Protraph Lack of good storyline.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

vpascarella76 "America is the female part of the world and is nymphomaniac. Her sexuality due to wars such as the sperm that a man puts a woman and a woman in her own body. It has the same effect that this is only on a gigantic scale. A gigantic and violent scale. Do you want to tell me that after sex you feel good and healthy? No. " From Titicut Follies (1967) by Frederick Wiseman documentary on patients at the Bridgewater State Hospital, recovery Institute for criminals deemed insane in Massachusetts. Film debut of one of the most famous American documentary filmmakers, self-produced with great difficulty, was kept under projection ban for 23 years, were considered offensive and obscene and guilty of violating the privacy of patients (although none of them or family members have ever denounced the author). Starting and ending with the scenes of a musical interpreted by the patient - precisely titled "Titicut Follies" - the documentary shows us the paradoxical way in which mental illness is made to become a "show" from the same institution that should take care of them. Just the fight against the institutions is one of the key points of the poetics of Wiseman and emerges with great force already from his first work showing violent clashes between patients and doctors / nurses hospital. A journey into the corners of human folly, in which the camera tries to be "invisible" to their subjects to describe their relationship with total sincerity with the company (eg. The monologue quoted above) and the community of the sick, showing us is the most shocking scenes, like that of a man nourished by force or another completely naked screaming in its completely empty cell, both the moments of tenderness to remind us how they too are human.

milerjane This is less of a documentary review and more an eye opener to those who plan on seeing this movie.I know a man who was there. He's a beautiful and wonderful man who was tortured there as a small child. There was nothing wrong with him. He never knew a childhood of love and nurturing, only pain and suffering. He is one of many, "Normal" people who suffered at the hands of these doctor's at this horrific hospital.When and if you decide to watch this please keep in mind that what is filmed is only a small portion of the real horrors of which man kind is capable of. Then think how you too can help people see the truth behind many of the wrongs still happening today.

vjax1451 I saw this film while in college back in the 1970's and was amazed and disturbed. I think it was banned or hard to find at that time. My professor was able to get a copy. It is difficult to describe this documentary. It was sad, harshly realistic and horrific. This was how inmates/patients were treated, but again, it was the 1960's. They were likely using the same treatment methods since the 1920's. One interesting note, I met one of the patients who was in the film. He had been released and apparently was doing well enough. I'll not identify him because he was well known in his community. He remembered the filming, but did not know that he was famous for it. He has since passed away, but many people remember him fondly. If there can be a bright side to this film, I guess that's it.

prexan I ran into this amazing movie on a site where it was available for download (www.libertv.com). They didn't offer much of a commentary other than it was a documentary about a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. More specifically, it is a 1966 film about the realities of a state institution for criminally insane. Haunting cinematography in black and white, no overlapping commentary, as the images are powerful enough in themselves. It is deeply unsettling to see the overlapping delusional universes - the patients' and the staff's views of the world, each one right in their own eyes and at the same time utterly unable to see the reality through the eyes of the other. Also, it is unnerving to see how the professionals end up harming those they genuinely want to help. Schizophrenia is projected into the very system that is supposed to break it. The movie clearly demonstrates the system's fundamental flaw, which is its attempt to cure splitting by further splitting it (away from the world). And that may be the very reason for each, instead of mending those who suffer the system not only perpetuates sufferance but ends up broken itself.