Control Your Emotions (1950)

★★★★★ · I like the film · AncientAxim · 2021-04-29

I know it's popular to sneer at these old instructional films, so I will make a proposition to viewers to put aside pretenses, phony smuggery and erroneous assumptions and to simply watch the film with a "clean mind". In the film the narrator urges us to avoid emotionally charged conversations during mealtimes. Our uploader finds that advice silly and outdated and he writes a detailed listing, in his opinion, of offenses committed by Coronet. On a whole the content should be deemed harmless if not beneficial, as it really is. Old? Sure. A little corny, but the advice supplied by this little…

★★★★ · WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?? YOU THINK I'M GONNA REVIEW THIS STUPID FILM--Oh, sorry...I was out of control there for a minu · Christine Hennig · 2004-08-23

A rather bogus-sounding psychologist lectures us on the benefits of emotional control. His arguments are based on behaviorist theory, but he is seemingly ignorant of the fact that behaviorism, in the simplistic fashion that he uses it, undercuts his arguments because its so mechanistic and deterministic. For instance, he says emotions are based on stimulus-response patterns, hitting his knee at the reflex point to illustrate this. But if emotions were that automatic and involuntary, we wouldnt have any control over them at all. But Ill forgive him for that because he has the coolest…

★★★★ · Grrrrrrr!! · Spuzz · 2003-04-10

In this Coronet film about controlling your emotions, it is narrated by one ugly doctor, er, psychologist, er whatever he is (it's not explained). Anyways, with the help of some rather large props he has lying around, we find out that the only 3 emotions we have are Rage, Love and um, another one I can't remember. A case study is presented where a boy is JUST not having the greatest day (he flings the sprinlker around in desperation in one mad scene). The doctor-whatever says that he should try to control his emotions and adopt an aw-shucks attitude. Nothing is explained as to HOW this can be…

★★★★ · The Final Scene · JayKay49 · 2013-02-23

So what I get to is that ..eh..your mind is like a marshmallow on a stick?

★★★ · So what's the problem here? · whoanellie · 2010-03-28

OK, so the head-shrinker is a little bit creepy-looking, but what is there really to attack about the rest of the film? Every functioning adult controls his emotions. One post criticizes the fact that the film didn't address every single aspect of anger management. Well, in my opinion, it just about did. Any healthy young person can learn to control himself, and the movie wasn't meant to address those with actual, deeper, treatable problems.