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We have ten thousand ways to live our lives and live up to them. Adapted from the true story of the Brazilian psychologist Nice in the 40s, the camera shakes a little, and it is dizzy to watch, and it is easy to integrate into the crazy world of psychopaths, but it is very touching.
A doctor who cures a schizophrenic patient with love and a doctor who treats a group of lunatics with violence depends on whether the patient can be successfully treated. Painting, raising small animals, going to nature are all the treatments of Nice, and schizophrenics express their subconscious through painting, and can draw amazing masterpieces, which is based on psychology.
Brazil's first film to be released in China, Nice Crazy Heart, was screened on Friday through the Theater Line of the National Alliance for the Screening of Arts Films. On the first day of release, I bought tickets through Maoyan to watch in Xinyuan Cinema, Hangzhou only had 40 shows a day, of course, and "Star Wars 8" was released on the same day, the schedule can be imagined, but this niche film and commercial film are completely two different moviegoers, and the attendance rate of Xinyuan that night is also good, indicating that art films have its fixed audience.
The story of "Nice Crazy Heart" takes place in 1944 at a national psychiatric medical center in Brazil, and Brazil in the 40s is not backward, and it is almost the same as it is now.
Nice returned to the psychiatric hospital where she had worked. At that time, the hospital used the internationally accepted "Moniz therapy", that is, the leukocerectomy invented by the Portuguese surgeon and Nobel Prize-winning Moniz in medicine, or the treatment of schizophrenia through electroconvulsive therapy, indicating that these therapies were quite effective. But Dr. Nice could not accept this violent treatment, so she was assigned to work in the less serious occupational therapy department.
There, Nice tries to use the therapy of love, she takes the patients to nature, feel the natural sun, the water, the birdsong, enjoy the breath of nature. She asked her assistant to bring tools such as paintbrushes, and let patients pick up paintbrushes to paint and make sculptures out of clay. She asked the patients to raise small animals and feel that each other was needed.
"Listen, observe, don't talk", this is Nice's approach to schizophrenia, allowing them to use the language of art to paint what they want to paint, to shape the work they want to shape, even if it is not common sense. Respect patients, do not stimulate them, soothe them with love, "love is the best therapy." We've heard this a thousand times, and Nice's story illustrates it, but love requires action, embodied in the details.
Through Jung's analytical psychology, Nice found the exact basis for his therapy. That is, by healing the soul of the patient, true healing is achieved.
In conflict with Nice's method is the leukotomy that is popular in psychiatric hospitals. This therapy is also mentioned in "Flying Over the Madhouse", but after the patient is performed this operation, he is no different from a wasteman and loses his memory of the past. Nice needs to confront a large group of people who believe in violence against the mentally ill. But Nice awakens her patients with love, and that's the best response to violent treatment.
Fernando, Imiti, Raphael, Adrina... The paintings drawn by these patients are amazing. There is only a line between genius and madness, and schizophrenics draw the subconscious mind into the painting, from which you can find clues as to why they are patients. At the beginning, these paintings are very abstract, drawing geometric shapes, and the most common is the circle, which is actually a way for them to communicate with people in another language and to reorganize life.
We can learn through this film that painting and the human subconscious have a very close relationship. Van Gogh was also considered a madman, and he used painting to express his heart, and painting was also an outlet for these crazy people to vent their emotions and calm them down.
So when Nice exhibited the paintings of these patients in the form of an art exhibition, the society caused a stir. In this way, these patients are reintegrated into society and regained their dignity.
The elderly Nice finally appears in the documentary, and she says a very moving sentence: "There are countless ways for people to live out their true selves and live up to their lives." "Mentally ill people should also be treated kindly and respected by society."
Golden sentences
People decide what garbage is, seeds are used to plant, seeds are not garbage.
I'm not crazy, I'm just caught in the frenzy.
I don't allow anyone to use violence here.
The most touching power of art is to show the deep subconscious of people.
We have ten thousand ways to live our lives and live up to them.