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Titicut Follies

  • 19671967
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 24m
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7.7/10
4.6K
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Titicut Follies (1967)
  • Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
IMDb RATING
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4.6K
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  • Director
    • Frederick Wiseman
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  • Director
    • Frederick Wiseman
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    • 45Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins

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    Frederick Wiseman and Joey Huertas , 2015. Documentarians of the 'Direct Cinema' movement.

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Screened for the cast and crew of Shutter Island (2010) before production began.
    • Quotes

      Patient: How did the first Great War start? Because of a demand by the Austrian Hungary Dynasty for the execution of an accomplice who already was sentenced to life imprisonment in, um, in Serbia. Yet they demanded a prosecution for execution for Austria-Hungary laws! What does that mean? They wanted execution! The war was fought over execution! The same execution that is going on in Vietnam; over making an execution over these natives of Vietnam. They're not Vietcong, they're not communists. Whatever the American Government doesn't like, they use the - they foist on this term "communist". Because I speak the way I do, you gonna call me a communist? I'm not a communist! Even though, I have communist affiliations. Communist really means Community-ist. That's what we are if you want to call us communists because we are FOR our community. We like the well-standards. We're for the people. And that's what they call these uh... what do they call? these people that talk about a new matter... Agitators! We agitate... do we start these troubles? I'm a communist because I expound my views about the world conditions? It's the duty of every citizen to expound his views or her views of what goes on in the world. If more of them expounded their views about the conditions in the world, less chaotic conditions would exist. And the nuclear war is gonna happen not because - not what i say, not what all these war-mungers or peace-mungers blab about because all throughout the ages you will find: every time a new weapon was put out they say its the end of war. They said the submarine was the end of war, what happened? The gas masks put an end to war. What happened? They got masks. What about these submarines that are supposed to control the seas? What happened? They got airplanes that drop def-charges. You look through the ages and you find new weapon is put out, somebody puts out a counter-weapon. But the nuclear weapon doesn't stop because people are stock-piling. Anybody who starts stock-piling weapons eventually uses them! They get tired of stock-piling them and they use them. They're just like kids. They figure they got toys to play with, they're gonna play with those toys!

    • Crazy credits
      Re-release: 'The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ordered that "A brief explanation shall be included in the film that changes and improvements have taken place at Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater since 1966".
    • Connections
      Featured in What Is Cinema? (2013)

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    9/10
    Hard to Watch
    The coarseness of this film is so hard to watch. Unlike most documentaries, the camera and the sound do everything, without any narration. What we have here is a kind of subjugation of decency and respect for human life as the criminally insane (most of them) are treated horribly. The artistry is in the selection of events as the camera runs. I was in college when I first saw this. A fellow student told me a film was being shown in the student union that had been banned in many places and I should see it because it may never be available again. It took me days to get it out of my head. I was pretty innocent in those days and to this day I'm affected the same way. Just a warning. Don't really expect to be entertained.
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    • Release date
      • September 4, 1992 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Безумцы Титиката
    • Filming locations
      • State Prison for the Criminally Insane - 20 Administration Road, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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