The whole film of "Nice Crazy Heart" is full of human brilliance, but it is not overly sensational. Adaptations of true events that add appeal and credibility to them. However, it is not a typical biographical film, and the handheld photography method relies on character performances to promote the progress of the story. The narrative is very smooth, the transition points are also very precise, and it can be seen that the director's technique is more mature. The first half feels very much like "Leaping Madhouse", and the blank space at the end gives people room to think.
1. I had a bad time in a mental hospital, doing electric shocks, and having troubles.
More than ten years ago, the neighbor's big mother was very kind and very enthusiastic. A few of our children, because they are all from elementary school, often play with her grandson Xiao Wang. When I went to Xiaowang's house to visit, my aunt saw us children and would give her candy. Later, when she became ill, she cried and made trouble, and the adults said that she was crazy, and their family sent her to a mental hospital. A year later, Grandma Xiaowang returned, but became sluggish. Later, when I grew up, I learned that my mother was called schizophrenia, and although she was cured, it left a strong side effect. Watching the movie, I suddenly remembered Xiao Wang's grandmother. Director Roberto Berliner also has a younger brother who is mentally ill, so his depiction of mentally ill people in the film is meticulous and vivid. The actors and the true psychopaths appear together to build this unique film. These mentally ill people, who may be kind and may be enthusiastic, are plagued by mental illness and become hysterical.
I remembered a sentence that went something to the effect of: "I had a good time in a mental hospital, I was happy every day, I was doing electric shocks, and I had no worries." "How can there be no worries?" In the 1940s, the Rio de Janeiro Psychiatric Hospital was not as humane as it is now. They are treated violently and they are brutally cared for. They were ridiculed, they were abused.
But these mentally ill people still have a talent for painting. They are also talented, they are also talented, and when they see these people painting, they can't help but think of Van Gogh. The indifferent people around them are directly or indirectly responsible for the death of the genius Van Gogh. Others laughed at him for being crazy, and when he died, they were proud to know him. The world always wondered how he died, but they didn't know how lonely and helpless he was when he lived. And these mental patients in the film, in their unfortunate lives, fortunately met Dr. Nice.
2. The brilliance of human nature and the awakening of feminist consciousness.
Most people's impressions of rio de Janeiro, Brazil, may come from the slums of "City of God" and the streets of "Elite Troops". "Nice Crazy Heart" presents a different Rio de Janeiro. The main story revolves around the new department of the Pedro II Psychiatric Hospital, which Dr. Nice joined. She's not pretty. Strong personality, even with a little stubbornness. But unlike the cruel and old-fashioned male doctors, she treats the mentally ill with respect, patience, and great human brilliance. Use gentle communication to soothe the patient's emotions. Use animal friends puppies to allow patients to gain friendship.
Other doctors in the hospital, too much emphasis on profit, feel that as long as they do whatever it takes to get patients discharged as soon as possible. A frontal lobotomy is performed and the patient becomes incomplete. Electric shock therapy has a strong damage to the patient's flesh. Dr. Nice's painting therapy, which is not understood by the world, has created a new and effective way of treatment. The patients' pictures are colorful and have a unique painting charm.
In Brazil in the 1940s, equality between men and women was not promoted very well. Female doctors are in the psychiatric department and belong to a minority group. Most male doctors, for Dr. Nice, have a sense of contempt and disdain. Dr. Nice's exploration of new therapies, the suppression of male doctors in hospitals, she defends her patients and rebels against the crude traditional system. Although he encountered: the killing of his puppy, the verbal attack of male doctors, the difficulties of the hospital and other unfair treatment, Dr. Nice still insisted on himself, and it was also the awakening of feminist consciousness.
3. I'm not crazy, I'm just caught in the madness.
There are three emotional lines in the film. The crazy brother fell in love with the painter intern, and he fell in love with each other for a long time and relied on each other. The little man falls in love with the fat girl, but the fat girl does not love him, but likes another crazy person. The painter's crazy brother, with his brother and sister-in-law, and a past love triangle story. These emotional cues, the role is obvious, let people understand their spiritual world, they also have emotional needs. One of the lines that struck me was: "I'm not crazy, I'm just caught in the madness."
This art film has a strong humanistic concern, touching and not excessively sensational. Whether it is a madman or an ordinary person, it will inadvertently hurt the person you love. For them, we must learn to understand and have compassion. Watching the theater line of the Art Union, thank you for this movie, so that you and I can understand these groups that are rarely contacted. There is only a line between genius and madness, and the two occasionally cross the line.