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Re-understanding mental illness
Ruthe 2022-01-14 08:01:31
Watching the entire movie, the passionate, crazy-headed and talented father in the movie reminds me of two people in the country where I live who are regarded as mentally ill. One is a colleague of my dad, who is also related to my family. I call him uncle. When a person reached middle age, he suddenly read some magazines that were regarded as "yellow books" at the time, and bought some white briefs that were regarded as a bit lewd at the time, and forced his wife to wear them. About his crazy deeds, I only learned this one from my father, and nothing else. I only know that after he received mental treatment and took drugs every day, he became more and more puffy and silent. Another mentally ill patient suddenly demolished his brick house, and built a house painted with mud and hay by himself. Of course, the newly built house is even more ugly than the original demolished one, so that people think he must be crazy. After watching this movie, I suddenly felt that I understood these two people. They are all sensitive people. They must have been affected by something. Knowing that there is another world, they want to replicate another world and another life with their own power, but they are limited by their own knowledge and the entire social environment ( What did a person in a Chinese village in the 1980s have seen?), unable to express himself clearly but relying on the chaotic thoughts in his heart to realize the crazy ideas in his mind, how can he not be regarded as neurotic by the people at that time Woolen cloth? Maybe one of them just wants to see the woman in sexy panties in the book, and the other wants to live in the magnificent mansion depicted in the book. But how was this possible in the closed village at the time? Maybe they are not like the father in the movie who found a good motivation about love for their crazy actions, they just realized those crazy imaginations and ideas in their minds. Unfortunately, what can they do in an era when TV is not very popular? At least now I think they are definitely not really mentally ill, but just two sensitive souls struggling in the dark.
Extended Reading
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Teacher: [inquiring about her diorama] Who are all the little people Miranda?
Miranda - Age 9: Those are the bodies of the Chumash Indians, who died of Syphilis and Influenza, infected by the missionaries.
Teacher: Uh, Miranda, go out in the hallway and wait for me...
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Charlie: In questions of science, the analysis of 1000 is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual! Galileo.