Titicut Follies by Frederick Wiseman (1967)
Titicut Follies by Frederick Wiseman (1967)
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Titicut Follies is a 1967 documentary film by United States filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of inmates / patients at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The title is taken from a talent show put on by the hospital's inmates. In 1967 the film won awards in Germany and Italy. It was one of a number of films made by Wiseman that examined social institutions: hospital, police, school, etc., in the United States. Wiseman's cinema-verite masterpiece is very possibly the greatest documentary film of all time. Forget about what you've seen in Hollywood films, this is the raw, hellish reality of living in a cement cell, as indifferent and sadistic guards taunt and abuse the inmates. Watch in horror as a doctor forcefeeds a patient through a nose-tube, while carelessly dropping cigarette ash into the mix. Screaming, babbling maniacs galore… the lunatic is on the grass, indeed.
The film was banned from release until 1991.
Titicut Follies by Frederick Wiseman (1967)
"After a showing of TITICUT FOLLIES the mind does not dwell on the hospital's ancient and even laughable physical plant, or its pitiable social atmosphere. What sticks, what really hurts is the sight of human life made cheap and betrayed. We see men needlessly stripped bare, insulted, herded about callously, mocked, taunted. We see them ignored or locked interminably in cells. We hear the craziness in the air, the sudden outbursts, the quieter but stronger undertow of irrational noise that any doctor who has worked under such circumstances can only take for so long. But much more significantly, we see the 'professionals', the doctors and workers who hold the fort in the Bridgewaters of this nation, and they are all over…TITICUT FOLLIES is a brilliant work of art…" - Robert Coles, The New Republic
"TITICUT FOLLIES is a documentary film that tells you more than you could possibly want to know - but no more than you should know - about life behind the walls of one of those institutions where we file and forget the criminal insane…A society's treatment of the least of its citizens - and surely these are the least of ours - is perhaps the best measure of its civilization. The repulsive reality revealed in it forces us to contemplate our capacity for callousness." - Richard Schickel, Life Magazine
"It is a stark film and the most realistic and honest statement that I have seen on the mental hospital." - Morris S. Schwartz, Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations, Brandeis University
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