Movie |
Mind Control
Disclaimer: All content and media belong to original content streaming platforms/owners like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Videos, JioCinema, SonyLIV etc. 91mobiles entertainment does not claim any rights to the content and only aggregate the content along with the service providers links.
Crichton was fired from writing the screenplay due to the fact that his script did not follow the novel (which he had written) closely enough.
A favorite film of Stanley Kubrick's.
This film is prescient in many aspects of surgical technology that became commonplace in the years and decades after its release - the "spacesuit" operating helmets and gowns that would be common in orthopedic joint replacement surgeries, intraoperative CT scans coupled with stereotactic brain surgery, and electrode implants on and into the brain to treat epilepsy and other conditions.
The Hospital uniforms indicate the wearer's profession as a single letter on the collar: "D" for doctor, "N" for nurse, "T" for technician, etc. They are highly depersonalized in style, with only "dissenting" staff (Dr. Manon and Dr. Ross) showing any hint of individuality in work apparel.
Director Michael Hodges says that the work of painter Edward Hopper was an influence on the visual style of the film.
"Benson: [mumbles] Dr. John Ellis: [operating on Benson] What was that? Dr. Robert Morris: Patient. Dr. John Ellis: You all right, Mr. Benson? Benson: [groggily] Fine... fine... Dr. John Ellis: Any pain? Benson: No... Dr. John Ellis: Good. Just relax now. Benson: You too doctor..."
"Dr. John Ellis: [Finishing up a briefing to a large audience of doctors and nurses, prior to the operation that will be performed on Benson] We have performed this operation successfully on animals 57 times. This will be the first such procedure on a human being. Dr. Ezra Manon: [arising from his chair in the back of the audience] I'm grateful to Dr. Ellis that we are talking about a man, and not an animal. It seems to me that all the technical data, so skillfully expounded, is mere paper over the cracks. The patient is also a paranoid psychotic who is afraid of machines, and afraid that men will be turned *into* machines. Your operation may exaggerate these feelings. Dr. John Ellis: I understand the objection, Dr. Manon... Dr. Ezra Manon: [cutting him off] Let me finish! I frankly feel that if somebody stuck wires in my brain, and a computer in my neck, and an atomic battery in my shoulder, I'd wonder if *I* hadn't been turned into a machine. Dr. John Ellis: I see what you're saying... Dr. Ezra Manon: [cutting him off] Let me also remind you of the estimated 50 thousand pre-frontal lobotomies performed in the 1940s and 50s for all sorts of mental illnesses and brain diseases. They created an unknown number of human vegetables. Vegetables are easier for mental institutions to control. Dr. John Ellis: Well, now, this is *not* a lobotomy... Dr. Ezra Manon: [cutting him off] Those operations were also carried out by physicians who were too eager to act! And they were stopped not by Congress, nor the American Medical Association, nor the American Psychiatric Association, but by the development of new tranquilizing drugs. Dr. John Ellis: [Calmly and matter-of-factly] Mr. Benson has agreed to have this operation. [Dr. Manon, looking disgusted, says no more and sits down]"
