Film · 20th Century · 1948
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The Snake Pit
60Watch it awake.
I left angry at the ward and unwilling to let anyone call her a case.
The review
The title is a room, the one where the sickest are kept, and I have not shaken it. A woman is committed to a state hospital. The ward is crowded. A doctor tries to reach her. Treatment then included methods a viewer will find harsh. I will not linger. She is a person, not a case. The system helps and it harms.
I kept wanting a clean hero or a clean villain, and the picture will not give me one. A public ward can be the place that reaches her and the place that packs her in with the worst of it. I would not put this on for a casual night. I also would not let anyone in the room talk about her as a diagnosis instead of a name.
Journal
Keep The Snake Pit in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
High Noon
74 instead of 60
High Noon is still a drama film, and it scores 74 instead of 60. What you gain is courage: He walks the street alone.
The eight
- 7Industry
A doctor in a state hospital does the work of trying to reach her.
- 3Household
The life on screen is a woman in a ward, not a family at home.
- 6Piety
One doctor will not leave her as only a case in a crowded ward.
- 6Courage
She has to stay a person in the room kept for the sickest.
- 8Republic
The state hospital is a public duty, and it both helps and harms.
- 5Temperance
Harsh methods of the era are present, and the film does not gloat.
- 8Truth
The title names the worst room, and she is never only a case.
- 5Stewardship
What remains is a system that can reach a woman and can pack a ward.
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