Titicut Follies (1967)

84 min · Social Study, documentary film

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Directors

Frederick Wiseman

The story

Titicut Follies portrays the occupants of Bridgewater State Hospital, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed. It also depicts inmates/patients forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff. The film employs methods of direct cinema, which emphasizes observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention by filmmakers.

Catalogue themes and tags

1967, Basic Rights and Human Rights, Child Abuse, Controversial, Folter, Gewalt, Grausamkeit, Hospital, Madhouse, Male Nudity, Massachusetts, Mental Disease, Nervenklinik, Neurotic, Nudity, Nurse, Paranoia, Patienten, Pedophilia, Personality Disorder, Police Brutality, Psychological Abuse, Psychologist, Psychology, Psychose, Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Psychotropics, Schizophrenia, Selbstmord, Stage Show, Stage performance, Sterben, Torture by the Police, Trauma, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Warden, Zwangsernährung, Culture & Society, History, Black-and-white, Law & Crime, Social issues, Documentary

Genres

Social Study, documentary film

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