So, I recently discovered a channel on YouTube that covers some fucked-up (or at least controversial) movies called Rabbit Hole Entrance, and looking at two documentaries done on the channel, I'm reminded of the Social Darwinist attitudes the right has towards certain elements that aren't doing too well. There's a massive wealth disparity that means many people aren't even getting enough money to survive? Fuck em. It's their own damn fault for being lazy. Black people have a disproportionate amount of poverty and crime (whether actual or merely apparent because we police them more)? Well, 13/50! And these two documentaries seem to show what exactly ends up happening when you take people with serious problems and just don't even bother to help them.
The first one is a documentary called Til Madness Do Us Part, and it covers life in an asylum in China. People (either with actual mental disorders or people who just pissed off the PRC) are confined to a single floor of this dilapidated building. You might be expecting some real One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest shit here, but the reality is, it couldn't be any more different, and it's still terrifying. In this movie of about 228 minutes, the doctors only have about 5 minutes' worth of screen time. And this wasn't part of a decision by the filmmakers to focus more on the patients/inmates; the doctors pretty much only show up to give them their medication. And the rest of the day, they just let them fester in their own madness.
The second one is called Orozco the Embalmer, and it's probably one of the most disturbing documentaries ever made. Just to be safe, I've decided I'm not going to link to it. Hell, even if I did post the link, it'd just redirect to YouTube anyway, and they'd warn you that this is a very disturbing film before you actually watch it. As the title might have implied, it's about a man who makes his living embalming dead bodies. He lives in Bogota, Colombia, few years after Escobar was killed. Many die in the film, many of them are murdered, and many are just lying on the streets, because it's a neighborhood so crime-ridden that the police don't even bother to go in unless they're certain they can make an arrest.
And after watching these takes on documentaries I'll probably never watch in full, I find myself thinking "this is the world they want. A world where, instead of helping communities, we just write them off and presumably let them fester." Of course, maybe they wouldn't go as far as not even sending the cops in there. Where'd be the fun in that?
The first one is a documentary called Til Madness Do Us Part, and it covers life in an asylum in China. People (either with actual mental disorders or people who just pissed off the PRC) are confined to a single floor of this dilapidated building. You might be expecting some real One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest shit here, but the reality is, it couldn't be any more different, and it's still terrifying. In this movie of about 228 minutes, the doctors only have about 5 minutes' worth of screen time. And this wasn't part of a decision by the filmmakers to focus more on the patients/inmates; the doctors pretty much only show up to give them their medication. And the rest of the day, they just let them fester in their own madness.
The second one is called Orozco the Embalmer, and it's probably one of the most disturbing documentaries ever made. Just to be safe, I've decided I'm not going to link to it. Hell, even if I did post the link, it'd just redirect to YouTube anyway, and they'd warn you that this is a very disturbing film before you actually watch it. As the title might have implied, it's about a man who makes his living embalming dead bodies. He lives in Bogota, Colombia, few years after Escobar was killed. Many die in the film, many of them are murdered, and many are just lying on the streets, because it's a neighborhood so crime-ridden that the police don't even bother to go in unless they're certain they can make an arrest.
And after watching these takes on documentaries I'll probably never watch in full, I find myself thinking "this is the world they want. A world where, instead of helping communities, we just write them off and presumably let them fester." Of course, maybe they wouldn't go as far as not even sending the cops in there. Where'd be the fun in that?
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
