In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.
This week we revisit John Q, a drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Denzel Washington, Anne Heche and James Woods, about a father whose son needs a heart transplant which he can't afford, so John takes an emergency room hostage to force the hospital to perform the operation.
We talk about how the movie portrays the American healthcare system, how the movie is very effective at making the audience empathise with John's position while at the same time portraying the complexities of healthcare, whether vigilante justice is justice, what John Q has to say about gender roles and expectations, the role of miracles in storytelling, and much more.
Check out the video version here:
https://youtu.be/H0oH-IVlB8k
