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AKA: Feng Ai
Directed by: Wang Bing
Starring: –
Country: China
Language: Mandarin (English subtitles)
Runtime: 03:48:25
Genres: Documentary, Mental Illness-Depressing, Family, Pissing
Plot – Spoilers:
A 4-hour documentary filmed in a Chinese mental institution. Director Wang Bing restricts himself to its top floor, housing the male inmates, though there are a couple of breaks including one where he follows an inmate’s return home.
As a viewer, we are aware of the camera exploiting the inmate’s days. And all sorts of questions will pop up – how did the makers get the inmates to not interact with them or the camera despite the patients constantly being aware of their presence. Discarded footage notwithstanding.
Wang Bing’s mastery is such that, after a while, he becomes inanimate and you slowly start to see only a camera following them. And if you immerse yourself further, even that melts away.
Scenes where the inmates interact with family are poignant, while there are others that are unwittingly darkly humourous. ‘Til Madness Do Us Part will either seem a purposeless, boring exercise or rank among the greatest things you have ever watched. It helps if you have a bit of a voyeur, or some mad, or know someone who’s ill.
Going in to a 3 hour and 48 minute film about a Chinese mental institution I had a good idea of what I was about to see; a lot of boring stuff punctuated by memorable moments of insanity. I thought there would be a lot more fighting and violence but the “doctors” run a pretty strict camp and frown upon disturbances. A newer “patient” found out the hard way after he became belligerent and ended up getting the shit beaten out of him and handcuffed for an extended period of time, causing him severe discomfort and grief. By the time they took the handcuffs off he was well past the point of fucking around again. The “hospital rooms” look like the jail cells at The Hanoi Hilton and must smell terrible with all the pissing going on. One inmate, with a case of insomnia, pisses on his bedframe, wipes the piss up with a towel and scrubs it deep in to his face. Then he does some ritual for 10 minutes with his pillow before he finally falls asleep. Later, the same inmate gets a double zap of Thorozine or some other powerful stimulant and vegges out for about 15 minutes, all captured on film. I wasn’t sure if it was a “once you’re in you never get out” situation but the cameramen follow an inmate for a few days that was released from the bean farm after 11 years. His homecoming wasn’t what you would call a celebration. His… Read more »
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The guy in red jacket is McMurphy
Genuinely one of the scariest and depressing films I’ve ever seen, and probably one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. At first when you actually get into the film it starts to metaphorise as a film, but then when it ends you realise, ‘Holy shit this was actually real’. I’ll probably never rewatch this.
Strange there is a similar doc on youtube called Inmates (2017) directed by Li Ma that is an hour longer than this one. The conditions there are nicer, I guess they have more money. Worst part is white subtitle hardcoded since the background is light so it’s harder to read and they even all wear the same light pajamas
mental illness is so funny
Has to be one of the most inspirational films for me on this site personally. Such a grim depiction of hopelessness in a setting where there’s so much of hopelessness that there’s actually none.
Greatest film of al time!!!!
Have to be mentally retarded yourself to sit through 4 hours of this crap.
This was heartbreaking, the conditions and overcrowding are a cruel reality in overpopulated countries.
Spoiler alert: Gratuitous amounts of standing up on cots. By the time the film’s over, you could almost swear half the scenes involved standing up on a cot in one way or another.
Deepest thanks for the new movie admins, for I most likely would’ve never heard of it otherwise. Ironic in that a documentary with zero violence would end up being the best film thus far on your site, imo.
A triumph of the Direct Cinema style capturing the essence of the human condition. The inmates peace, sympathy, understanding, and goodwill towards one another shine through the truly abysmal setting, where you’d think there’d be none, ever. My simple words cannot give justice to this profound film, so I won’t try. A solid 10/10