our dear Ma really is a mad man, or is it a happy horse?
Second, it
turns out that each of us is acting as someone else. The military doctor Lamb became Dr Lamb, the murderer Finn became the supervisor, the mentally retarded Millie became the nurse, the boiler worker and the transvestite, and our dear Mr. Ma.
And these people were originally mental patients! Or at least think so. After Teacher Cai’s explanation, we understand that in early Europe, in order to maintain the purity of the royal family, many close relatives were married, and those abnormal offspring were often kept secretly in remote mental hospitals without being discovered by the world. The people who were imprisoned together had all kinds of "abnormalities", and they were despised by the original aristocracy and abandoned their original identities. The new identity is the mental patient.
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, what is a mental patient? It was explained from the beginning of the film. In 1899, in a medical class, the lady Mrs Graves, oh no, Mrs Graves, a hysteria patient, was pushed up in a wheelchair for everyone to do experiments and research. And various experiments and research objects in Stonehearst Asylum. Yes, medicine at the end of the 18th century was still in various stages of exploration. As we saw in the movie, there is a skull with holes, electric shock frogs, spinning and cold bath therapy, etc. Teacher Cai explained that the medications at the time were nothing more than anesthesia, sleep and heroin.
The reason why the Dean Dr Salt is so persistent in finding the breaking point of the military doctor Lamb is because he still does not recognize his identity as a mental patient. In fact, the logic is quite strange. As a doctor, you must first turn a person into a patient to heal you. . .
Poor Salt and Lamb (note, I have removed their titles here) finally lost their identities and became really mental patients.
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But there has always been no shortage of people who are restless and guarding themselves. Dr Newgate is Luo (let's call him that for now). Graduated from Oxford (Teacher Cai said it was the best school in the world's strongest country at the time!) but had to go to a remote mental hospital to gain clinical experience; adhering to the belief that all mental patients can be cured, but insisting on taking one person Leave; kill for love. Keep telling Mrs Graves that I can do it, I can take you away. This one-sided love, which also transcends the identity of a doctor and patient, faces the oppression of a horrible hospital, and has to escape ascended into heaven. It really has the sense of sight of a Hollywood blockbuster. And such American personal heroism blockbusters often stem from the fact that small people are not satisfied with their own identity settings. They must challenge authority and leap into the definition of heroes to accomplish their great cause.
I just kept thinking about it, Dr Newgate kept saying that he wanted to protect Mrs Graves, but his own appearance was the culprit who brought Mrs Graves into danger step by step! Even if he completes his transformation from a doctor to a hero, it will not affect Mrs Graves's identity at all! Because for Mrs Graves, with music and piano, she is a happy person.
Until the last 10 minutes of the film, it is not surprising that I jumped over his identity. The restless Newgate has been described as a liar mental patient in the past. What about now? How many hidden Newgates are there among us! It’s just that I didn’t blatantly pretend to be someone else, but I’m actually doing something beyond my identity.
Of course, there are also people who stand by themselves and set an example. Just like the head nurse Marion, her care. She dislikes Dr Salt's inhumane treatment of mental patients, but as the head nurse, she can't clearly criticize it. She has her responsibility. Even thinking of Lamb as her own patient, she said to Dr Newgate, illuminate the darkest part of his heart with the fire of your compassion.
Only when you find your identity, you know where you belong. In order to settle down and live a life. Just like Mrs Graves didn't want to leave at last, she said that she couldn't imagine living outside of a mental hospital.
And failing to find our own domain, or all kinds of restlessness, is the source of our troubles!
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identities.
Before Newgate appeared, Lamb had always been a military doctor Lamb. Not only did he not collapse in front of Dr Salt, but he also seized control of the hospital, allowing the hospital to reform under the idea of being a military doctor himself, and he received good results. No more drug abuse, no torture of all kinds, and positions for patients based on talents. Mrs Graves can play the piano. Millie, who barely speaks, has become a nurse helping others. Everyone can sit at a table and eat together.
Newgate appears, and the military doctor Lamb becomes Dr Lamb. Especially after seeing that Dr Newgate can wake Arthur. He needs Newgate, an assistant with a professional background, to help him fulfill the duties of a real dean and seek help. Even Finn said that Lamb had changed. You know that the army doctor Lamb's original plan was to let everyone die. He couldn't heal them personally. Only death can free them.
Just a little bit, Dr Lamb's identity made him a good person. Similarly, the identity of the horse makes our dear Mr. Ma so happy. As a nurse, Millie not only speaks, communicates with others, but also yearns for love. Arthur was awakened by his name and also assumed the responsibility of welcoming guests in the mental hospital of the new order.
No wonder Mrs Graves wants to blame Newgate, you don't know my name, so what is the difference between you and those people! A name, there is an identity, there is a responsibility, it is the possession of a normal person! That's why the movie espionage is full of shadows, and Byrne desperately tried to find his identity. That's why the movie The White-haired Witch's Biography, who is obsessed with Linghu Chong, is just because he gave her a name.
The patients in Stonehearst Asylum only became patients because they lost their original aristocratic/original identity because of their "unusual". Retrieving their respective identities, even if it is a name and a responsibility, they will no longer be patients, and their lives will have the possibility of getting better. Without identity, there is no respect, erase their differences, and treat them as mental patients. This is the hell hospital.
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Newgate is Dr Newgate, is MrsPike's son, or has he become Dr Lamb? He is a mental patient who has no name, no identity, and made a theme tour of a mental hospital.
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