inside a psychological development, instead criticizing the model of cure by electroshocks or drug medication installed in the fifties, as though a sleeping world should be the channel for cure and only that one. But the foolish David and the nervous Lisa, as tale for everybody with a problematic tale from childhood at home - having at the time here the alternative for being understood little by little -, whose contagion by a fake world of aggressive adults it was actually enormous, they were risking too then losing their own minds in an empty reality, but both in helping each other it was nonetheless better than worst. There is in this movie, made as a documentary in a hospital, a kind of rare tenderness between them as young couple of characters, when they discovered each other as main stable twin soul condition for coming out of their own unreality, only for touching the walls and listening her dislocated voice-over. Now their fingers are applied in their own affair of learning love, like the other side of the separated foolish mind, by the help of a distant doctor in mental disease as place of transition for another state of healthily body art, without the spatial environment of a house of arrest for forcing cure. The way that director Perry and wife Eleanora constructed this movie at the time, out of the traditional melodrama concerning the house arrest for mental diseases for fools with a psychoanalytic expertise, it is the strength of the subject illustrated like a television direct to the souls. Searching of lyricism and authenticity more than legitimacy, the characters never acting as in a psychological plot - for the case without at short term any cure, than loving each other or deepen in prolonged schizophrenia of very young people - in the sense of fiction as we habitually had been told in the recent past fifties - with a score of barbiturates and suicides not understated nor sensationalistic to the public opinion from the time -, namely in a big town and its outskirts. Where at an old abandoned convent this theatrical experiment was rehearsal for the screen, famous till this date at the beginning of the independent production out of self destructiveness of the creators then. This tale was about love between a boy who never talks since he enters there and a girl who doesn't like being touched on her skin.

donjp This beautiful movie has more humanity and intensity than any violent or sexual-filled film that Hollywood puts out today. The magic and conviction of this film will look in your eyes and reach deep into your heart. The acting is superb.You feel like a voyeur uninvited watching a drama unfold.The actress has a sweet demeanor which is very rare in actresses today.The actor just pulls on your heartstrings with his ability to convey to the viewer that he cant touch,yet wants to ...desparat.ely. The simple scene in which the lead actor shares a slice of chocolate cake with the psychiatrist,shows an enormous amount of two humans interacting on a level of the patient and the doctor,yet each learning and teaching from another.The vulnerability and rawness of the film reaches so many different levels and scenes throughout the movie.This film has much more raw emotion than Nicholson's film"One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".And that is because the story gets right to the point.It is beautifully done simple,and not trying to hard.Dr.Petersen

victorsargeant "The Miarcle Worker", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "David and Lisa", arrived in theaters in the same season and all black and white, all intense, human stories...that influenced me to dedicate my life to becoming a "wounded Healer". This little film, hit me hard, by first confronting my own demons, my family of origin, the dry 1950's in the Mid West Kansas prairie. Not like the "Snake Pit", this exploration of mental illness, was warmer, more understandable and approachable with the human heart. Meinger's Clinic was nearby in Topeka, Kansas, and they were doing the best clinical work in the world to date.The movie theater was our only source of connection with the outside world emotionally. Yes, radio and later TV, just one channel CBS, brought to our living rooms, words, pictures and ideas, some painful some joyous.A small Kansas wheat farming community can be a "closed information system", that is thrown into conflict, by new ideas about humanity, God, the larger World out there.We were "shaped" emotionally more by film than TV or Radio. Cinema Scope presented a window on the world, in sound and images 60x our physical being and we were enmeshed on many psychological levels by film. That is the power of film, especially in a theater with other people.James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, in "Giant", Kim Novak and William Holden, in "Picnic", made down the road from our town, were only the tip of the iceberg. "Best Years of Our Lives" and "Since You Went Away", were more than just images on the silver screen in a dark movie theater....that was 'US' up there, that was our story, our lives. We were "known, validated perhaps" by these images.We were "defined" by fashion, haircuts, musicals, songs, dance, social conflict and reminded us of our humanity, the HUMAN COMEDY, that we lived in our local patterns, in our own words and behaviors.I later became a "theater major" at the University of Colorado. Theater helped me understand human behavior, human motivation and the human masks of tragedy and comedy. Sports were important for character and physical glory and the Olympics, But Theater showed "why" the hero, the villain, the plots enriched our daily emotions.Psychology was a dimension of theater. "David and Lisa", I was like them "both" in my way and was led to explore my own shadow and my teenage demons. Like "Rebel Without a Cause" we found these films to be therapeutic and healing on many levels. Walt Disney had lied to us and westerns no longer held my interests. As a teenager my hormones were creating a new me, a new sense of personality and the purpose of being alive. I had to "know" who I am and who I am not...for some reason. "Why are we here on the dirt prairie?" No, not "Oklahoma" again? haI never take a client that is "sicker" than I am. ha And felt I should drop out my first year in graduate school, because I saw myself on every page. "I feel I am too sick to be a therapist", I told my professors. They smiled."We are more concerned about students, who never see themselves on any of the pages in the DSM", they added.I have not regretted becoming a therapist and "David and Lisa" helped build the bridge to that island, called the "Unconscious".The cast is perfect. The performances are influenced by the 1950s and like ...'Without a Cause', parents were that emotionally dead to us even then.I am pleased this film has survived and is on DVD. Music is lovely and fits the action, Kier should have been nominated for an Oscar as well as the actor who played "Lisa" can't remember her name. I actually become a close version of the psychiatrist in my way. VSS