treatment 13
so any ideas on what the final surgery is?
ill be boring and guess its gelding/castration
Know what? I had assumed it was castration as well, keeping with the progression of removing things...but I just now thought maybe it was a lobotomy. That would be a fitting final treatment for patients incapable of being cured- who were so "sick" that no balance could be achieved.
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I also think a lobotomy would be kind of appropriate... perhaps representing the general brain removal that goes on in the world today (encouraging others to think for you?) Drawing a long bow, perhaps, but this film is definitely a comment for today's power structures and political ideas (as Svankmajer himself says in the intro), so I wonder if it couldn't be compatible with all that.
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I believe it is amputation, and I think it was both his legs not one. As when they show him in his bed he is covered and looks like a stump covered in the bed.
Remember he was known to escape, and the director said oh they didn't get far. What better way to make sure he never gets away again than to cut his legs off.
In the treatment cards on the DVD their was one were a woman is getting her arm cut of and one of someone getting their leg cut off.
Forgot to add Dominic when walking in a circle outside, looked like he had gotten a toe cut off as his entire foot was bandaged and he was dragging the foot that was bandaged as he walked with the crutches.
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