The theme song is played by the heroine herself, which makes the film's soundtrack perfectly integrated with the storyline and characterization, and the scene at the end is so beautiful that I want to repeat it.
Of course, the most important thing is the exploration of spiritual healing in the film, which definitely reaches a new height of spiritual film. Although I am not a doctor who does not understand psychotherapy, I think the methods of psychotherapy in the film can be roughly divided into three categories:
1. Pain-relieving therapy. This is the method used by the old dean. Today, this therapy seems crude and cruel, even frenzied. However, in the era of more than a hundred years ago, when the problem of mental treatment was still so mysterious, doctors could not help but say that this method was an exploratory attempt, by allowing patients to face the most painful things, in order to control/ overcome fear. The effect of this therapy is obviously not satisfactory.
However, it is right to realize that the inner "fear" is the culprit of all mental problems. It's just that this kind of "fear" hides so deeply that people probably don't know much about it a hundred years ago, and people probably won't know much about it a hundred years later. . .
2. Natural therapy. After Dr. Lamb took control of the hospital, he locked normal medical staff in the basement and treated the patient as a normal person. Although the patient seemed to be able to live a normal life, he could not get a real cure.
3. Role substitution therapy. When Newgate treated her mother-in-law on a hunger strike, he used this illusion of first affirming and identifying with the patient, establishing a trusting relationship with her, and then slowly enlightening her to face the truth. . . this. . . Isn't this the method the Holy Spirit uses to awaken us? It can't be praised more.
Recall that scene. Among a group of madmen, one madman is healing another madman who can't even be cured by a doctor? Who the hell is a doctor and who is a lunatic? Friends who are studying ACIM must be able to understand at this time. Isn't this saying that love (the Holy Spirit) is the real doctor.
"The Holy Spirit is actually the "voice" that speaks on behalf of the Lord, who has been wandering with you in the illusion, drifting to such a remote foreign land. "-Farewell to Sao Po
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Appreciation of lines:
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What's it like? To be in love?
(The little girl asked Eliza this sentence may be the most important A line from, which connects the ideological connotation of the whole movie. At that time, Eliza wanted to speak and stopped. I thought it was because of that feeling that was unspeakable. At the end of the film, I realized that it was not because Eliza was unable to express, but because She didn't know at the time!)
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Eliza: Why did you come here?
Newgate: I came here for you.
Eliza: For me? Why?
Newgate: II saw you six months ago at a medical lecture.
I saw you.
You looked so lost and so beautiful.
It sickened me to see you exhibited like a sideshow freak.
I would have stopped it if I could, but I couldn't.
II couldn't.
So, I vowed there and then that I would find you
and that nothing would stop me.
Eliza: Did you even know my name?
Newgate: It didn't matter.
Eliza: No, it does matter.
Saying otherwise proves you're no better than any of them.
Newgate: Than who?
Eliza: My family, my doctors, my husband.
You act like I'm some precious thing to be bartered
or put on display or possessed.
Newgate: It-It's not like that with me, Eliza.
Eliza: No? How is it different?
Newgate: It's you who possesses me.
(Unlike the usual love story, Newgate’s love at sight includes more than just love...)
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Lamb Dr.: We're All MAD, Dr. Newgate.
S Some are Simply not enough to Admit MAD IT.
(We are crazy, but most people are afraid to admit, or are they not aware of it!)
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Newgate: You know, Eliza said you were always very kind to her
and the other patients.
Marion: I loved them like my own children.
Newgate: Even Lamb?
Marion: There is some good even in poor Silas.
Though I fear it has become deranged by madness.
Newgate: How do I understand him?
Marion: Your first instinct was the right one.
Think of him as your patient.
Shine the light of your sympathy into the darkest corners of his mind,
and maybe then you'll find what he so desperately wants
to keep hidden from you and from himself.
Only then will you have what you need.
Newgate: To defeat him?
Marion: No. To heal him.
(venerable doctor Marion)
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Eliza: Help me. One of you. Please, I'm not mad.........
(Many people have heard Eliza's cry for help, but no one will believe her to help her unless he Also a madman, a madman called by love/holy inspiration...)
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