I never ever bothered with the review, but with this one, seeing the overwhelming sea of 10/10, I just couldn't let this slide.
This has the looks of a propaganda piece. Which part of this supposed to be a documentary? I don't know if you have to have any exceptional education in psychology (unfinished Bachelor program over here), but this has been made to do a few things: 1) downplay the severity of psychological trauma by showing how apparently easy it is to get all that sorted out 2) and how easy it would be to go back into the world
It gives only the slightest admission to that trauma and readjusting to regular life is a problem, but only to show that apparently you can fix that in a 5 minute talk/hypnosis therapy and then have a group session talking about how you're fine and you can easily go back to normal and, let's say, if future employers might not be worried about a state of an individual, it's pretty much just unwarranted stigma on their part.
I mean, you could even nitpick here about the somewhat cinematic cuts, whether the people there seemed believable and how none of them have any physical scars. Oh yeah, and this film wasn't shot by an independent movie maker, that is to say, there was some favoritism at play probably on how you want to spin this.
Huston seemed to do pretty much everything to NOT make this demoralizing and it still wasn't enough, since it wasn't released until the 1980s.
This has the looks of a propaganda piece. Which part of this supposed to be a documentary? I don't know if you have to have any exceptional education in psychology (unfinished Bachelor program over here), but this has been made to do a few things: 1) downplay the severity of psychological trauma by showing how apparently easy it is to get all that sorted out 2) and how easy it would be to go back into the world
It gives only the slightest admission to that trauma and readjusting to regular life is a problem, but only to show that apparently you can fix that in a 5 minute talk/hypnosis therapy and then have a group session talking about how you're fine and you can easily go back to normal and, let's say, if future employers might not be worried about a state of an individual, it's pretty much just unwarranted stigma on their part.
I mean, you could even nitpick here about the somewhat cinematic cuts, whether the people there seemed believable and how none of them have any physical scars. Oh yeah, and this film wasn't shot by an independent movie maker, that is to say, there was some favoritism at play probably on how you want to spin this.
Huston seemed to do pretty much everything to NOT make this demoralizing and it still wasn't enough, since it wasn't released until the 1980s.