Titicut Follies (1967)
Highly controversial documentary chronicaling life inside a Massachusetts institution for mentally ill convicts... (imdb)
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djross | 76 86th |
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Effective exposé of institutionalisation (even today there is little public awareness of the day-to-day realities of such places). It remains the case that one of the great flaws of representative democracy is that there are no votes in mental health. Look for the fallout shelter sign.
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Ytadel | 3 28th |
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Never have I seen so much penis! :-O
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PeaceAnarchy | 96 99th |
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This is much more chilling than I imagined it would be. There may not be outright brutality but the disgusting psychological treatment and living conditions of the patients are going to linger in my mind for a long time. There are some light moments but everything about the film from its contents to its very existence and the attempts to ban it is a constant reminder of how terrible things were and how far we've come as a society.
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TrixRabbi | 84 85th |
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A study in dehumanization. Wiseman's interested in the inmates, but it's the personnel of the hospital that are the real characters, who are perhaps practicing their own form of insanity.
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teknicolor | 75 68th |
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Very depressing. VERY unsettling. Cinéma vérité at its vérité-est.
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Alex Watkins | 4 70th |
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It's quite draining to watch the casual indifference with which human beings are warehoused and shuffled to and fro here, made only more horrifying by the good faith in which some of the staff seem to be operating.
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tonydal | 65 29th |
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I always remember the thing about the psych guy asking the inmate how often he masturbates--and then critiquing his response. Sums up the whole business for me.
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Barthalen | 71 59th |
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Often uncomfortable to see, though not always interesting.
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Enthusiast | 75 67th |
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Not quite as rough a ride as I was expecting, but the images will certainly stay with you for a while. Wiseman's camera is as passionless an observer as you'll find, which is necessary to keep this from boiling over into either needless hand-wringing or outright exploitation.
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begoniabol | 69 57th |
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That force feeding scene is horrible. So unhumane, especially how that man smokes his cigarette while forcing that tube down the other man's nose..
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auhasarderik | 7 61st |
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"Chinatown my Chinatown" is quite an unforgettable moment, and the best moments here are the musical ones. For some reason I kept imagining a Herzog like narration asking how does society pick who is insane and who is not.
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| Average Percentile 70.79% from 380 Ratings |  |