In recent years, there have been institutions that play a very special role in the areas of mental health, disability and child protection, and for a long time no government agency has wanted to raise this issue, fearing that if these institutions are closed, many children will suddenly lose care.
As early as 2011, the film "Untouchable" directed by Olivier Nakash and Eric Toledano had a certain influence in the film industry, and it always occupied a high score in the Douban list.
This time they appeared in the audience's field of vision again with the new film "Beyond the Standard". The two directors are good at paying attention to trivial life fragments in real society, with delicate emotions and insights and thinking that strike deep into the heart.
The story revolves around Bruno and Malik, who have lived in a world of autistic children and teenagers for the past 20 years. They each formed their own association to recruit young people to deal with tricky incidents for them.
If "Untouchable" is to show the life state of the characters through the individual, then "Beyond the Standard" is to present the state of mutual help and interdependence between them in groups. In the life of the group state, everyone conveys a personal feeling, and this personal feeling is stimulated and integrated, and then highlights the collectivized emotion, and the collectivized emotion can touch the sensitivity of the public's self-consciousness.
In the image, Bruno and Malik live in a different world, a world for children and teenagers with autism. The duo manage Two non-profit organizations, The Hatch & The Shelter, with the goal of training young people in poor areas to work as guardians and care for severely ill cases that have been shut out of other facilities.
This unconventional partnership shows an extraordinary life. In addition to the standard rules, they help people with disabilities and autistic children overcome difficulties and provide them with employment opportunities.
In it, the interviews of the two investigators throughout the film, they are not here to cause trouble, they just explain to us in their own way the definition of the standard, and the connotation of the standard can exist.
We can see that most of these autistic patients have a more serious tendency to violence, and even more self-harm behavior, they are a group "abandoned" by formal institutions, they are on the margins, and the formal institutions often treat them by binding, injecting, injecting, locking up and other rough ways to treat them, such treatment is difficult to ensure that they can return to society well after healing.
For Bruno and Malik, the heads of two non-profit organizations, their purpose is to be able to enter the hearts of this group of disabled people, help them overcome their physical and inner fears, and allow them to return to society.
In the film, the nurses who take care of autistic patients should have the standards of high education and nursing experience as the investigators say, but in the care institutions for autistic patients, these standards do not exist, the nurses often have no academic qualifications, most of them are common marginal people in society, such a group of small even take good care of themselves and how to take care of others, not to mention that this is still a group of severe autism patients.
In the continuous advancement of the plot, we will find that the two institutions eventually work together, on the one hand, young people in poor areas serve as "one-on-one" care and guardians of autistic patients, on the other hand, young people on the margins of society also get a job, they help each other and redeem each other.
The film takes a small black youth as the representative of this group of marginalized people to complete his character arc, initially he is late for work, his attitude is indifferent, and even because of his irresponsible performance, he almost threatens the life of autistic youth, and finally he infects patients in an unprofessional way, passes on his kindness to them, and learns how to express love while taking care of these autistic patients, completing his own healing and redemption.
"Beyond the Standard" makes us think about this group of marginalized characters in the movie, who have unavoidable pain in the face of the pain of survival, although they are small and powerless, but also have their own things to insist on and identify.
"Beyond the Standard" completes the arc of the characters with non-standard rules and actions, focusing on the patients themselves and their families, and it is also the institutions and nurses who are responsible for taking care of them. The film presents us with a relaxed, humorous atmosphere, and behind this hidden serious social problems are gradually exposed - who will protect the autistic people?
As shown in the film, hospitals and public institutions are reluctant to accept these severely ill autistic patients because for them, this group of patients has a serious tendency to violence, is extremely difficult to manage, and requires a lot of money to use on them, and it is common to avoid difficult cases.
In contrast, they prefer to admit mild patients, which is easy to manage and does not require a lot of money, which is the standard for society to treat autistic people. The film shows a group of patients who are outside the standard, who have no job, who have lost the center of society, whose condition is constantly deteriorating, and who are willing to accept them and provide them with a living environment and accompany them to fight the disease.
"Beyond the Standard" breaks the standard, broadens the broader space outside the standard, and allows us to see a scene of warmth, the content presented in the film is consistent with actual life, close to real life, this group of seemingly marginalized nurses, they use their actions to warm the hearts of autistic patients in the cold.
And it reflects the humanistic care, so that everyone pays attention to the living environment of autistic patients, and even continues to reflect on the current situation of the whole society.