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Titicut Follies
Documentary, Drama
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers prepared for confrontational observational documentary that exposes institutional cruelty without comfort or conventional narrative guidance.
- Tone
- bleak, dread, cerebral
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- institutional abuse, dehumanization, mental illness, custodial power, human dignity
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, state psychiatric prison