Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
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Title: Titicut Follies (1967)
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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
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banned film | 1960s | title appears in writing | convicted pedophile | sex talk |Taglines:
Don't turn your back on this film... if you value your mind or your life.Genres:
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4 September 1992 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Siilipäiden revyy See more »Filming Locations:
State Prison for the Criminally Insane - 20 Administration Road, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USACompany Credits
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Doctor: Well, you'll get it here, I guess.
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Titicut Follies was not banned completely by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The final decree of the Suffolk Superior Court EQ. No. 87538 said it could continue to be screened, but only for audiences comprised of the medical or legal community, specifically naming Legislators, Judges, Lawyers, Sociologists, Social Workers, Doctors, Psychiatrists, Students in these or related fields, Organization(s) dealing with the social problems of custodial care and mental infirmity. Wiseman would rent the film to people who signed a statement of intent that they would limit the audience to those allowed. See more »Quotes
Patient: I need help, I just don't know where I can get it.Doctor: Well, you'll get it here, I guess.
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This is easily one of the most disturbing documentary films ever made. The state of Mass. blocked distribution of this film for well over a decade after its release because it was simply too honest and unflinching in its portrayal of the horrific systemic abuses of this institution. What makes the film so very important is not simply its evidence about this particular institution, but, the light it sheds on the kind of society that would treat the least fortunate of its members in this dehumanizing and cruel way. There is political analysis offered by the patients themselves that brings in the rather obvious connections to the police state, colonization, and genocide.