In 1978, Italy passed the famous Basalia Act, which recognizes the rights and interests of persons with mental illness and respects the human needs and rights of mentally ill persons. After the passage of this law, all psychiatric hospitals in Italy were closed one after another, and community psychiatric rehabilitation centers were opened, in which mentally ill patients can work and fall in love, get married, and realize their own life value with the help of the community.
In honor of the Basalia Act, the film "Yes, We Can" was released, which tells the story of a group of mentally ill people led by a wise administrator, Nilo, from staying in a mental hospital for a long time to repeat boring work, taking excessive doses of drugs, to setting up cooperatives to work like normal people, participating in market competition, earning income, falling in love and getting married, achieving a qualitative leap and gaining a new life. In the real world, there is indeed such a cooperative, this cooperative is good at laying patterned floors, the Noncero cooperative in Pordenone, is one of the many social cooperatives established after the passage of the law.
Today there are thousands of social cooperatives in Italy that provide jobs for more than tens of thousands of people with disabilities. "Yes, We Do" is not only a story, but also a deeper understanding and respect for the special group of "mentally ill".
The beginning of the work of the flooring cooperative
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The story takes place in a mental hospital in Italy. Patients in psychiatric hospitals used to eat, take medicine, sleep, and do repetitive welfare work, such as stamps, every day. They looked sick until a new person in charge came: an unemployed and reemployed Milanese businessman, Nilo. Their lives were shattered by the calm.
Nero knows how to respect others, treat them like colleagues, and get to know each other first, these patients include the somewhat neurotic Gijo who is easily angry, Fabio who likes the football father is a pilot, Luisa who likes to be called Miss Louisa, and the optimistic and smiling Mr. Godfredo, the irritable and irritable Ruby, Robbie who has autism and Miriam, who used to work at the racing track, Nikki Lauda, who worked at the racing track...
They repeat the work of welfare support every day, which does not expect them to produce benefits, and Nero inadvertently discovers that the seemingly misplaced stamps on the envelopes are specific patterns they have deliberately arranged.
Rupee excels at stitching patterns
"We are crazy, not stupid" --- this voice hidden deep in the hearts of patients in mental hospitals, finally someone can understand.
It turned out that God had closed one window, but at the same time he had pushed open another window for them. Nilo was surprised to find that although they had varying degrees of mental illness, they had clear consciousness and extraordinary ways of thinking. So he organized a meeting of members and voted on the topic of "abandoning the welfare route, going to the market, and doing the flooring work that may be messy but profitable." However, lead a team of depressed, manic, delusional, autistic, anxious, obsessive-compulsive, and affective control disorder patients to the floor.
The work of setting the floor was not easy, but under The Leadership of Nilo, it also made a name for itself in the market, creating an exclusive waste wood splicing floor. The so-called "waste wood cooperative" is that Nilo leads the members to buy the scrap for one-fifth of the price, but the price of the pattern that is spliced and inlaid by the members of the cooperative will be doubled, which is a very good job.
The mentally ill people voted
Waste wood, hidden deep meaning. Cooperative psychopaths we create everything out of scrap. Before this, they were "patients who were supported by the low welfare of society", they were regarded as waste wood, and they did not contribute to society, but they had thoughts, emotions, and concentration and creativity that were difficult for ordinary people to reach, and they used their creativity and action to transform waste into works of art and get a lot of money, which also proved their self-worth. After earning rewards through their own efforts again and again, their self-worth began to awaken, and little by little they were testing the direction of normal people's lives.
Therefore, in the mainstream measurement system, these mental patients are abnormal "waste wood", but in another measurement system, such as the field of mosaic flooring, they are geniuses. It can be said that the serious "abnormality" of ordinary people is just a "genius" who misplaced the value measurement system.
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Of course, society is not a utopia, and when the mentally ill are placed in the social environment, some problems are naturally exposed, which is also a topic that the film discusses: the boundaries of the freedom of life for mental patients and the issue of medical support. Nero tapped into their talents, but neglected the fragile weaknesses of their spiritual world. He was too idealistic and tolerant to ignore the fragility of the mental world of the mentally ill.
Although the mentally ill have come out, the society's cognition of this group cannot develop at the same speed in a short period of time, so the mental disorder is still an inexplicable scar. Most people are still afraid, nervous and incomprehensible when they get along with people with mental illness, and they don't know how to get along with them, and even laugh, ridicule, anger, and mental illness, so tragedy occurs.
Gijo, one of the members of the "threesome" who specializes in floor laying in the film, is young and handsome, and he falls in love with a beautiful female client in the process of laying the floor. But he had an embarrassing drawback: he vomited as soon as he was nervous, so he was emotionally nervous at the party because he was nervous and vomited on the spot. After being ugly and ridiculed in front of her crush and her friends, Gijo chose to commit suicide.
Gijo falls in love, but doesn't know the danger is approaching
Although subjectively speaking, people have more or less mental tension or abnormality, but objectively speaking, mentally ill people and normal people have a critical value for the ability to withstand stress, so it is an indisputable fact that mental patients are relatively more vulnerable, such as Gijo, who cannot resolve the complex and strong emotions brought to him by the scene of being hit at that time: sadness, anger, shame, so I can only resort to suicide, a hundred. Therefore, mentally ill patients in the social environment need relevant psychological professional care and psychological and social emergency response prevention.
Nero resigned
Nilo, on the other hand, bravely walked at the forefront of the dilapidated old and the new, acting subjectively, ignoring the important fact that the mentally ill are a special group. Mocking the weak and ridiculed the cold, cruel villains of the age of the dead, who are only about lifting the butcher's knife between them and the mentally ill; on the one hand, through the reality that Nilo is deeply immersed in self-blame and cannot extricate himself, who is not a potential mental disorder in this stressful life?
And this is the premise of the passage of the Basalia Act: the Italian psychiatrist Franco Basalia proposed that "treat patients mercifully, not make them irrational".
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Before the closure of the Italian psychiatric hospital, Nero was undoubtedly a brave person who dared to break the rules, but more often he just treated the mentally ill as a normal person, facing up to their inner desires, bitterness and advantages, discovering their shining points, and after experiencing some setbacks, he explored a better path, which brought about a qualitative change in the life and destiny of this group.
Nero firmly believed that every mentally ill person had an inviolable dignity and unique value, that everyone should be treated kindly, and that the belief that the dream of freedom could overcome the prejudices of society. Breaking with traditional practices, he made the following efforts:
1. Abandon welfare lines and establish cooperatives
2. Reduce the dose of the drug for mentally ill people
3. Discover the patient's talents and strengths
4. Help patients build confidence
He respects the dreams of patients and believes that patients can also prove their worth and talents with their own efforts and dedication, but they need to create opportunities for them, but they just need to constantly inspire and give people confidence. He "tolerates the shortness of people, the length of people", carefully discovers the shining points of each person, and arranges positions according to each person's strengths: people who are cautious are responsible for accounting, people with innovative ability and hands-on ability are responsible for splicing floors, and those who know how to pick up people and treat things serve as honorary presidents.
However, the road to success was not smooth, from the beginning of the first business to the final recognition of the market, Nilo paid silently, took on financial losses and pressures, constantly encouraged their confidence, accumulated experience, improved skills, and cultivated patience, until the two guys who liked to paste stamps indiscriminately created an artistic pattern of floor works from scrap. Employers are highly appreciative, and business is booming as fame goes viral.
If Gijo's death is not presented, the film is too idealistic, and Gijo's accident sublimates the theme.
Nilo could not have taken such a risk, in fact, after Gijo's suicide, he did fall into such self-reflection and guilt, especially since Gijo's mother had dissuaded him but his rejection had led to such a tragedy.
He is kind, sensitive, young but suicidal, which is the most painful and regrettable character in the whole play.
The dead are still alive in people's hearts, and the living people seem to be dead, and the guilt-ridden Nilo is so devastated that he has even given up all his efforts, until the other co-operative members retain him with longing eyes, and he is more aware of "responsibility" and "great love". He could let go and stay away from the place that made him sad. He can also fall and get up wherever he falls, and he can't let Gijo's sacrifice be wasted. True bravery and love is the courage to take on, not to be defeated by setbacks.
The progress and development of society, breaking the shackles and shackles, often require courage and responsibility. This is the brilliance of human nature, the great love of the world.
Thinking of Dr. Lin Qiaozhi, she once received a pregnant woman with various symptoms indicated as a malignant tumor, according to the process and expert consultation opinions, induction of labor, removal of tumor is the most secure way, but she does not, she consults a large number of literature at home and abroad, closely observes the clinical symptoms of pregnant women, she has not signed the diagnosis document for a long time, has not slept all night, and after tossing and turning, she has given her own diagnostic opinion: discharge, close observation, regular review. This diagnosis meant what kind of risk she knew. In the midst of her personal career and honorary reputation and the probability of happiness of this pregnant woman, she chose to put the happiness of pregnant women and the life of her baby first. If she fails, she will fall into the abyss of doom, but she just smiles at the pregnant woman with ease, understating but not knowing how much repeated deliberation has been experienced in her heart, based on the judgment of her own clinical experience. Until the baby was finally born smoothly, she was relieved.
In fact, she could have gone down this road without such painstaking effort. She could have spared herself from putting herself in such a dangerous situation, but she stood up bravely. It is precisely because of her boldness and bold speculation that "deciduous tumor" was written into the historical data of obstetrics and gynecology, saving countless babies after that. It is precisely because of this great love that there are countless lives and stories.
The mantra of the managers of these psychiatric cooperatives in Italy is "Promising." ”
Yes, promising. Yes, we can.
And all this begins with "love", love is fraternity, is great love, is the respect for human nature, respect for the individual.
Such a soul character can be seen in many movies.
Matthew, the school supervisor in "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", he walked into the middle of the problem teenagers, listened and guarded, discovered the musical talents of the problem teenagers, used love to influence the rebellion of the teenagers, rewrote the fate of a group of children, and cultivated a master musician;
Teacher Tang in "Hearing Heaven", respecting the "strange" creation of a blind child who has a talent for sound, encourages him not to give up his talent, and later becomes the most famous sound editor in the Italian film industry;
Dr. Carlauk in "The Autistic Journey", guiding, educating, respecting, digging up the girl with autism, Tianbao, eventually she received a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois, became an expert in the design and construction of livestock handling equipment and lectured around the world.
Superintendent Matthew, Teacher Tang, Dr. Carlork, Yes, and Nilo may not be the top successful people, but they have a pair of eyes and a heart of love that is good at tapping into the brilliance of human nature. It is precisely because of their great love that they have discovered the talents of these "abnormal" groups and achieved a counterattack life.