pretty crazy, no pun intended. man, this film is chock full of samples.
it was disturbing, and whoever did the cuts (wiseman I assume) did do some pretty interesting things.
It lacked an emotional climax, which doesn't particularly bother me; but it was surreal.
Worth watching.
Wishlist it.
peace,
matt
y do u say its sureal? this film is a part of 'direct cinema' and is supposed to to realistic.
sharesur·re·al adj.
1. Having qualities attributed to or associated with surrealism: “Even with most facilities shut down... a few mavericks managed to slip into the park to sample the almost surreal emptiness before the shutdown ended.” (Peter H. King).
2. Having an oddly dreamlike quality.
and my usage was my layman's definition of mixing the fantastic elements with the real, in apperance; but the real definition works even better.
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I just Seeked my Soul; and put it on my Wishlist.
It lacked an emotional climax, which doesn't particularly bother me; but it was surreal.
Where did you see this? I would love to view it.
shareIf you keep a watch out, sometimes PBS airs it...uncensored and uncut...they have not did it in a while, but they do, that's where I first seen it, years ago when I was a kid, I actually scared me then, so much that I hunted it down as an adult, hah!...anyway...that's where, I got mine...
shareThanks for the tip! I will check it out.
shareyou can see this at most college libraries, but will have to watch it there. They allow this to be seen at most 'institutes of learning'.
shareafter that go and beat the living *beep* out of an inmate/patient.
Saw it last night.Not as frightening as I feared but I'm glad things have changed since.The way the inmates were treated by the guards was just dehumanising.
shareTo be honest, I saw nothing disturbing at all. The guards taunting the one old man, because he hadn't cleaned his room got to be very old. He took it too far and should have shut up long before he did. The rest seemed to be guards, doctors, and nurses doing the best they could to deal with the criminally insane. The one guy that kept trying to get out by saying he was well, just seemed to be carrying on what he'd done in regular prison. In prison, he though everyone was trying to poison his food; in the asylum, it was that he was getting worse by being given medicine he felt he didn't need. Maybe there was something I missed.
share"To be honest, I saw nothing disturbing at all"
The guard who kept taunting the man who messed his room was doing it to provoke an angry reaction, even when he had a razor to his throat, which incidentally ending up cutting his mouth.
The way they kept talking to the man in the bath when he was putting his face into the water:
"don't do it that way"
"sit back"
"hey"
"Sit back and blah blah"
What difference does it make? There are 4 of you surrounding him anyway so at the slightest problem you could whip him out. It stunk of power-tripping and I am 100% convinced there was much worse happening at that place when the cameras were not there.
Also.
The doctor talking to the the child molester, he asked several questions and never really gave him a fair chance to reply, sometimes when he did try to reply the doctor would then talk across him or ask another barrage of questions. It was the doctors way of saying "I'm not going to listen to you, you wont be going anywhere for a very long time, listen to me instead".
Same 'Doctor'.
When he was talking to the schizophrenic the first time in the rec yard. The man actually raised very good and sensible points, doctor didn't address them at all as usual, dismissive, uninterested, only there to smoke 700 cigarettes a day and get paid for doing so.
Same 'doctor'.
Forcing that tube past the point marked on it to indicate it was in the right place when 'feeding' that gentleman who later died.
So yes you missed a lot of the obvious abuses going on there, even the nurse towards the end said "well at least we try for these people" because she knows that place isn't working for hardly anyone in there.