Revealing

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2011)

I remember when I first watched this movie as a kid, at my friend's house, how much it revealed to me about mental health facilities and the inhuman treatments and abuse many patients used to face.
Now, rewatching it I am able to grasp some of the more subtle points that I may have missed as a child, such as chaos versus order, and inside (inside the hospital) versus outside (outside the hospital). These themes are shown throughout the film, specifically pertaining to showing chaos vs. order. One specific scene pits the chaos within the facility against the order of the facility, the nurses, using classical music to create order among the chaos. Of course, as it happens, the classical music fails to create order, instead it plays loudly over top the chaos adding to it.