I am looking forward to a movie that is situated in the present. All I know of what psychiatric hospitals are from movies such as "House of Fools" discussed earlier. Set in decades back it would not be a fair representation of hospitals today. But it was portrayed as dirty, outdated and overcrowded.
This picture is the kind of thing I think of when I think back to the 'dark ages' and the Bethlam Hospital. This was the time when patients were used to attract tourists: the rich would pay to come and see the 'insane'. The methods of 'treatment' were horrendous and included much violence to the body.
What do you think of when you hear 'psychiatric hospital'?
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ReplyDeleteI wonder what would really happen in psychiatric hospitals. It is a mystery for me so I would like to see a good movie about this issue.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they would ever make a film with an accurate depiction of a psychiatric institution? We tend to ignore mental illness so a film that did not create a spectacle of it would, I think, be rare. But I agree, I would love to understand the day to day workings of one of those hospitals.
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