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To me, this movie is perfection.

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Redundant and unnecessary.

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

I saw this film while in college back in the 1970's and was amazed and disturbed. I think it was banned or hard to find at that time. My professor was able to get a copy. It is difficult to describe this documentary. It was sad, harshly realistic and horrific. This was how inmates/patients were treated, but again, it was the 1960's. They were likely using the same treatment methods since the 1920's. One interesting note, I met one of the patients who was in the film. He had been released and apparently was doing well enough. I'll not identify him because he was well known in his community. He remembered the filming, but did not know that he was famous for it. He has since passed away, but many people remember him fondly. If there can be a bright side to this film, I guess that's it.

Psychiatry is a dangerous pseudoscience cult that is the most destructive force humanity has ever seen. Governments support this abuse of human beings for power, profit, and degradation. If psychiatry continues and people do not put an end to it, history WILL repeat itself. The suffering and deaths will continue and families will be destroyed. Psychiatry MUST be stopped. It is a CULT.It is time to put an end to this dangerous pseudoscience and the psychiatric criminals who assault, abuse, innocent and vulnerable human beings. Psychiatrists must all be arrested and imprisoned for life for crimes against humanity.

Perhaps it was once viewed as shocking. Today it is neither disturbing nor life-altering. It seemed more like a boring, overdrawn examination of American smoking habits in the 1960's. This is considered a masterpiece? You want disturbing, go talk to a doctor, nurse, police officer, paramedic, or social worker who works in a large metropolitan city. They can help you learn what shocking really is.The real reason it was banned was because it was an embarrassment to Massachusetts. Things have changed.----SPOILER---- The rambling old men were amusing. Naked old men were not.

OK, the quality is pretty bad but it is watchable. I have been hoping to catch a bit-torrent of this film for the last two years. As of Sept 15 2006 is is up on Google Videos, just search Titicut. I can see a direct influence this film had on somebody that was involved with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Highly recommended. Like a different poster, the people that run this site feel a need for me to post 10 lines of text. I guess they like loquacious people at IMDb. Am I up to ten yet? If the people that make these absurd policies need work they would be well qualified for employment as guards and head-doctors at a mental hospital. Watch the movie Skippy and then look in a mirror. And cry, IMDb Skippy, cry.