Harvey (1950): A Meditation On Kindness

A middle-aged man and his imaginary rabbit best friend charm their way out of a stay at a psychiatric ward.

João Pedro Fernandes
Counter Arts
Published in
5 min readOct 4, 2023

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Frame from the film Harvey: Elwood P. Dowd smiling at a portrait of himself with his best friend Harvey, a 6-foot tall white rabbit
Frame from the film Harvey (1950) .Credit: Universal Pictures

“Excuse me young man, you can’t park here.”

It had been more than eight hours of on-again-off-again work in the shortest-sleeved shirt I had available when I decided to leave the house at the…

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João Pedro Fernandes
Counter Arts

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