We live under various tyranny every day, and various voices in society dictate our lives all the time. The most terrifying thing is that we are unaware of these, and even put the dictator in our life on the altar.
Throughout the film, I see the tyranny of experts recurring in three threads throughout.
The male protagonist, Chris, was diagnosed with autism by the doctor, and was labelled "abnormal" by the authority, and has since been treated in a different light. When the heroine Dana said that his life was very unique, he immediately denied that "it's not special at all, I have high-functioning autism." hat of.
The male protagonist's father, as an authority in the family, insisted on letting the male protagonist adapt to the cruel world, thinking that this was the best thing for the male protagonist. In the past 17 years, he moved 34 times, and constantly arranged rigorous physical training for the brothers, and asked the male protagonist to take revenge on his classmates who bullied him. . . In the end, the mother was forced away and the family was torn apart.
Analyst Madina was found "guilty" by the judge, who represents the authority of fairness and justice, and was jailed. Few people know that when she stuffed cocaine into the nose of a drug dealer, her mind was full of the haggard figure of her sister after taking drugs.
The film reminds me of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, where the fear of the authoritative tyranny of the doctor is presented in the book, which ends up in Mrs Dalloway's doppelganger, Septimus, in a way that ends her life Shows compromise and uncompromising on authority. In the movie, except for the analyst who made it clear that he has no regrets, both the male and female protagonists compromise with the world and try their best to fit in with everyone and be a "normal person". This is actually the status quo of today's society: marginalized people also accept their "abnormal" settings, struggle hard, and try their best to return to the mainstream.
There are many children around me who are diagnosed with "autism" and "ADHD" and are forced to take medicine, which makes me very sad. They are just different. Why do some people pretend to know the client better than the client and put a bunch of strange labels on them?
The desired appeal of the whole movie is actually hidden in the dialogue between the father and the doctor at the beginning.
"Doctor, in your opinion, can our son live a normal life?" (Doctor, in your opinion, can our son live a normal life?)
"What is normal?" (Define normal.)
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