![]() ![]() For a long time, and perhaps still, mental illness has not been well understood. ![]() Audiences will always want to watch things they don’t quite understand. There is no shortage of onscreen depictions of mental health issues. These two films, while both masterpieces, follow the trope that people with mental illness are inherently violent and are to be avoided at all costs. ![]() #VEX MOVIES UNSANE SERIAL#Think of the most famous madmen horror protagonists, from a murderer-voyeur who exhumes his mother (Psycho) to a serial killer who skins his victims alive to make a suit of their flesh (The Silence of the Lambs). Miloš Forman’s film, based on the Ken Kesey novel, was praised at the time for a sympathetic treatment of the inpatients, its “battle against the system” narrative and the more-or-less accurate portrayals of the often inhumane treatments routine at the time (lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy without muscle relaxants).Ĭuckoo’s Nest was a commercial and critical success, but such a nuanced take – for its time – on the subject was rare in film. One of the screen characters we most associate with mental illness is Jack Nicholson’s Mac McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest who, lest we forget, was not insane, just hoping to avoid a prison sentence. ![]()
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