Understanding Aggression
English. Directed by Margaret Thomson.
This eye-opening drama-doc, set in a psychiatric hospital, was used to train student nurses and tells us much about evolving attitudes to mental illness. A progressive training tool in its time, it still feels sincere but also sensible and silly in about equal measure. The clinical need to clarify vies with the cinematic need to dramatise, reaching a feverishly literal extreme in scenes of a paranoid schizophrenic being pursued by a giant eye…
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Understanding Aggression runs 23 minutes (0h 23m).
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What movies are like Understanding Aggression?
If you liked Understanding Aggression, try One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Words on Bathroom Walls, Girl, Interrupted.
Who directed Understanding Aggression?
Understanding Aggression was directed by Margaret Thomson.