J.O.I.'s filmography — "a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling…"
a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancée’s (‘Psychosis’’s) face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator
Context
Safe Boating Is No Accident, and the filmography's most loaded casting: Madame Psychosis — Joelle — playing a woman whose face is destroyed and whose lover must decide what his love is now for. Himself scripted the exact scenario the novel keeps undecidable about Joelle herself, shot it as farce, and put his son's girlfriend in the mangled-face role — around the very period the alleged accident-or-no-accident happened. The strongest single item in the filmography for this theme: the disfigured beloved as a problem in the lover's conscience, which is U.H.I.D.'s whole critique of the gazer. (The "(‘Psychosis’’s)" double-apostrophe possessive is as written.)