Titicut Follies

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Scott R @ScottR Dec 7 NYT 1000 films. An important film to take on an asylum, but it was only observation. Saw on DM. See more bensy a @Bensy1704 Jun 7 This is a super upsetting watch but is easily one of the most important, documentary you'll ever watch. As some with friends and family with intellectual disabilities like autism this made me violently angry paticularly the part where they shave Jim (a patient in the asylum) where they beat him with questions he doesn't understand and can't answer, then proceed to mock him and lock him in a blank cell. See more 01/18/2021 Nice piece of direct cinema See more @c0urtn3y 10/24/2020 this was certainly an eye opening doc... the non-narration/presentation of footage only was an interesting - & quite effective - way to tell the story as well. i recommend to anyone even slightly interested. See more 09/21/2015 Operating as a horrifying indictment of the ways in which the US government treated people suffering from mental illnesses back in the 60s, Titicut depicts several atrocities, including guards forcing the residents to perform for their amusement, patients being herded like cattle and set out to wander around the grounds, the denying of treatments that are expensive, doctors force-feeding those who refuse to do so themselves, guards taunting the people they're supposed to be protecting as they wander around without clothes, and the imprisonment of those clearly suffering from mild forms of mental illness who have no business being there. This brutal honesty places Titicut Follies among that special class of documentaries that unearth painful truths about the immense failings of our moral and governmental systems, this example made even more unnerving given the fact that the government tried for decades to destroy any evidence that would prove this film ever existed. See more 05/11/2015 This controversial documentary was banned for many years. Originally, family of the patients in the insane asylum objected to how their incarcerated family was portrayed and exploited in the film. Later it was discovered that this was just a ploy so that the filmmaker couldn't release the movie. He did, in fact, get consent from the family members. Instead, it was the faculty that was nervous at how they were portrayed in screen, quite often very abusive and unsympathetic to the patients needs. In the end, it's a document about insanity. People who are psychotic, in denial, abnormally quiet, extremely angry or just plain weird. A scary portrait on a time, place and a people who are still sadly relevant. See more Read all reviews

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