He breaks out of the basement of the medical school where the isolation tank is kept, attacks a security guard, and chases a pack of wild dogs to the local zoo, where he kills and eats a raw sheep. and emerges as a fur-covered, vicious ape-man, presumably a manifestation of the primitive hominid consciousness he contacts inside the isolation tank. Ignoring the warnings of all concerned parties, he tries it again. They have two daughters together, but the marriage is strained by her groundedness and his wild, out-there intellectual passions. Jessup marries a scientist note hot physical anthropologist, actually, Emily, played by Blair Brown. He and his friend and fellow scientist Arthur, played by Bob Balaban, experiment with altered states of consciousness using isolation tank studies. The film takes places over several years, following the life of Eddie Jessup ( William Hurt), a brilliant research scientist who believes that altered states of consciousness are as real as every day reality, and investigates the religious experience in schizophrenics. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.Īltered States is a 1980 film (which some have called a vicarious LSD Experience) directed by Ken Russell (who took up the project of adapting Paddy Chayefsky's novel for the screen after the first director quit due to creative differences with Chayefsky).
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