Titicut Follies

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Audience Member Nice piece of direct cinema Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I am truly speechless. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Agreed with the "time capsule" idea of this film. It seems that's the point of this, just to critic how messed up the way authorities treated prisoners in the place shown. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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