Thursday, 12 January 2017

The Trouble with HARRIS

In an old movie, “The trouble with Harry” (Paramount Pictures, 1955), a little masterpiece of black comedy directed by a great Alfred Hitchcock at his best, the inhabitants of a small village in Vermont have to manage the dead body of a man, named Harry, found on a hillside.

Trouble with HARRIS
Three of the main characters in the movie each believe that he or she is the person who killed Harry incidentally and everybody tries to hide Harry’s corpse, who becomes literally a “walking dead”, hauled and hidden, far away from the local policeman attention, for all the movie along. So, all the main characters have to bury the body and then dig it up again several times for different reasons, until the village’s doctor establishes at last, that Harry died of natural causes.

Actually, drug allergy and drug hypersensitivity are treated by most of the doctors as Harry’s dead body: they try to hide or to minimize the onset of an allergic reaction to a drug they have prescribed or administered.

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